The capitalist economy has a potentially fatal ignorance of two subjects. One is the nature of money. The other is the nature of life. This ignorance leads us to trade away life for money, which is a bad bargain indeed. The real nature of money is obscured by the vocabulary of finance, which is doublespeak.
Money is a number.
Real wealth is in food, fertile land, buildings, or other things that sustain us. If in the 1980s we witnessed capitalism's triumph over communism, in the new millennium we may witness capitalism's triumph over life. For in the vocabulary of capitalism, the destruction of life to make money is progress. I favor a real market economy not centrally planned by governments or corporations. The vital distinction here is between the market economy Adam Smith had in mind, and the capitalist economy, which he would have abhorred.