Capitalism rewards those that don’t really deserve reward. It allows the power hungry, the megalomaniacs, the overcompetitive, the uncaring and the psychopaths to the top, to succeed and to be rewarded.

You can argue that it works, that it delivers an overall better standard of living for the populace, that it is the best system we have tried, that the market is better than the state, that competition and survival drive efficiency and countless other economic cases.

But its fundamental problem is that it rewards the wrong people, the wrong behaviours and the wrong worldview. It rejoices in inequality, in status and in a belief that unfairness is part of the human condition.

It borrows this from our tribal past, from the idiocy of religion and from a moral laziness that is no longer challenged in mainstream discourse.

Maybe it’s time to think again.