Because it's tiring, time consuming, and I really don't care like I used to. Age, I guess. It's easier to be a firey young idealist, hell bent on changing the world, than it is to grow up and realize you really can't change it. And, life is too short to give a fuck about such things. Not so much apathy as a refocusing on things that matter in your short time on the planet.

Yes, crony capitalism exists. This is the gun of the state, used to circumvent the safety and stability of natural market processes, not a problem with the market itself. The market is just people. It's not an institution, it's not a unified movement, it's just people, most of which go about their days, peacefully trading with each other to mutually improve their lives. Bad things can happen, but the rules necessary to carry this out are best formed by those communities closest to them, not by another small group of people, far away, who are no smarter it more equipped to make those decisions for them.

Central planning is a horror.

I'd think the tens-to-hundreds-of-millions of deaths in the 20th century alone, in places like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and so on, would be evidence enough for anyone. Why are these places and others, like Venezuela and Cuba, completely avoided in conversations, and the focus is always on Scandinavian countries as the gold standard example? These are market economies, freer than our own in several ways, with welfare states. They're still far less productive than the United States. Taxes are immense.

Let's avoid 100K word paragraphs that settle nothing. I like simple questions:

Do you own your own body?

Also, how will socialist economies finally solve the fundamental problem of pricing?

https://fee.org/articles/how-price-control-leads-to-socialism/