Comment by ajmurmann

Well, selfish capitalism has lifted countless people out of poverty, brought wealth that was unimaginable a hundred years ago, extended life-expectancy and so much more. Meanwhile many, if not most, atrocities at scale have been driven by some misguided sense of moral virtue. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, even Hitler were all driven by misguided values or misguided solutions driven by a derailed moralistic system. Then of course we have all the terrible stuff done in the name of religion to appease some higher power. While capitalism of course isn't perfect and causes harm at times, it's sanity impossible to commit atrocities on the scale that "doing good" will frequently do.