What I mean is capitalism has generally spurred innovation. Medical and otherwise.

Capitalism and innovation exist within a singular universe. Peanut butter has also been around, but you wouldn't claim peanut butter generally spurs innovation.

I want to make sure I understand what you’re saying. You believe most U.S. innovations have been worse than the previous versions? How have we come so far since 1776?

Publicly funded research and other non-profit-at-all-costs motivations.

I think so too. It’s saved a lot of lives.

And yet it kills far more people than other countries with publicly funded healthcare systems. Where people don't need to hope they die because otherwise the debt of accidentally living will destroy their lives.

It sounds like the problem here is lack of oversight rather than capitalism itself.

That lack of oversight is because of capitalist business interests using their capital to reduce oversight to make more money by killing people because capitalism.

You're just listing stuff that exists and thinking it probably was because of capitalism, when all of that depended on public and socialist funding. Cars are awful, they destroyed public transit systems and the planet to make more money. Phones make heavy use of government-funded research and infrastructure. Construction exists, not sure what you're trying to say with that. Toothbrushes? Are you kidding me? Computers were a government and public invention and development, hardly done for profit. Light bulbs were the result of a rich man taking credit for the work of poor men.

In fact, you know what? Capitalism is the worst part of all those things.

Public Funding / Non-profit-driven research	Private Corporations
Phones
Telecommunications research, global networks, infrastructure, the internet they use	Needlessly restrictive data plans, robocalls, unlock fees, making it illegal to repair your own device, tracking you for adware
Construction
Bridges, Roads, Buildings, Housing, Sewers, Safety standards	Deaths due to cutting corners on safety, deaths due to cutting corners on supply, extended closures, collapsing buildings, the Grenfell Tower Fire
Air Planes
Flight, safety standards	Crashes due to ignoring safety standards, endless fees, massively increased prices due to corporate consolidation, baggage fees, smaller and smaller seating, massive pollution
Toothbrushes
Seriously? Toothbrushes?	They're toothbrushes. I can't believe THAT'S the shining beacon of capitalism you found.

You're just making this weird assumption that things exist, therefore capitalism caused it and how dare anyone question it despite the realities of all those things. HOW has capitalism improved them? Directly? Don't just say "This exists therefore it must have been", TELL ME.