The hate for capitalism 1 min read
many people seem to hate capitalism.
they curse Amazon for firing 30,000 workers,
and blame capitalism for being heartless:
greedy, unfair, exploitative!
what about the shareholders?
strangely:
no one ever curses the public shareholders,
the millions of ordinary people whose retirement funds,
index funds, and pension plans quietly benefit
every time these big companies grow — who quietly benefit from it
capitalism becomes an easy villain,
a symbol we point at when something feels unjust.
yet behind every “evil corporation,”
there are layers of individual beneficiaries
who rarely get mentioned.
that feel of losing & powerless
maybe we don’t actually hate capitalism.
maybe we just hate feeling powerless inside a system
that rewards some people more than others.
we hate being on the losing side of a game
that we didn’t consciously choose to play.
who invent capitalism?
Amazon didn’t invent capitalism.
no single company did.
we collectively built this system
through billions of daily decisions.
from every trade, every purchase, every investment.
the system is not an external monster;
it’s a reflection of us.
it’s an irony that writes itself.