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Except that someone putting capital up is looking to maximize their return. Obviously they want more back than what they put in. Given endless greed, you have a feedback loop where they put less and less in while getting more and more back. Those improper regulations are caused by those same people paying to prevent regulations or to have those regulations work in their favor.
The Soviet Union was not a communist country because the means of production were not owned by the workers but instead by the state. The state being made up of a few privileged individuals who were the greedy bastards of that system.
Greed is not inherent to humans, that's just a lie sold to you by the greedy. I'm happy with what I've got and I'm not looking to collect mansions, yachts, trips to space, etc. Most people are fine with a modest lot in life and don't relentlessly pursue unhealthy amounts of wealth. It's a sickness.
You can keep putting in less and less until the system breaks. This is what we're seeing now. Cracks manifest in the form of gross wealth inequality (i.e. massive power imbalance) and all the consequences that entails. These greedy sickos will push the system to the limit and give back as little as they can to maintain power.
Pretending that your assertion is correct that communism always fails and that it's because of greed, that still doesn't mean greed is inherent in humans. All it takes is a few bad actors to ruin any system, if given enough power. Capitalism is failing right before our eyes due to this tiny minority of billionaires and capitalism had already failed due to a tiny minority of super wealthy in the past before it was rescued in response to mass protests that threatened revolution.
Speaking of salvaging terrible things, the wealthy used to build hospitals and libraries only as part of reputation laundering. They will do nothing unless they feel threatened. You're focusing on tech in particular, but it's a feature inherent in the ultra-wealthy. They will do only enough to save themselves and continue holding their position of power, otherwise they continue pushing limits.
Virtually everything Freud thought up has been debunked. He's influential in the field because he was early.
Capitalism is working quite well at its intended purpose of transferring wealth to the capitalists, but it's not working for everyone else. It's been an issue before the naked money-grabbing "inflation" of the pandemic, it's just become even more apparent now. The insane wealth difference was already insane prior, it's just gotten even more insane.
If it can't be debunked then it's pseudoscience. Science requires a hypothesis be falsifiable. The quality of life in America is beaten by several countries. Take a look at any quality of life ranking. Here are a few: https://www.worlddata.info/quality-of-life.php https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-of-living-by-country https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp
The US doesn't crack top ten in any of these. Look at life expectancy: https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?most_recent_value_desc=true
Asking for a country that "isn't capitalism" is a trick question because a lot of these quality of life improvements come from socialist policies.
This was your claim and I debunked it very easily. Do you think government-provided healthcare is capitalism? The US does spend a lot of money, but that doesn't prove anything other than the US having a lot of money.
I've offered rankings based on metrics, you've just offered your opinion, but somehow you think others are arguing based on feelings. People trying to move to the US just means places that are worse exist. No one is arguing against this. What part of government-provided health care is capitalism?
Economics and politics are tightly intertwined. Economics is essentially how resources are distributed.
Okay, so by your definition, government-provided healthcare is not "people take money and start businesses" thus the quality of life increases are not attributable to capitalism.
You're giving too broad a definition to capitalism. I'm curious to know what you consider communism.