>>53356657>Maximizing overall wellness is only possible by putting ethics above efficiencyThis statement doesn't make sense.
In truth economics is an amoral science to begin with that when applied becomes ethical insofar as countries regularly want to provide the best lives for their citizens. There's just very little intersection between the two beyond a handwaved notion that you'd want people to be well.
In the context of this discussion for instance saying capitalist country killed 150000 people but communist country killed 60000 means capitalism as a system is worse is laughably naive and obfuscates a number of issues in favor of ones irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The organization of private industry or the public sector itself does not kill people or is "evil". You may have bad actors within certain frameworks but that isn't an argument for or against anything other than the bad actors themselves.
This is also why Marx framed the Communist Manifesto in terms of rationality and eventual outcome of capitalism through analyzing patterns, as opposed to modern day pundits who advocate through ethics as a way of appealing to laymen. That's why this thread is talking about good vs evil, by the way, it's because it's easier for people to understand and join a cause over, not because ethics play a genuinely important role in theory.
