JumpyWombat

Of course there were the seeds because systems do not appear overnight, but that was not the Capitalism as we intend it today.

The right direction would obviously be socialism with public ownership of the means of production and an economy being directed towards meeting the needs of working majority as opposed to a handful of elites.

So communism.

Not that I dislike the idea in principle, it's just that it didn't work well.

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.

Finally someone reasonable here!

Sooner or later Capitalism will be replaced by a new -ism that will be the new best system possible, and that future generation will blame anyway with idiotic memes.

It's just in the nature of things.

Are you saying that since now only part of the world is starving, it was better in the medieval age when everyone was starving?

Not sure what point you’re even trying to make here. Life expectancy has been improving due to science and technology improving.

In the XV/XVI century there was the equivalent of the Palestinian genocide, but scaled up to the entire surface of America, north+south. How can you tell that it was better then?

That's not what OP implies when he says that capitalism only existed for 1% of recorded history.

I'm not claiming that capitalism improved life expectancy, but that in 99% of recorded history people died horribly very easily and at a very young age.

If you want to stay political, feudalism is a great example of glorious non-capitalistic system. You could starve to death because your crop had been taken by the lords or die hanged to a tree because you complained, but the system did not do considerable harm to the environment!

What's the problem with my example? Roman Empire qualifies for "recorded history".

Do you prefer more recent times like 1800? Life expectancy comparable to the roman period, but the main causes of deaths were tuberculosis, pneumonia, cholera, and diarrhea. Yes, you can die of diarrhea.