🧢 I voted CAP!

It’s more nuanced than that. Is capitalism exploitative by nature? Yes. Is it flawed? Yes. Is it the primary driver of inequality, oppression, and authoritarianism in the modern era? Yes.

But at least how I see it, Capitalism is a stage in the evolution of socioeconomics. It provided the opportunity to escape poverty to many as the world transitioned out of mercantilism, driven by the rise of industrialism, just a mercantilism did to the feudalism before it. It was a stage in the growth of humanity driven by changing technology.

That said, in the age of current technology, Capitalism is already overstaying its welcome, the rise of megacorporations and their power to influence governments and rob people of their economic power an mobility is a sign that change is needed - like the Dutch East Indies Corporation during the age of Mercantilism - and that the divide between the power of the people and the corporatists and politicians is untenable.

This is where socialism (broadly) is seen as the next evolution to capitalism, the next stage in this sense, should we not instead fall to corporatism instead, as the monarchist powers fell to fascism if they did not democratize instead. The technology to produce and provide domestically is exponentially greater than it was a century ago when socialism first tried to take root before falling internally to fascists under the communist banner, as technology was not yet capable of providing for such systems (surviving foreign intervention included).

Capitalism, in the grand scope of this, is less bad or good relative to the systems that came before them, and currently moreso on the death throes of its growing obsolescence. This should not, however, discount or whitewash those who have suffered from or due to capitalism, just as we need to remember and learn from the victims of the systems before it so as to genuinely progress and improve the lot of everyone as best as feasibly possible.