I actually appreciate your point and those of all similar commenters. I think what bothered me is that a criticism as diffuse as “the system“ is without value because it means everything and nothing.

It also seems not to acknowledge that “the system“ has produced enormous medical and economic advances right along with the many destructive forces it has unleashed. For example, poverty is massively reduced since I was a kid. That is almost completely due to free market forces applied by “the system“.

Please understand I am not trying to defend “the system“ as a whole. I am simply trying to say that a blanket derogation of it does no one any good.

I bow to you, you say it in the most simple of words.