And yet it does feed people, billions of us. Even more so we have less extreme poverty and fewer people suffering from malnutrition than any other time in human history, with poverty plummeting since 1960 at least.
The current system wasn't built indeed, it was evolved, in tune with the industrial revolution. And it works. In the 19th century over 80% of the world population was living in extreme poverty.
The progress has been immense, both technological and social, in only one century, a blink of an eye in the context of human history. Any such discussion should acknowledge this.
> "...rather than a tool thought from head to toes to run our socities"
Yeah, you know what economic system was designed like that? Communism. So I'm skeptical of any such claims.
I think it's where this becomes quite problematic, re-balancing this requires people with a huge amount of power (the wealthiest part of our society) to accept being less powerful. That's where we've been stuck for years now. What we're seeing now is how this system should have changed before we were in this emergency situation because it clearly can't handle actual emergencies.