[Ghexor]

I'm curious, do you have a counterpart to "capital" and "property" in your analogy?

I think capitalism facilitates specialization - and that quite effectively at scale. Specialization can occur without capitalism, too. There are other systems to coordinate specialists.

[capitalsigma]

Of course -- just look at all of those successful centrally planned economies throughout history that definitely did not regularly subject their population to famine