Capitalism functions as an ecosystem, in which the participants are the organisms competing with one another. Though nature is cyclical, people are linear and goal oriented. We push things til they break down, but nature treats it as all one big feedback loop, positive, or negative.

The flaw in capitalism is that the medium which enables it, money, is treated as both medium of exchange and store of value. As both contract and commodity. It has mutated from the efficient transfer of value, to the manufacture of money as the end goal.

Capitalists are the greatest danger to capitalism.

An essay exploring why; https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-worm-in-the-apple-of-modern-capitalism-a46081000d5a