We need to bring back Max Weber's criticisms of capitalism

So, after the other night, I kind of realized that my core critique of capitalism is actually more akin to Max Weber's take on capitalism. Basically, unlike Marx, who had his critiques focused on "exploitation" and "alienation" and the bourgeoisie making off with the surplus value of labor, and how we needed socialism and a revolution to solve the problems with capitalism, Weber's takes actually went straight back to the protestant work ethic. Basically, he saw capitalism as an iron cage that subjected people to intense stress and anxiety to force people to be productive, and that people are subjected to rigid systems that force people to become cogs in them. And that's....precisely, more or less, what I was saying. That the core problem with capitalism is that the system was designed to force people to be productive for the point of producing endless amounts of growth, and that people often never truly benefit from this growth because the system requires them to be kept in a constant state of precarity and economic anxiety in order to basically force them to be wage slaves. Basically, it's the same core criticism. I come at it over a hundred years later by leaving christianity and using humanism to clean myself of most/all christian influences that could not be justified secularly. 

And as such, I don't really see capitalism as inherently evil in and of itself. I was gonna write a companion article to my previous article about conservatism being evil by asking of capitalism is evil, but researching my stances I have discussed on this blog, it is very obvious that I don't see the structure of capitalism, ie, markets, to necessarily be the problem. The problem is being forced to work under capitalism, and for reference, neither liberalism, nor social democracy, nor Marxism, have ever really moved beyond the work ethic. All of them just implicitly assume it, and force people to work in other ways. For liberals its by having a specific set of reforms that make work better but never truly give people their freedom. For Marxists, they just inevitably end up forcing people to work at the point of a gun as they end up having to replace capitalism's market system with something, and that's the alternative. 

Honestly, I am in the camp that much like Philippe Van Parijs, that capitalism can be justified as the system that gives people more freedom after all, but all of my research indicates that a UBI and similar companion programs are necessary to achieve that freedom. So for me, the answer is libertarian social democracy that first and foremost respects peoples' freedom to say no, not socialism, and I would prefer some variation of "human centered capitalism" to some sort of system replacement. Capitalism ain't busted, it actually has a lot of good things going for it, it just needs to be modified to make it more humane. 

But yeah. I wish Weber's critiques of capitalism were more common in the discourse. Everyone associates anticapitalism with Marx and those revolutionary movements to abolish capitalism, when we kind of need a new form of capitalism based in giving people "real freedom for all" or "freedom as the right to say no." it's not capitalism itself that's the issue, it's forced labor.