that disease and death by starvation are consistent with the existence of a perfectly good and perfectly powerful being who cannot fail to will the best possible world.
Millions of children die every year from diseases and shortages that are the direct product of capitalism’s subordination of life to profit. A world planned economy (a world federation of workers’ states) would eliminate disease and shortages, but putting that objection aside,
socialists can grant that under capitalism advances were made that were not possible under earlier modes of production: so what? You don’t have an argument that capitalism isn’t utopian — an argument that discredits the labor theory of value — any more than you have an argument
This supports my point as I'm not arguing for the omni-God. On one hand, values of the constants are improbably conducive to life. On the other hand, the universe is shit in all sorts of ways. We need a theory that captures both of these data-points.