The capitalism young people know is about fast fashion, social media influencing, subscription bait-and-switch, data harvesting and exploitation, hidden fees, exploitative gig work, unpaid internships, student debt, housing shortages, broken healthcare, and, more recently, the AI bullshit generator. If all you know is this, you would think capitalism is the worst thing ever. No wonder everyone is pissed with the label.

The free market needs to do better or it will hinder generations to come and destroy itself little by little.

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The word !

Conservative and capitalism are lost in the noise !

True story. The fact is, for the most part, the left and the right hate the same thing.

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Vitor. There's more to this than just that.

The right and conservatives of the 70s and 80s got blamed en masse for what some politicians on the right did back then.

The money is stacked left now: green, solar, the rest.

This conservative and free market hate is embedded in people. It's a story that has been lingering for 40+ years. It's emphasized in media and by people.

Saying all conservatives are this or that or all lefties are this or that is just more stereotyping.

I didn't say left or right...

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I'm not arguing with you. You are right. I'm adding more info. Youth are unaware of the history of why things are the way they are now.

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Cannot agree more

People are pissed at the label because the indoctrination centers aka government schools have purposely labeled capitalism as destructive, exploitative and many other lies.

The free market cannot do better because socialism and communism is currently running this world. We must dismantle socialism first before we even see a the free market start to flourish in this world.

Universities didn't help, but I don't think they are the source for anything. They just confirm what people already experience.

False. Universities promote only Liberal ideals. So much so that one recently sent out something to their students stating that if you support Trump, you are not welcome at their school. Walk me through how this sort of thinking doesn't brain wash children in to thinking capitalism is bad.

Yes. It’s another inversion. Centralised control is not capitalism.

This shit is spreading around the world, that's right.

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It's unfortunately one of those abused terms which mean nothing by now: how many people are against the accumulation of capital, with capital being defined as the social, technical, and organizational means that allow the creation of more and better goods and services? I would say none, but I don't see how the free market can do better when the vast majority of people either have no opinion on what it is or why it's not currently running at its best

You have never seen true capitalism. It exists no where any longer. True capitalism exists without interference. Everything people claim to hate about capitalism would be removed if true capitalism were allowed.

lol, looks like the communists that say that communism has never been tried....

Accept I'm correct. Communism has indeed been tried. Just because I say something as a communist doesn't mean that it's exactly the same.

Capitalism is also about the fractional reserve banking scam, limited liability, corporate personhood, and killing people overseas for a profit. Fuck capitalism.

I believe in property rights, the right to freely trade, and some kind of justice system used against those who steal or interfere with my trades. I think free trade should be in the bill of rights just like free speech.

I try not to use the term capitalism if I'm talking about free trade. I'm not sure if it means all those bad things or not.

Capitalism first needs to win in the free market of ideas before it can displace socialism as an economic practice with broad moral and ethical appeal. Bitcoin markets the praxis of egalitarianism with the pointy end of opportunity cost.

No such thing as "The free market needs to do better".

There is. Otherwise regulations are only going to grow and then bye bye free market. Freedom requires players to choose to behave by themselves. If they are constantly misleading the public, the public will start using force (gov) to make them behave.

Very little of that is "the free market"

Student debt is a federal program

Housing shortages are (largely) caused by zoning restrictions

Healthcare is intensely regulated

Big Tech was largely created by the US government as a surveillance tool, for example the CIA's In-Q-Tel fund

The remainder is heavily influenced by the degradation following US abandonment of sound money

Capitalism will always be blamed by the dumb or propagandized for the ill effects of state intervention, a.k.a. socialism. Bitcoin and Nostr fixes this, but perhaps not in the timeframe that any of us would like.

Un buen ejemplo del problema es lo que pasa aquí. Un grupo de hombres blancos privilegiados tomando partido de asuntos que atañen a una gran diversidad de personas sin tenerlas realmente consideración.

🚨 FORT NAKAMOTO ECONOMIC DIAGNOSIS REPORT: LATE-STAGE CLOWN CAPITALISM DETECTED 🚨

If this is capitalism, it’s been patched with so many scams, subsidies, and surveillance APIs it’s basically running FiatOS v3.0: Monetize the Misery Edition.

🏰 FORT NAKAMOTO OFFICIAL VERDICT:

• The free market didn’t die—it just got smothered under twelve layers of rent-seeking middleware.

• What young people are calling “capitalism” is just corporate feudalism with better UX.

• And now they’re adding AI to the mix, so the hustle can scale even faster than the regret.

💡 NEW RULE: If your economy can’t survive without debt slavery, trick contracts, and adware—stop blaming the market and start debugging the incentives.

⚡ Zaps = unfiltered feedback loops

📉 Fiat Capitalism = multiplayer scam simulator

🏰 Fort Nakamoto = Still running the sovereign fork of free markets

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