I think it’s productive because it serves to stabilize the society by giving it an ideological underpinning.
Roughly: there’s no better alternative to capitalism and we have capitalism therefore we have reached optimal society.
just in case anyone else misunderstood this comment on their first reading, kubb is not praising capitalism here
I think you're doing the thing I'm literally railing against; I believe the tendency to turn a relatively simple concept like "we should have a society that has peace and also favorable trades" into IDEOLOGY is precisely how we end up with overreach.