Poverty, debt, global warming, over-productivity, anxiety and burnout.
It pushes us and pushes us, to work not caring about our happiness.
Conglomerates who own many brands, create monopolies and increase prices.
Robbers in the system who take more than what they give.
It sucks.
And before capitalism? It was kings, and empire and slaves. If you’re born into the whole family, you’re stuck. I’m not sure if we want that either.
On the other end, in the same capitalist system.
Patagonia gave $3 billions for the climate with the system of capitalism.
People built libraries, museums, and Wikipedia.
Capitalism gave us more choices. To be born as we are, and through a series of choices create our life. We benefit from the positive choice and learn from negative consequences.
Capitalism gave us (almost) equal opportunity, but not equal outcomes.
Almost equal opportunity because we are humans. And humans have bias.
Unequal outcomes because people make different choices. And different choices create different outcomes.
We have choices to change our jobs, to support local with spending habits. And make things better.
There are people who work hard, and give back.
And many others who improve on capitalism, install guardrails and policies to make the system better.
As GK Chesterton says, “Capitalism is the worst form of economic arrangement, except for all the other ones that we’ve tried.”
Instead of blaming, I wonder what’s a better system? And more importantly, how will you choose to spend that choice today?
