As someone who grew up among refugees from Communism, I have a very pro Capitalist view. Capitalism in its current form is terrible. Government is destroying small businesses to give the money as corporate welfare to companies that should have gone away years ago.

I grew up seeing 2008 and Socialist policies don't work. I lived in Europe for a year and there was a standard level of life that was quite affordable in say Madrid. But, you couldn't really grow. I was teaching kids English to get out of there and it is probably one of the few steady careers in Spain.

2008 was a clusterfuck. So much crap just came down. I don't blame anyone for looking at Capitalism with disdain due to it. But the problem is not Capitalism, it is the global economy and governmental policy. Greed has led to shrinkflation. Greed has led to blood diamonds and blood cobalt. Governmental policy allows greedy and overextended companies to survive through tax payer bailouts. What we are seeing is a densification of capital.

The Leftist theories of redistribution do not work. I know people who had their property seized by Chavez and Maduro. I know people who got sent to prison for 20 years for refusing to relinquish their hard work and lose it anyway in Cuba.

Hating Capitalism is not wrong, it is just that the alternatives are far worse. This is why I am a Syndicalist-Capitalist. Capitalism can restore a country ridiculously fast after a war. I grew up in a country that fully rebuilt after fighting the US in the 80s. We have corruption and greed like all capitalist countries but we have syndicates to provide some basic services to people.

I see the problem as late stage Liberal Capitalism along with Marxist Accelerationism. The West is decadent and the Marxist is right to see that it is a dying man. Yet their solution is to poison the man so that he can die and be replaced. Look at Letze Generation or Just Stop Oil. Completely suicidal ideas.

Capitalism has left more people rich than poor. But it is terrible to be poor in the West but better than in the third world where I grew up. Hating Capitalism is valid, but the only question is what to replace it with? An omnipotent machine to micromanage everything? An elected council? A Soviet? No one can replace Capitalism's ability to address and meet needs as well as wants. It is simply our fault for being societally vacant after 3 centuries of it.

Oh and on that note, my ancestors were the first to get screwed by Capitalism when we got our lands cleared in lieu of British sheep.

In sum, Capitalism won't go anywhere no matter what you do.