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OP doesn't say that an older system was better - especially not some super-specific one. Just that it's NOT the only possible system and likely not the best there can be.
So I'm not sure who exactly you're arguing with.
I'm arguing that if you lived in any of the previous systems, you would have dreamt to live in today's Capitalism because it is the first system that produced a world where a large portion of humanity lived a safe and happy life.
It doesn't mean that Capitalism is perfect. It's just the best system so far.
Waiting for OP to tell us what should come next.
Correlation != Causation
As others have pointed out we have better lives today because of scientific and technological progress not because of capitalism.
Progress that did not happen at the same rate in non-capitalistic societies.
You're right, USSR managed to accomplish an equivalent of a century of progress under capitalism in the west in a couple of decades.