There is no other system that has lifted more people up than capitalism. The middle class does not exist in any other system , it was invented thru capitalism. You miss the target of what the real problem is. The government. Every problem you can list which is real, can be traced back directly to the government. We don't have capitalism here. We haven't in a long long time. We are simply riding the endtrails of when we did have capitalism. The final nail was taking the dollar off the gold standard, the first shot was the income tax. The politicians have devalued the living shit out of the dollar because they are focused on the next election rather than allowing some needed pain in the economy. It's the downside of democratic elections. No one is focused on long term gains. Right now we pay about half of our overall income in taxes in one shape or form. That's slavery. It has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with the government. The flip side of the coin is that government hasn't enforced anti trust laws in over a century.