Notice the contradictory language used in describing what you want:
"creating a system that is efficient and holistic but also allows for diversity and evolution."
Effectively: I want things to be one thing that is the same, but also to be many things that change constantly. The truth is that this kind of small-scale logic breaks down when we talk about large systems. They can usefully be viewed, to take a page from Marx, as mediators of internal contradictions like this. Desires that pull in opposed directions.
It's in fact these contradictions that Marx, I believe, very effectively demonstrates cause ever more rapid and widespread crises like the financial meltdown of 2008 and the .com bubble 8 years before that as well as numerous global crises in the interim. He leverages a lot of historical and empirical data to demonstrate this and I would say reality has consistently validated this prediction. Its this crisis tendency that leads to an anti-capitalist position - clearly the system cannot effectively avoid disaster (it's now struggling to even remain stable for a decade). Therefore, we should really search for alternatives, what those are is not a ready-made answer and there's a lot of push back in attempting to experiment in the way necessary to discover them.
Its not small-scale logic. I have read Marx. He doesn't have all of the answers.
All of these crisis are not caused by a contradiction in thinking, they are caused by not comprehending and solving the true problem, which I have stated.
The reason this problem hasn't been solved is because it is extremely difficult, to the degree that it is easy for people to simply dismiss it as being contradictory goals.
Marxist thinking has led many times to a cooperative approach which has led to holistic hierarchical systems that were not diverse and flexible enough to cope with an evolving and distributed reality.
Capitalistic thinking also eventually leads to the same type of holistic hierarchical systems with the same problems.
"creating a system that is efficient and holistic but also allows for diversity and evolution."
Effectively: I want things to be one thing that is the same, but also to be many things that change constantly. The truth is that this kind of small-scale logic breaks down when we talk about large systems. They can usefully be viewed, to take a page from Marx, as mediators of internal contradictions like this. Desires that pull in opposed directions.
It's in fact these contradictions that Marx, I believe, very effectively demonstrates cause ever more rapid and widespread crises like the financial meltdown of 2008 and the .com bubble 8 years before that as well as numerous global crises in the interim. He leverages a lot of historical and empirical data to demonstrate this and I would say reality has consistently validated this prediction. Its this crisis tendency that leads to an anti-capitalist position - clearly the system cannot effectively avoid disaster (it's now struggling to even remain stable for a decade). Therefore, we should really search for alternatives, what those are is not a ready-made answer and there's a lot of push back in attempting to experiment in the way necessary to discover them.