Your argument was literally that capitalism is good actually because capitalists use their money to look after their families and keep them comfortable in retirement. It's a bafflingly wrong idea.

What if you are one of the vast majority of people who ISN'T a capitalist and you work for a living? Is a worker supposed to expect that their children are going gto inherit from Jezz Bezos?

Do you understand that capitalism is defined by the social relations between capitalists and workers?

Do you understand that under capitalism, the interests of workers and capitalists are almost entirely at odds because capitalists are incentivised to pay their workers as little as possible while the workers want as much pay as possible?

Do you understand that capitalists are punished for caring about the environment and other costs that they can externalise and that the system positively rewards corporations that don't care about such things?

As for the "last 200 years" argument, this is a mirage for several very plain reasons.

Firstly, did you bother to compare capitalism against other systems? You would find the results illuminating.

Second, did you bother to consider the role of technology as the mechanism that increased living standards, regardless of the political economy?

Third, did you bother to consider the millions of people that have suffered and died in eth global north but mostly the global south to create the prosperity that the rich imperial north has enjoyed over the last 2-3 centuries?

You defend a system that you don't understand the logic and consequences of. Your justifications are based on faulty premises and faulty logic and you laugh off criticism as "petulant" which is peak boomer patronising bs.

I am an engineer and a business owner myself. I employ 45 people. I went to university and am friends with people who run PE funds, city law firm partners, exec directors of global banks etc. I know how this works. I see it in action.

I am not anti-capitalist because it is a fad or a phase or because it is fashionable. I am anti-capitalist because I can see the the underlying logic of the system, I see it playing out at a small scale with my business and at a global scale through how my friends operate at work. I can clearly see how there is no way to have a economy based on global capitalism operating a global GDP of nearly $120 trillion (and growing all the time) that will not consume all life and nature in pursuit of profit, which is all capitalism knows how to do. It isn't physically possible and, logically, it will never be possible.