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And yet you're writing this from a stupidly complex computer made by capitalistic economic system. Oh the irony.
Capitalism actively and consistently stifles progress and research. Success in spite of capitalism is not proof of capitalism's success, you look silly making that claim in isolation.
"You despise the system yet you continue to exist within it, curious..."
If you read past the first part of the first sentence of the first paragraph of my comment you may have had a chance to read this thing I said as well:
Weird, I thought electrical engineers designed those computers but it turns out it was capitalism, because as we all know engineers only exist within a capitalist framework.
Computers were a cap--oh, wait.
The Internet was--oh wait.
Satellites were--oh dang.
I guess shitty profiteers capitalizing on subsidized or even fully government-funded inventions is what that commenter means by capitalism.