Advancements are made by thinking individuals, and capitalism is the system that rewards individuals for harder work and more production (e.g., if I do work for my boss then I get paid, if I do good work I get promoted, if I do no or crappy work I get fired), whereas communism rewards people equally, giving absolutely no incentive to work or produce anything.
Imagine a society in which all the money made from production was distributed evenly among all members, a classless and completely equal society. Imagine that you go to work every day, and do the job expected of you, and generally just live your life. One day you notice that your neighbor doesn't do anything but sit at home and watch TV all day, but he still gets "paid", or given, just as much out of the communal money pool as you do. You have just been working to pay for his, and god knows how many other lazy people's laziness. And it is system that you live in that has made it possible. In communism, the lazy or incompetent benefit as parasites on people who actually work and produce things.
In capitalism, on the other hand, you can only earn a living by actually working and producing things. Your lazy neighbor in the above example would not be able to just sit at home watching TV if he had no source of income.
I don't think it is the fault of "human nature"; human nature has evolved in order for humans to be able to survive. I think that it is simply that people should be able to enjoy the products of their own labor and productive ability, and not have to contribute it to the "good of society" or the "good of their comrades".
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