In capitalism, the first winners of the
capitalist race work to shut the door to the top behind them,
favoring their families and golfing buddies, creating monopolies and
oligopolies gradually funneling all the money and soft power to
themselves, and allowing them to bribe politicians to acquire
indirect hard power. They then become feudal lords in all but name.



In communism, those bureaucrats in
charge of distributing the wealth favor their families and golfing
buddies. They then require ever more amounts of policing power to
enforce this disparity, resulting in a constant seesaw where the
goods given to the people get ever smaller, requiring ever more
policing power to prevent a rebellion from resulting, resulting in
even less money getting distributed to the people, requiring even
more money be given to the policing needed to prevent rebellion,
until the country is just a feudal system in which the Feudal Lords
are called bureaucrats.


Ultimately the core problem isn't
capitalism or communism, but tribalism. That is to say, the natural
tendency of human beings to favor their families and friends over the
good of the nation. Fighting against this tendency requires a massive
amount of both careful systemic design, and vigilance.