And yet as our knowledge of how things work increases, we realize the linkages demand we look at outcomes in multiple dimensions, not just how much profit for and in one sector directly involved.  For example- deciding effects from more droughts and floods resulting from accelerating climate change are not worth consideration makes sense from a micro-economic perspective, but on the larger macro-economic perspective of social and even national accounts it is suicidal. In addition, just because private capitalism is thus far the best economic system we have come up with does not mean it is the best we can come up with, especially as technology, knowledge, productivity and surplus wealth  with its attendant inequities continue to evolve and interact at ever faster rates.