&gt;Capitalism maximizes &quot;giving people what they want&quot;. This is much closer to the benevolent AI models than to paperclip maxizers.<p>Yes, I&#x27;m sure that what I want involves working lots of hours to buy Boston real-estate.  That surely wasn&#x27;t determined for me by capitalism, in roughly the same way that a not-quite benevolent AI might determine that what I really ought to want is paperclips.