I agree, and those are both liberal ideals btw. Capitalism is liberal economics while free speech is a core principal of liberalism.

My only catch is I think Capitalism might be ill equipped for both the level of automation and AI we are beginning to utilize, as it encourages faster and cheaper techniques and risk taking that can and will backfire with AI, it allows for too much wealth inequality as it hinges on a workforce, and with automation production can be handled by too few people to properly spread weather, and this will grow exponentially. And lastly with both resources and AI, it encourages too much risk taking when said risks can have far too catastrophic consequences. AI must be approached slowly and cautiously. We are actually kind of fortunate in a way as what has happened with software driven stock trading illustrates very obviously what pitfalls can come from this. With resources at least a government can regulate, but with AI the genie is already out of the bottle, and that genie is like the monkey paw tale. What you wish for and how the genie/AI interprets that wish will not be the same thing unless those wishes are extremely specific and without greed while capitalism thrives on greed and harnesses it.

This is why what I think you are saying is definitely more right than how most people view these problems, but stopped being true enough to be the defacto best choice about a decade ago. We need to plan to ween ourselves off of it as a global society within the next century. I don't mean overnight change, and I definitely don't think being the first to change is in the best interests of a nation, but it is in the best interest of humanity on the whole.