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Well, economic system is flawed because mutated ape is flawed. It's all flawed everything is flawed.
That's not a particularly useful statement, that's more nihilism. That kind of rhetoric leads to conclusions like "if everything is flawed, why fix it?" Instead of "how are systems flawed, and how can we overcome them?"
I definitely never claim to be an optimist. But I didn't argue that either. I was just commenting on the inherent fallibility of anything created by humans, since we seem to have an annoying habit of thinking that whatever human-created systems we like are somehow endowed with divine purpose and will never fail us. The great invisible hand of the market, and all that.
Nobody believes that, though, you're punching ghosts.