There are limits on capitalism as practiced in the USA (I am assuming that is what you are talking about) as to the Gold standard there were peaks and valleys in the economy when the US was on it as well, fluctuation sin the economy will not be stopped by going back to it.
The limits on it do not consider the type of ill effects that occur due to the propaganda devised to promote the conditioning of society to increase its consumption of mundane goods to achieve happiness and freedom. As far as the gold standard, what you left out was the abolishment of the practice of fractional reserve banking to stop the excess lending associated with those business cycles.
First off that is rather simplistic. Many intellectual endeavors are undertaken purely for the knowledge, though money in any form is always a consideration. Secondly how will anything change under any system you propose?
Ok if govt doesn't interfere then how will it change?
What I am saying is that intellectual endeavor should take place independent of the influence of money, and when intellectual endeavor is necessary, there should be no need to consider money. The problem, as I have stated before, is that capitalism has resulted in those in possession of wealth having too much influence on the ideological, political, and sociological system. This in turn is resulting in society having distorted values which cause destructive tendencies like hate to flourish. First of all, having a strong intellectual class devoted to education and the dissemination of of knowledge would counter the ideological influence of capitalists who are naturally motivated to promote the consumption of goods to attain happiness. Second of all, it would serve to properly educate persons so that can be productive and responsible capitalists, menial laborers, skilled laborers, administrators, military officers, government officers, and intellectuals, who see their role as primarily to serve society, not just selfish people endeavoring to obtain mundane objects. Third of all, it would exert a powerful influence on the political system by promoting ideas and candidates that properly understand the need to consider the needs of society as a whole, and not just a narrow interests.
Intellectuals? They will act just the same as any other capitalist. or they will fail just like any other capitalist that uses a poor business model.
The influence of intellectuals in the economic sphere would be to understand when the economic system needs to be reigned in. Because they would be independent, they would be in a better position to objectively judge whether people engaged in business are being fair, are being honest, are not being excessive in terms of risk, and are not abusing workers.
Sorry I am confused here, You say you want a system to replace capitalism, then you say you actually dont want to replace capitalism then you want less govt regulation of capitalism. Seems to me your desire to move away from capitalist system is really just a desire to move to a less regulated capitalist society with the hopes that somehow more education will somehow make everything fairer.
Now I am all for better education but I can see no way that more education will somehow reduce greed.
The difference is that capitalism makes no mention of a need to balance the influence that capitalists have on society, so that is a rather big difference. Education will make a difference for the reasons that I mentioned. Greed is a result of the excessive focus on obtaining mundane things to achieve happiness and freedom. However, the endeavor to obtain mundane objects does not result in happiness and freedom, but rather misery and bondage. In order to obtain these objects society becomes enslaved to capitalists who exploit them so that they can live in great extravagance. When people are educated properly the will understand this, and will thus not blindly become slaves whose value is determine by how much wealth they can produce for their masters.