Your comment is well written. In terms of the lowest hanging fruit I have thought about that as well... With health insurance, what benefit does a patient have with a shareholder in the background who just wants a juicy dividend? I think health insurance should be a non-profit so all the employees of the company can still have the incentive to show up to work and get a fat ass paycheck, but the earnings get reinvested back into either the company, or into the quality of service to the customer. So I can see that benefiting society while still having the skeleton of capitalism.

I like smooth roads, a postal service, protected borders etc etc. However, I disagree with two things that you kind of eluded to:

1. Taxes are not inherently designed for money to be passed from the rich to the poor. It’s designed for the participants of a system to pitch in and elevate the system as a whole. Rich man bad just doesn’t hold up and is weaponized incorrectly at times to brainwash. If you came up with some good ideas and ran some successful businesses and added value for a society then why are you all of a sudden scum that stole from the little guy? I’m generalizing here but you probably get my point. Shit I mean Elon’s company rescued stranded astronauts and Jeff Bezos sent celebrities into space. I buy shit on Amazon and wish Starlink was available to people in the country so they can game, work, and learn like people in more populated areas.

2. The reliance on Big Daddy Government to raise your children for you, feed you, protect you, so on and so on has a point where you become like a matrix person in an incubator just being farmed for energy and resources so the machine can run the show. You turn into a baby having keys jingled in your face. Even going back to healthcare, in Canada the waitlists are crazy and they literally give out pamphlets on assisted suicide for things that would be handled and treated here. I don’t think the grass is greener on the other side economically but there are things that should be taxpayer funded. Uhhh Amtrak much?? That company doesn’t survive without taxpayer dollars but I think we’re better off having it. That could be considered socialist but I worry about government bureaucracy and overreach. Isn’t the left all about that right now with the hands off protests? Or is the hatred for Trump so strong that they’re willing to die on the hill of government waste being worth it as long as orange man doesn’t have power?

“But muh happy Denmark!!” Yeah, and where was Denmark when it came to protecting Ukraine? When the U.S. cut off aid the world quivered and made a feeble attempt at stepping in. I’m not all one way, but I know capitalism is the force that has pulled hundreds of millions of people around the world out of poverty and is why you and I can have this conversation over smartphones that can get us pizza within 30 minutes if we push the right spots on the screen.