I don't disagree with you, Bruce, on the details you mention.
But I do have a different big picture perspective.
Capitalist nations that have a voting system of Full Representation in place (such as Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain) perform much better for all in society than nations with a Limited Democracy (such as the USA and the UK).
Here is the tragedy:
Because the USA and the UK have competition-for-the-sake-of-competition (meaning, they do not establish a bottom line under which no one in society can end up living), their bottom parts of society are desperately abused via poverty and lack of services and education.
The international definition of poverty is 50% of the person's income in the middle.
The EU definition of poverty is 60% of the person in the middle, because there would otherwise not be enough people considered to be living underneath that poverty line.
In the USA, the definition of poverty ends up being something like 39% of what the person in the middle has. This way, a lot fewer people are counted as living in poverty.
Another tragedy is that the rich end up getting more in the USA and the UK than in other rich nations, see the gini index:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
What that means is that the international investors like to invest in the USA and the UK because they end up getting more money for their investments than in the other rich nations.
So, the UK and the USA are actively supporting the rich in the world while suppressing the poor at home. They then also actively support suppressing the distribution of wealth in the world because competition is an international affair (since 1992, with WTO). Meaning, the decent countries in the world are pulled down by the indecent countries of the world (leaders in this category: USA and UK).
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I hope you see that I agree with you on the details you mentioned, but I have to clarify the reality of capitalism better than you do. There is a baby in the bathwater and we need to help the baby and stop the USA and the UK from handing more to the bathwater's rich people of the world.
We need better power systems in the USA and Britain. Thank you for your response, Bruce.
Here is a map of the world that shows how few nations are true democracies in the world.
https://fred-rick.medium.com/the-first-thing-about-democracy-5f6e1f17c60f
