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I don't know about "Capatalism" but "Capitalism" doesn't require stealing value. All capitalism requires is private ownership of the means of production and using it to generate profit. If you're a painter and buy paint, an easel and some canvas, and use that to sell portraits, you're doing capitalism.
Most zoomers are anti-capitalist because they don't actually know what capitalism is, and can't really picture what it would actually be like in a different kind of economic system. Anybody who grew up after 1989 hasn't actually seen a world where any other economic system exists. Capitalism was an attempt to improve a world dominated by monopolies, with big tariffs and trade barriers, where workers had no freedom to change jobs and had to fight over the scraps left over from the wealthy. If that sounds like the current world, it's because we're backsliding from capitalism back towards mercantilism and feudalism. Not because capitalism sucks.
Capitalism != free market.
Under a free market, a painter buys paint, an easel and some canvas at prices set by supply and demand, and then paints and sells portraits again at a price set by supply and demand.
Under capitalism, an artist wants to start a painting business, so he goes to a rich person or group of rich people and says "If you give me some money to start my painting business, I will give you a share in ownership of the business and its profits." with this so-called capital, the artist rents or buys a building and supplies and operates the business to effectively pay back that loan. The working class make a living and the rich get richer for having been rich.
You steal value by creating monopolies. You steal it by artificial controlling resources, your "capital" so that no one else can benifit. You price gouge, manipulate, spread propaganda, and lie. Make dirty deals behind closed doors. Undercut your competition.
Pro capitalist always leave out all the awful tactics capatilism employs to do things that require you to buy from them. That's the theft. Gaming the system to put people in hard places. Baiting the general populace to bad behaviors all for the means of profit.
We shouldn't be required to play a game of literal monopoly to survive.
Free market capatilism is a joke. Capatilism only drives invitation of the business model and freedom for the owning class at the expense of the people.
What's the difference between feudalism and capatilism when corporations own ever piece of property on this spec of dust and you're required to rent? Still playing the rules of capital, but without any of the rewards. Think about it. I doubt you own your house. The bank probably owns it just like it owns a majority of peoples. Probably the same thing with your car. Your education. Hell even your life depending on how your health is. People who have to pay 1000s to insurance companies every year just to stay alive. For insulin treatment that was sold for a 1$ by its creator for the good of humanity. Monopolized. You aren't a capitalst if you own nothing.
Most people own nothing because that's the goal of capatilism.
The perfect company has no employees, sells no product, carries no debts, yet takes from everyone it can. It is the nature of capatilism to shuffle towards this structure.
The US in the 1989s had Europe and the rest of the world by the balls by being the global reserve currency. A system put in place after world war 2 where Europe basically sold itself to the United States. Everyone had to spend money and buy it in debt while the US had the keys to the printing press.
When you take out a loan why do they charge you interest? If you don't pay your loan back they will simply toss you in prison or reposes what meager property you have. Garnish your wages? What incitive does interest serve? It's just their to keep you paying, to keep you under your feudal lord.
Somethings just shouldn't have a price tag and should be owned by the people.
The term capitalism was coined by socialists to describe existing systems where wealth accumulated into the hands of the bourgeoisie. Only later did the supporters of the existing system attempt to "reclaim" capitalism and change the meaning to this nonsense. Capitalism is not "an attempt to improve a world dominated by monopolies," monopolies are the bread and butter of capitalism.
Painters owned their own paint supplies under feudalism. Were they "doing capitalism?" No, capitalism is not something you "do" on an individual level, it is a system that exists, and which has only existed for a few hundred years. Capitalism does not mean simply trading or owning tools.
Monopolies are the bread and butter of mercantilism. Capitalism was seen as a way to break up those monopolies.