Bitching about capitalism is peak capitalism

People love to bitch about capitalism while tweeting from their $2,000 MacBook, wearing $1,000 worth of designer bullshit, sipping a $15 Starbucks drink they can't pronounce... having driven there in their mass-produced, ultra-efficient SUV with heated seats and lane assist, from their climate-controlled McMansion packed with smart home gadgets, 4K TVs, and enough food in the fridge to feed a small village for a week.

Smash Capitalism!

They think they’re fighting "the system." They’re not. They’re the system's favorite customer.

Let's break this down. Capitalism isn’t perfect. No system is. But it’s done more to drag humanity out of the mud than anything else in history.

Running water on demand... hot or cold, take your pick. Electricity that keeps the lights on and the air cold while you doomscroll in bed. Medicine that works, not some snake oil brewed in a communal cauldron. Cars that start every morning, even in the dead of winter, with heated seats and Bluetooth so you can blast Spotify playlists on your way to get groceries. Phones so advanced they make Star Trek communicators look like Fisher-Price toys. Planes that can take you across the world in hours while you sip wine at 30,000 feet and complain about legroom.

Streaming services with entire libraries of content, so you can binge-watch Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, or whatever other platform until your brain turns to soup. Same-day Amazon delivery for that random gadget you "needed" at 2 a.m. Grocery stores so overstocked they throw out more food than entire countries produce. Endless app stores full of solutions for problems you didn’t even know you had.

All of that? Brought to you by a system that rewards innovation, risk-taking, and a little bit of greed... instead of pretending we can all hold hands, sing Kumbaya, and share the spoils equally.

Meanwhile, socialism? Every single time it’s been "tried," it’s ended the same way... shortages, oppression, and body counts. USSR. Mao's China. Cambodia. Venezuela. North Korea. Oh, but "real socialism has never been tried," right? That’s the rallying cry. The fallback for every college kid with a Che t-shirt and zero life experience.

Newsflash: smarter, harder people than you did try it. It still turned to ash. The problem isn’t the implementation. The problem is the system itself. It assumes humans aren’t selfish, power-hungry, or lazy. Spoiler alert: they are. And if you think you’re gonna be one of the ones in charge when it comes, you’re delusional. You won’t be sipping soy lattes in the planning committee. You’ll be in the mines, standing in the same breadline as the rest of us, wondering how the fuck you got there.

Capitalism has flaws, but it’s adaptive. Dynamic. It lets people fail, but it also lets them try again. That’s why even America’s "poor" are sitting in air conditioning, scrolling TikTok on a smartphone that costs more than some people’s annual income overseas. By global standards, the bottom rung here is still in the top 1% of earners worldwide.

So yeah... keep screaming about capitalism while using every single one of its fruits. You’re not a revolutionary. You’re a well-fed, comfortable consumer who’s been sold a lie and drank it down like Kool-Aid at Jonestown.

Grow up. Think. Stop parroting garbage you don’t understand.

And here’s the part no one wants to say out loud: socialism doesn’t just fail because of "bad leaders" or "wrong implementation." It fails because it always leads to force. It has to.

When you rob people of the fruits of their labor... when you punish those who build and reward those who don’t... you don’t create fairness. You kill incentive. Slowly at first, then all at once. Fewer and fewer people bother to produce because why would they? Why break your back when the spoils are handed out equally to the guy who sat on his ass?

And when production dries up and the system begins to starve, the government doesn’t admit it was wrong. It doubles down. It sharpens its knives. It sends men with rifles to your factory or your farm and tells you to get back to work... for "the good of the people." Refuse? You’re branded an enemy of the state. Speak out? You disappear in the night.

History isn’t subtle here. Stalin’s gulags. Mao’s re-education camps. Pol Pot’s killing fields. Venezuela’s armed colectivos kicking down doors. Every single time, the utopia ends the same way: breadlines, secret police, and mass graves.

This isn’t some edgy "what if" fantasy. It’s human nature laid bare. The Mark 1.0 human being is selfish, fearful, and power-hungry when cornered. Socialism bets it isn’t. Capitalism assumes it is... and builds guardrails around that ugly truth.

Ooh and while capitalism lets you rage against it from your iPhone, sipping your over priced latte in a well lite airconditioned venue. Socialism silences you with a rifle in the dark.