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[reverendjeremiah]

Perhaps once must look at utility rather than ideals when dealing with the realm of realism. The end goal of all systems is essentially the same, it's the methods which are employed to get there which differ. We are animals, we rationalize, we respond to stimuli and we are often arrogant and risk averse. These characteristics match well with the capitalist system, thus it becomes useful and efficient.

None of that inherently makes capitalism the universal system for humanity. I can just as easily argue (with scintific evidence backing me) that humans have evolved with a social sense of community, caring for our elders, teamwork to ensure the success of our current society and its future offspring. I COULD say that this makes socialism the universally inherent system for humanity, but that would be just as specious of an argument as you suggesting that since greed and arrogance exists in humanity, that capitalism therefore is the natural system.
Might I also point out that utilitarianism is just another method, like capitalism and socialism is a method. Capitalism and socialism can both be utilitarian. Socailism can also be rational.

The base of everything is knowledge.

And here I thought the base of everything was materialism.

That knowledge can be gained either from mistakes made by the self or understanding mistakes made by others.

which happens in capitalism AND socialism.

Experience or education. To fix something which is vastly broken requires vast amounts of effort.

which happens in capitalism AND socialism.

One can either assist the effort directly themselves through protest and revolt, or they can invest in the future and ensure the lives of their children will be better than the lives which they themselves have lived.

which happens in capitalism AND socialism.

Both have been shown to work, I am a proponent of the latter as I am against violence and promote cooperation.

No, you promote capitalism, which is a competitive system. socialism is a cooperative system. Like I said before, you cant have both as they are mutually exclusive.