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Not really, Capitalism have also been observed to do its thing without democracy as well. And just moving forward is a pretty low bar, the USSR had lots of progress as well, but it doesn't make Stalinism a good system. It's also fundamentally a correlation, not causation. Would another historical path had a better outcome for the average citizen? Maybe, maybe not.
> Prove it. What is this 80%?
Slavery? Racism? Colonialism? Property requirements to vote? Women suffrage? Supporting brutal regimes in the name of corporate profit? Famine while still exporting? Exploitation fueled by Capitalism's profit and growth motive? Climate and ecological disaster? People dying in the US due to lack of healthcare access? etc...
> Name them and describe how and why.
Come on, you're the one preaching, it's your duty to prove your extraordinary claim against history. Capitalism is like 400 years old. A mere blip. Native American's societies for example thought of people being forced to wage labour their entire life for someones else's enrichment to be not much better than being a slave. Certainly not "freedom" in any case. Not to even mention their thoughts about the concept of private ownership of the commons, as in private property.
> I provided explicit examples and illustrated consistency across time and geography. Hand wavy dismissals aren't doing your argument any favors.
What explicit examples?
Prove it
> the USSR had lots of progress as well, but it doesn't make Stalinism a good system
Not morally or ethically, which I'll remind you, yet again is what we're talking about. Stay on topic
>Slavery? Racism? Colonialism? Property requirements to vote? Women suffrage? Supporting brutal regimes in the name of corporate profit? Famine while still exporting? Exploitation fueled by Capitalism's profit and growth motive? Climate and ecological disaster? People dying in the US due to lack of healthcare access?
Prove the causative relationship between these things and capitalism, and that they make up 80% of capitalism's history, your original assertion. Why did they exist before capitalism?
Why did many of these good things fail to happen before capitalism? Why do they happen virtually everywhere afterwards?
Capitalist countries are the most ecologically and climate efficient per capita and quality of life.
Exploitative compared to what and where?
Examine severe illness outcomes, pharmaceutical research, medical innovation, and general health of the US (meaning, US citizens have bad health habits) vs elsewhere before you make such ignorant comments.
>Come on, you're the one preaching, it's your duty to prove your extraordinary claim against history. Capitalism is like 400 years old.
Which is why it's remarkable how much progress has occurred under it in such a short period of time, literally my point
>Native American's societies for example thought of people being forced to wage labour their entire life for someones else's enrichment to be not much better than being a slave. Certainly not "freedom" in any case. Not to even mention their thoughts about the concept of private ownership of the commons, as in private property.
You continually speak authoritatively about subjects you clearly do not have any insight into. Native Americans practiced slavery & conquest. Native Americans had private property. They also hadn't invented the wheel and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people a year on top of pyramids. You're regurgitating well known popular myths. Stop deviating off topic
>What explicit examples?
China under Pooh's new crackdown on private property and capitalist tendencies vs it when it opened and extended private property rights. Estonia post-USSR. Zimbabwe vs Botswana. Just a few, modern ones, if we want to go back to the 18th and 19th century the trend was nearly universal in the west.