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Have you seen the behavior of parties captured by the capitalist end of the political spectrum? They very much are not the rational actors trying to preserve their own income by keeping consumers alive. If they were they would try to optimize consumer health and spending money instead of aiming for highscore-like accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few that can't spend it on anything meaningful any more anyway because they can already afford everything that could meaningfully improve their life a million times over.
Or, facing conditions where it can no longer do this, it will boil off into fascist autocracy, which seems to be where we're headed.
It looks more like people have to fight a constant battle to keep capitalism in check because capitalism itself is incapable of rational behavior and just does the same things to optimize profits regardless of consequences for any other indicators.