No matter how you want to dress it whatever system we chose will always do two things: Enrich the elites and drug the masses (no matter your dope). Why? Simply because we demand it. It is our base load. It is natures design. So you may be noble in intent but life, especially when the chips are down, will ALWAYS win.
Disappointing indeed, tragic to some - but if you discount life as it is when bloody in tooth and nail you are living a lie.