Tink, here is a concern; and I am definitely not an expert but I know from experience in other areas that there is a certain thought process I use which can turn out accurate...
It could be that capitalism is indeed, as Marx suggested, right now in the process of collapsing (at least in the USA). FDR bailed out the middle class and kept it going...but in 2008, Obama administration did not do that. Many of the "collapse" mechanisms are apparently still in place. I'm not sure you can maintain capitalism (or even a democracy) without a strong middle class.
When I was evicted in 2015, I assumed it was just one 'rogue' corporation, and that by standing up to it I had done my part. But when I began googling early 2017, huge dismaying surprise, the rogue I had encountered was systemic.
I think Bret Weinstein (Evergreen guy) saw the universities as a place to build rational process for enlightenment kinds of change...but he ran into the "snowflake mentality," PC movement and other bizarre left-wing trash...so I do have a concern about what/who will get "vomited up" if capitalism cannot make its corrections timely...
I do think we will eventually do the "right things" you mention, but can we do it in time? Can we do again the enlightenment process by which USA Founding Fathers engendered a remarkable democracy? Socialism I cannot find the answer there...although more worker-owned co-ops, on the order of Mondragon, will prolly help...but humankind needs immense space for individual innovation creativity...
N'Kay, 8 AM here on the raincoast, and you just got the whole morning lecture, I am worried...