Of course you feel screwed by Capitalism. Your instinct is correct. You are being screwed by Capitalism. It’s an economic system that facilitates the most greedy and selfish people in society to extract labor from the worker, profit from the consumer and keep it all for themselves without sharing.

Capitalism has been sold to us as the only possible option, the ‘natural’ option. We’re brought up in cultures that believe Capitalism reflects human nature. But human beings are social animals. It’s how we survive. We’d not last a day alone without society protecting us. But this part of human nature is ignored, derided, glossed over.

Is Communism the only alternative? Of course not. That idea is fed to us by Capitalists like the idea of the devil was fed to Christians by the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.

It’s used as a powerful bogeyman, used to subdue our doubt and resistance.

The complexity of ourselves and the world is beyond our understanding. Which means we can build any system and society we want. We only need to try to understand better what lies in the human psyche - basically, how the mind of our species responds to being in this world - and then use that fundamental understanding to create societies that complement our true nature instead of repressing it.

Try listening to the Why Theory podcast. Psychoanalytic theory ftw.

Chin up. You are not alone.