Gregory's Server@AlexanderKingsbury @FisherPeter @Radical_EgoCom not at all, that's the point, although I'm talking strictly about economic misery, not existential suffering, if that's what you mean.
Misery as in not having access to housing, healthcare, education and food could already have been extinguished with what we actually produce nowadays. Shortage is fabricated as a side effect of the offer and demand that governs the economy (which is run by the owners of the means of production). Excess production is wasted while people are hungry to keep prices up and profit possible, and the same thing goes for unoccupied houses, which become assets while people live in the streets.
@Homempovo @FisherPeter @Radical_EgoCom
That's not the point. Capitalism simply says that taking a certain approach optimizes the distribution of scarce resources. WE decide what "optimum" means. And one of the great things is that we can come to different answers but still work together to achieve those disparate goals.