I am much more inclined to say that capitalism is not an economic model but a mythology recited to us again and again. It makes us believe that everything revolves around money and that wealth is money. It is important to understand that wealth is transferred with money and money is not an end goal but a medium.
oh but how will you get wealth without the medium? Well, do you think its exclusively the only medium? the only way? why do we think every substantial happiness and freedom comes from consumption rather than revocation of it?
The mythology makes us believe that wealth is only through money and we spend most of our lives to see it as the end, just to get money, just to spend the money on consumption. I have not seen a lot of 20-year-olds who get money and do not throw it away.
obviously, you can transfer your money to wealth and some do. But wouldn't you want wealth as a by-product of maximizing yourself rather than maximizing yourself to fit into a role the economy set out for you?
Would you rather mould yourself to what the economy needs and hope it aligns with your own interest or would you rather explore yourself enough and make a mold of your own?
"The answer— and, in a sense, the tragedy of life— is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It’s not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective."