with or without regulations, capitalism is unsustainable to begin with. its raison d'être is reinvestment for accumulation, with compounded interest that leads to exponential growth, which is incompatible with a finite anything (world, solar system, galaxy, universe, whatever). so it's not reasonable to stay put to begin with, we're not at a stable or desirable place no matter how much you wish it were so. that it requires regulation to function for a bit, confronted with the reality of corporations having grown big enough to control the national states into deregulation, only aggravates the impossibility of the present situation.

I do worry that you seem to prefer to *prevent* others from even trying different arrangements, because *you* don't believe it could work, than giving them a fair chance. that's scarily authoritarian to me. not surprising, coming from someone who supports capitalism with all its horrors, but still... maybe the mistake is trying to start with socialism. marx himself criticized socialism and alerted to its dangers. it's not an end goal, but maybe it doesn't even have to be an intermediate stop. maybe we don't know the destination. all I know is that with the current system we're all screwed very soon, so we'd better try different arrangements quickly before it's too late, and maybe it already is. the reality of techno-feudalism is not a distraction, it's real, dangerous, but maybe also a potential path onto something better.