That said, the system that affords the most self-determinism, liberty, and ability to benefit from your own efforts as an individual will always be preferable to any other.
The world moves forward on the creativity, efforts, and virtue of individuals, not by the achievements of the collective. The collective is almost always left behind.
This isn't about relative worth of people. Everyone is important and everyone matters. It's about allowing each of us as individuals to become our best and achieve our most. This is the best path to obtain the biggest contributions from all of us.
There is only one economic system that allows this. Capitalism. Whether good or bad things happen along the way is not a function of the economic system, but a function of the failings of individuals spiritually, morally, and ethically - as I think this author is saying. I agree entirely.
As a mirror of our current society, just over the past 2.5 years we've had a true coup attempt against a duly elected American President, the ‘buy your test scores and admission into the college of your choice’ scandal, the legislature of a large US state passing a law allowing infanticide, subversion of justice by political connections in the Hillary Clinton private server debacle, the Jussie Smollett case, cases of ‘youths’ beating defenseless older adults and the elderly, etc., etc. When these things are happening, a society has a very big problem with rot, and laws alone, or an economic system alone, won't be enough to fix it.
Well said. I am passing along what you wrote.