I hate capitalism, am I alone?

I don't like businesses focusing on profit so much either. I'm not sure if it's sustainable to focus on something else instead. Maybe when business ignore profit they crash and burn. I'm not sure because I don't like to think about profit, I'm a technician/specialist first, and find finances very boring. I would think small business could accomplish this, by staying small and focusing on the product and not growth. However the past year has definitely favored large corporations that could handle the lockdowns.

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Well its because the general idea of going to university, leaving with debt, getting a job to pay off those debts whilst borrowing more for that car, home and healthcare, etc is now seen today as the great scam highlighted by the pandemic.

It would require having multiple sources of revenue like having 3 jobs + going into youtube / twitch ad monetization, investing in stocks or crypto and your own business to increase your income.

Even if you have huge profits from this, you will still be taxed to death anyway (By being on the highest tax group).

I'll agree that there is too much emphasis on profit at many companies at the moment. Food delivery companies aren't making the world a better place, they're making it worse with the increase in single use packaging. They're taking an outsized amount of money, forcing the restaurants to give up some of their profit, and as a result, the some restaurants just can't continue.

But there are also companies that are doing great things, and there are non-profits also doing great things.

Walk around your local grocery store, and realize that much of what is there exists because of capitalism. Do you have a favorite product or service? It probably exists because of capitalism.

Does that mean that everything needs to be done to maximize profit? No, that's just pure greed, and a major issue in society today. But though capitalism can feed into greed, it doesn't have to be that way. Perhaps it's an opportunity for you to find a tribe with the same beliefs as you and find a better way to have an impact.

For most of Time calories have been very expensive so we are conditioned to do the least amount of work possible for the most calories. Most economic systems involve some kind of force to get humans to work and work together. Capitalism seems to be the best we have developed. We like to think that we are happy to work for the betterment of humanity but the reality is that that only goes so far. Eventually work becomes a chore and we want to give up. Capitalism works because it hacks people's self interest to work for everyone.

Capitalism has problems but it's the best we have. The best we can do, for now, is to fix the problems that crop up and continue.

It’s a little on the long side, but I’ll quote from near the end of the introduction:

    Towards evening, we finished the job. Everyone took delivery of
    his final load of [fertilizer], but this time no one carried it
    off to the river, but instead to his own kolkhoz. It was then
    relayed to Moscow that everything was going well and that this
    year's harvest would be a record, thanks to the Regional
    Committee's First Secretary. Moscow promptly replied with a
    congratulatory telegram to the First Secretary and to all workers
    of the Region. And that was that.

    Late that night, I delivered one and a half tons of the fertilizer
    to the kolkhoz and reported to the Chairman that I had fulfilled
    the task ahead of time. He thanked me but did not go into
    detail. Everything had been clear to him from the very
    beginning. He had long been accustomed to the fact that, whenever
    the Communist Party issues instructions, these invariably end in a
    way no one wishes to remember.

    'Where shall I put this one and a half tons?' I asked.

    'Keep them yourself! If necessary, I could produce record harvests
    without fertilizers. But what's the point?'

    And that was that. I poured the liquid over my own tiny private
    plot. It proved an unpardonable mistake. Apparently, there was too
    much fertilizer for my tiny area of ground and I applied it at the
    wrong time. In May, when all the neighbouring kitchen gardens were
    producing strong shoots mine was barren. I was horrified. What
    would I eat during the winter? I was not going to become a soldier
    until the following spring: so how was I to live until then? The
    money I would receive for my work at the kolkhoz would be hardly
    enough for two months of very frugal existence. The peasant's only
    hope is his private plot which is not much bigger than the palm of
    his hand. And if nothing grows on that - what then?

    I had to make some urgent decisions. But what? I could not run
    away from the kolkhoz: under socialism a peasant has no right to a
    passport, although everybody else has an internal passport. As a
    result of this simple restriction, a peasant cannot live in a
    town, cannot marry a town girl or stay in a hotel. Travelling on a
    plane is also forbidden. Who will let you board an aircraft
    without a passport?  Maybe you are a criminal?

    Don't think it is just a Soviet communist caprice, either. It is a
    vital necessity. If you are trying to establish material equality
    among the inhabitants of any country, you must introduce similar
    measures against the peasants. If you make all people equal, there
    will be mass migration of peasants into towns, where the working
    day is limited, where one need not work on rest days and holidays,
    and where one can have a holiday in summer. But, if all the
    peasants go to live in towns, your state of universal equality
    will perish from hunger. And, in order to prevent that state of
    affairs, you will be obliged to revert to the free market system,
    that is to capitalism, or else keep the peasants in their villages
    by force, by barbed wire, guard-dogs, threats and the introduction
    of special anti-peasant legislation.

    I was a convinced supporter of the material equality of all
    mankind and therefore was prepared to spend all my life without an
    internal passport, which means never flying in an aircraft, never
    staying at an hotel and never marrying a town girl. But, in
    compensation, we would have equality. There would...