I don't get the same impression in my community. I'm pretty sure that we all love capitalism in "millionairs@lemmy.lm" What communities do you waste your time on?

Why be pro any *ism or *ist? Why not be pro *ance?

Because basic economics is never taught properly in schools. People don't understand what free healthcare/education/whatever costs. Because, at least in the US, universities are heavily politicized by anti capitalist mentality.

Socialism doesn't scale up. Capitalism doesn't scale down.

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.

Because the ml in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist-Leninist, and this instance is populated mostly by a banned reddit community of pro-CCP Marxists. You should join a different instance.