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That may not be your motive, but it most certainly is the consequence of "bringing it back to the middle". There is no future is capitalism
With the right regulations in place we can continuously find more ways to prevent or at least slow down the consolidation of wealth and therefore power.
Consolidation of power is the enemy ultimately, and the problem is no matter what the system is, power tends to eventually consolidate due to human nature. The success of capitalism isn't that it's perfect, far from it. It's that it results in a much slower consolidation of power than other systems
It's slowness is it's most effective and insidious trait. It ingrains itself into a society, with promises of "this is healthy if we just let it be". Which is clearly not the case.
If most positives from it involve it having to be shackled entirely by regulation to constrain its most definable traits, it is not a good thing. It is just exploitable.
I'd still rather have that than a system that immediately becomes a dictatorship. I just don't think there is a perfect system if it's going to be run by dumb selfish humans. AI could maybe take a crack at it though, idk
So don't support dictators :)
I don't :)
Yet you support capitalism, which is a dictatorship of capital over people.