The one exception I take to this piece is the over use of the word 'capitalism'. I see too many writers on Medium use the word capitalism when a better more exact term can be used. Or just make up your own term.

Capitalism is the creation of 'surplus-value'. This is a different concept from 'mass-production' and turning workers into 'mass-men' who are just cogs in the mechanism of society. China is not a capitalist country where individuals own the means of production, but they are a country that is focused on industrialization and mass production.

The next phase after industrialization is postindustrialization or deindustrialization in the West. Capitalism may or may not fall and we enter a postcapitalist world, but we should keep the two concepts seperate and not equate one with the other. This is why people cannot see past capitalism as a system.