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Of course there isn't. Capitalism guarantees no such system is allowed to exist.

But capitalism is based on jam today and famine tomorrow.

This works just fine for people - as long as they're not thinking straight.

Intelligent resource allocation understands that famine ten years from now is a bad thing and should be avoided, even if it means lower short-term profits.

Any system that thinks ahead like that would be much more innovative than capitalism, because it would be able to make long term plans and invest in long term projects with pay-off times measured in decades or even centuries - something capitalism is manifestly unable to do.

It would also be better at avoiding the usual capitalist kooky idiocies like poisoned water tables, avoidable drought, accidental anti-terraforming, and the rest.



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