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There are material conditions to causing the actions which people think of as evil. Material conditions explain virtually everything about the actions of humans within capitalism. "We can't possibly know how people do evil things, they just are naturally evil in an unexplained way" is just admitting you don't know what material conditions would cause evil actions to happen. That is a *you* problem if you feel the same. You need to learn about dialectical materialism if you agree with their line of thought. This is your brain when you are ignorant of the incentives capital, both fiduciary and non-fiduciary kinds, does within capitalist societies.
A couple of really solid book if you like this:
a history of the world in seven cheap things by raj patel
exocapitalism by marek poliks
Yes, it's human made causes, not supernatural, so of course they need human made solutions. Like human trafficking and infections will not get fixed by incantations, but can be fixed with data-backed solutions. Use Sagan's baloney detection kit to figure out what has backing and peer reviewed, and is best for healthy, happy humanity of the majority, no just the wealthy owners.
Yeah the system lets "evil" float to the top. Different systems would encourage different results.
So capitalism is a problem for everyone in the world, but there's something more fundamental happening in the US. Capitalism is just an excuse, but people really do not give a fuck about their communities in the US, or at least a small minority do care. 90% of people of all walks of life, they just wanna make a million dollars and they won't flinch to kill a neighbor for it. Hell, half of them won't flinch to kill a family member for a million bucks.