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Off the top of my head, something like social ownership of all necessities (e.g. housing healthcare education security natural resource management etc.) utilities (e.g. water/sewer electricity internet garbage etc.) and infrastructure (e.g. bridges dams public transportation systems etc.), administered by a network of democratically elected and transparently administered (e.g. subject to public records requests, required to make annual reports, etc.) local and regional councils with a variety of checks and balances on each other, reserving luxury and entertainment goods and services for private ownership, and establishing strong legal and cultural recognition of individual's free speech and privacy rights (and I think at a minimum privacy requires every person having their own room with a door that locks, so ~~society~~ e; the tenants collectively own the apartment complex (but the maintenance is funded by a neighborhood council that is funded by a city council that etc.) but you own your unit)
That sounds very good, and I agree. But I think even that system would be capitalistic too. But with way more control and ownership of it given to the people instead of the 1%.
In Denmark we have some of that, although it was partially undermined by the right wing government in the 80.
But electric infrastructure is "in principle at least" owned by the users. The same is somewhat true with water supply, Public transportation, Postal services used to be but aren't anymore. Some of our internet infrastructure is indirectly publicly owned. So we have 1 Gbit internet at a fair price.
All these things exist fine withing a well regulated capitalist system, and even with private competition. The real key is taxes and distribution of wealth, and in that regard the biggest problem is to balance being part of an international community, which a small country like Denmark absolutely has to be, and balance that with the race to the bottom we often see from other countries.
It would for instance be easier to tax the rich fairly, if there weren't tax shelters. But the rich can spend a lot of money on tax and accounting specialists to avoid tax. And they are often very difficult to pursue legally.
These are the real world problems, not just the knee jerk "capitalism is the problem" that is so often thrown around.