You’re halfway there. Now think about who created both plutocracy and Marxism-Leninism, and who tell us that those are the only two systems that can possibly exist.
Whenever an economy is going good “That’s true (socialism/capitalism),” but whenever that economy collapses the excuse is always “That wasn’t TRUE (socialism/capitalism).” AND often the believers will accuse the failed economy of being the opposite system. The capitalist will say “That economy failed because it was really socialism masquerading as capitalism!” and the socialist will say “That economy failed because it was really capitalism masquerading as socialism!” And the solution is always “We need more (socialism/capitalism).”
The United States economy is failing because it’s capitalist (according to the socialist) or because it’s socialist (according to the capitalist). This places the US economy into a state of superposition. It’s Schrodinger’s economy that’s somehow both exclusively capitalist and exclusively socialist at the same time.
At the same time the socialists will claim the economy of Norway as socialist and the capitalists will claim it is capitalist.
Neither of these systems can exist in the real world. They are utopian fantasies that exist only on paper.
I don’t care what works on paper, I only care about what works in the real world.
It’s time to abandon the false dichotomy of socialism/capitalism and develop a new economic system that is based on reality instead of theory.