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I would argue that the main problem of capitalism is "encouraging inequality". Like with "Monopoly", capital is used to bring existing systems out of sync.

Even with a completely local, independent economy (e.g. a village with farmers, craftspeople, bakers, butchers), capital allows you to either expand your business or lower your prices, driving competition into ruin, then have a de-facto monopoly that you can use to raise prices and accumulate more capital.

(This is of course a toy example. Large economies work... worse?)

In my opinion, exhausting resources is simply an easy way to maximize profit. Which is why I think that using any kind of non-renewable, non-recyclable resource should be too expensive for any company.

In that regard, bitcoin is actually a pure form of capitalism: Burning resources to create meaningless numbers.