At this point in my life I just want to see an evolved version of capitalism, we are stuck with the bullshit from the 80s/90s being milked dry from any progress it could have generated. It's over, we need something else for the fucking 2020s.
A survey of social/political/economic history (even just post-1800) shows that capitalism, as a system, strongly resists 'evolution', and over time erodes those gains which have been made against it.
When people talk about their dream for an 'evolved capitalism' it often comes down to New Deal America plus free healthcare. Yet even setting aside how the post-WW2 economy was a singular moment that we cannot hope to recapitulate, you have to ask: if we _had_ this, and everyone thought it was great, why did we give it up? Or rather, why was it taken away from us?
This is the second fork of 'why not capitalism'? The first -- that capitalism, left to its own devices, produces increasingly terrible ('misaligned') results, is not enough. The second -- that capitalism, as a system of power distribution, strongly incentivizes people to work against any attempts at regulating it, and indeed to roll back those regulations -- is what cinches the issue.
The same system with different people at the top isn't an evolution of the system, it's the same system with different people at the top.
Like, if I take HTTP and then change the port number to 8080 (lower layer change), or use it to host interactive videos (higher layer change), it's not an evolution of HTTP, it's still just HTTP.
