Capitalism is not the best economic system for the modern world. Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and the operation of goods and services for profit. Therefore, in a society that aims for cash flow is no necessary the best economic system in modern day.

Yes, capitalism does lift people out of poverty, but that doesn't mean other economic systems don't do the same thing. Socialism, communism, and mixed economy all can achieve the same goal of lifting people out of poverty, but the difference between capitalism and ones I mentioned is that capitalism can cause extreme inequality in wealth. From the World Inequality Report of 2026, they found that the top 10% makes up about 75% global wealth, where as the bottom 50% barely holds 2% of the global economy. This is what capitalism does, creates huge inequality in wealth. The difference in wealth doesn't only impact in people's wages, it also impacts inflation in housing markets, food, general wellbeing and even causes macroeconomic growth. Therefore, capitalism creates issues beyond one's self. A question that should be answered is why capitalism is the best engine even with all the flaws, is it because it lifts people out of poverty, or is it simply better because it benefits people with wealth. But both, as covered earlier, can be resolved simply by changing the economic system to another. My opponent did acknowledge that capitalism isn't perfect, and that there can be fixes, but what would be the fix, and how would that be different from what is already is?

I agree with what my opponent had brought up, capitalism gives people what they want. Yet they still ignored the fact that inequality is what stops people from what they want or even what they need. If a 100 dollars is shared upon a 10 people that all had different roles, would you say one deserves more than the other. Of course not, because a team is where people work together to achieve a shared goal, and it wouldn't be a team if one do not rely on another. So inequality shouldn't exist. A point that my opponent had brought up company fixes flaws of their product to win customers. But the report from f7i showed that in physical operations, only 2-3% of the total budget is used to "fix flaws" or maintenance. So no, company do not aim to fix flaws in their product, they still aim to make profit and keep that in their pockets, no giving what people what they want. Lastly, tax regulations for business owners have severe loopholes that funds the inequality in the society. A great example for tax loopholes would be American business owners. American business owners can reduce their tax from hiring family members, getting LLC permits, even multi-year operations as business expense to write of on their tax payment, and much more ways to reduce their tax. I understand it may just be the case for America, but they are also the country with the highest GDP in the world right now. So I would say that the "steering" isn't really working out for capitalism, and changing the system just might be the way.