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I'd actually disagree quite strongly that capitalism gives people an equal motivation to succeed. It certainly doesn't give people an equal opportunity to do so. Under capitalism untempered by socialism, the children of the rich will always have better health, better access to education and more opportunities.
There's a kind of naive belief that, in a completely free market system, people would be rewarded according to the work they put in. They wouldn't; how they succeed would depend on their social backgrounds, the wealth of their parents, their genetic inheritance and pure blind chance.
As an extreme example, I have a cousin with Down's Syndrome and in no way could she thrive without help in a system that didn't have the safeguards won by socialism.
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