There are certain objectives that it is important for societies to try to achieve, of which, one of those objectives should be to provide for one another, the necessities of life, and further to the point, set the foundation for as many people as possible, to better achieve those necessities. That which is necessary for life consists of liberty, freedom, employment, shelter, food, opportunity, education, healthcare, justice, and fairness. This thus signifies that the governance of any society needs to prioritize the achievement of those very necessary things because without certain necessities of life, such as food and shelter, life, itself, becomes problematic and troubling.
To live in a capitalist society is to live in a society where without proper government controls to ensure that there is a level playing field of fair and open competition, as well as appropriate taxation being imposed, lends itself to being a society that can easily tilt in which the very few have it all, at the overall expense of the many, thereby signifying that those very few will have an abundance of the wealth of everything that could ever be imagined and then some; yet, within, that very same society there would be plenty of people, that is, an underclass, that would be struggling to just have some fair portion of such.
This would surely indicate that any sane society needs to get the proper perspective of what it is trying to accomplish for the greater good, of which, if it is believed, that the overarching objective is to see that all have fair access to a baseline of the necessities of life, than that governance needs to prioritize that, above all. On the other hand, if such governance has been essentially co-opted by the richest and most powerful, then the end result in this modern age, is going to be something more akin to an aristocracy, because mega-corporations extract profits in the billions upon billions of dollars, and without proper taxation upon these corporations as well as proper taxation upon superrich individuals, then essentially as time goes on, more and more assets and monies will have been funneled and are going to continue to be funneled into those specific few entities, pretty much at the painful expense of those that don’t really have fair access to the necessities of life.
Indeed, no matter how wealthy a given country is, not everyone can be rich; but, at the same time, everybody doesn’t need to be rich. That is to say, at the end of the day, what makes for a good society is fair access to opportunity, as well as the comprehension that we must do our best to provide and to see that as many as possible have a seat at the table of opportunity, democracy, and a true voice to express their concerns, and when this is accomplished, society becomes a more caring and a more wholesome place, because where there is fairness and justice, there will not only be peace but also a lasting satisfaction that life is good.