I agree that most consumers don't care about art. No, I haven't seen that movie.

I suspect there are lots of theoretical alternatives to capitalism, but few if any that would work for us as we are. That's to say we may be inherently prone to self-destructing or to "progressing" and "growing" in a way that's cancerous and unsustainable.

We would have to be forced to develop a new economic system since we're too decadent to choose to reform our ways. Whenever a group of people try to impose an alternative, the new system fails because the act of imposing it establishes an injustice that ramifies as the system carries on.

But technological advances are another matter. They could inadvertently force alternatives on us without being corrupted. That's why I say that the internet has that potential, even though monopolies are trying to restrict the internet to the old capitalist uses.