Soul Fly— the misunderstandings come from my leaving a bunch of terms without definitions or the reasons behind them.
Hoever, capitalism is so far the fittest state in that it has survived— and there are still things we can do to government to make it work better, most notably around campaign finance reform and ethics.
Wisdom v Intelligence— I am borrowing wisdom as used by the liberal evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein in how he describes successful designs from evolution. Creatures such as Sharks and Dragonflies that have long survived selective pressures are not intelligently designed, but the design carries wisdom compared to creatures with less evolutionary history. Whenever there is reproduction, variation, selective pressures, there will be evolution— and while none of these designs that are “fit” are perfect, they can be marvelously effective and efficient.
Capitalism doesn’t require human intelligence to be perfect in decision making for production— it only requires that the human wisdom that emerges organically through many transactions going through selective pressure to move steer markets in a generally productive direction.
Capitalism depends on the type of wisdom a dragonfly has. Individual humans are better at the wisdom required by capitalism than the intelligence required to plan a whole market.
I disagree with all of this, it is astoundingly naive and if you ever thought one of my posts were confusing then note how mixed the metaphors are here. It veers into complete self-contradiction at the end, I find it hard to believe you understand any of the concepts you mention.
In the first place, if capitalism has been the fittest species
so far that remains entirely contingent: if corporate-willed climate change and/or nuclear war make the entire planet uninhabitable there will be no capitalists governments and it will be clear all along that, although it may have been inevitable, capitalism was fatally flawed: 'capitalist intelligence' must always be intent on the reproduction of a hierarchy, instead of the survival of the human species or any of its members. When faced with crises whose possible consequences are the destruction of the entire species (and thus the capitalist system), capitalist systems' intelligences continue to be geared solely towards reproducing hierarchies even if the cost of that is indeed the loss of the entire species. The 'end of the world' becomes a zero-sum game that might be 'won', if everyone else only loses more.
Your metaphor is frustrating because by referring to capitalism as a species of government you obfuscate the fundamental way in which a capitalist system does not value the preservation of any human species members and further, the way in which industrial capitalism has actually destroyed the ecology of the the earth to the extent that it will inevitably lead to the end of intelligent capitalist life on earth due to mass extinction and or nuclear holocaust. (note: industrial communism is also be horrible for the earth).
Neo-liberal capitalism has not been able to address climate change in any significant way, thus there is much evidence that the human species is now far past the point that anything can be done to ensure the survival of liberal capitalist states in most of the world. I predict that except the UK, and Scandinavia, there will be no neoliberal capitalist states outside the global south by 2030... Continental Europe, Russia, and Canada will turn into powerful imperial states and most of the rest of the west will be destroyed from climate change, turned into basically whatever
Mad Max: Fury Road style war-lord wasteland scenario you care to dream up, but I guess you're right: there will still be an economy, a market of some sort, so fear not for the markets.
My point is that these 'designs' aren't fit, they aren't 'marvelous' whatever that means (I think you could only be praising the efficiency and remorselessness with which this capitalist dragonfly intelligence disrupts ecological systems, or perhaps the concentration of glittering
specie haha in the hands of so few is what you are suggesting is marvelous?). Maybe some people can marvel at a perfect doomsday plot, or the perfect way of disguising (wage-)slavery, but personally I can't seem to wrap my head around it. Based on the historical record, corporate industrial capitalism can inevitably rebuff any efforts to reign it in, but it always collapses or is co-opted by internal or external pressure. Industrial corporate capitalism is imperial and colonial, I think that is what you are missing about it: it has no end, it must always be searching to establish new markets and to stabilize control (through monopoly, the maintenance of which has lead to much violence, inefficiency, and injustice) of existing markets.