Asklemmy

edit: You know down voting something doesn't make it untrue? This is true whether you like it or not.

Every time I ask for "capitalism" problems I get answers about what the government does.

"too big to fail"? Government bailouts.

"antitrust"? Government granted monopolies and making the laws so that barriers to entry are too big.

"police shootings" Government gang.

"inflation"? Government monetary policy.

"colonization"? Government expansion

"not enough social programs"? Government policy.

Then you've got the sub-70s who go on about "exploitation" which is rooted entirely in fiction.

Life requires work. All life everywhere. Humans aren't exempt from this; demanding that others do all your work and provide for you or free isn't going to work.

Some of these people would complain that they have to chew their own food.

People forget that capitalism has lifted literally billions of people out of poverty, it's advanced our technology to where it's basically magic. It increased the amount of food we can grow with fewer people allowing people to move past subsistence farming (which many socialist countries reverted to).

Capitalism uses people greed to provide better, cheaper, faster versions of things..

Then the government gets involved and instead of blaming the government they're told to blame capitalism, so they do.

Most people who hate capitalism are focusing in on its evil brother, "unfettered capitalism". UC is a shit show which has created many of the problems we see today and is the unholy unity created when big business and the government combine. When done right, capitalism pushes to lower costs and improve services for consumers. Companies competing is a good thing. Unfortunately the greed of corporations knows no bounds which is when UC enters the picture and fucks everything up.

Ehh it's probably mostly kids who have been handed everything to them their entire life and when they realize they need to start providing for themselves after their parents kick them out of the basement they get mad because they don't want to do anything but play videogames and get paid. They don't realize the only reason they have videogames to begin with is because of capitalism.

Because it's fashionable and people are trying to be edgy

Most folks have taken things for granted for too long. Throughout the course of our history, we human have never been wealthier, healthier, and happier. Our stomachs have never been more filled. People have forgotten how we get here. It is not dynastic empires, Soviet Republics, nor facist dictatorships that bring us the quality of life we all enjoy. It is rather tragic to withness the spread of the anti-capitalism ignorance.

I am pro-capitalist myself because there is literally no evidence for anything else working well on earth. Capitalist systems (albeit with regulations to maintain free markets - ie snuff monopolies and anticompetitive practices) have improved the standard of living for people more than any other system ever has. But I full expect flurries of downvotes because of where I am and the group think circle jerk here.