Thinking about Friedman's chestnut that the efficacy of capitalism tends to make the few places it fails to touch stand out more aggressively in contrast, despite not causing them in any sense. Poverty is the default. But this assumes a transition between pre and post capitalism.
I was referring to capitalism as an economic framework of free exchange rather than as an overall political economy etc. I really don't know how to do political economy analysis so I mostly avoid it and take other angles of analysis.