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Capitalism is the political philosophy emphasizing the private ownership of person, property, and enterprise.

To this idiot it just means "anything to do with making money and corporations I think".

The laws that make corporate entities legal persons are socialist in nature, capitalism emphasizes personal responsibility and accountability which come as being inherently bundled with ownership.

The laws that force corporations to act in the financial interest of their shareholders is also socialist, again, for the same reasons.

The intervention of government with private enterprises which creates the monopolies, oligopolies, and plutocracy is also socialist, not capitalist.

The issue with anticapitalism on here is down to misconceptions of what capitalism is, they have a mental image of what capitalism looks like, and so they criticize socialist policies than seem to them to have the appearance of capitalism, when in fact they are violations of capitalist political philosophy.

Newsflash, people get rich under socialism socialism rich people don't have unlimited power or privileges under capitalism.

Think about the definitions of the ideas and if the actions taken are consistent with the ideologies before criticizing some ideology using these actions that may actually be in violation of the ideas which you are trying to criticize with them.

I'm OK with people pointing out the flaws in capitalism, legitimate criticism has been what has led me away from a purely capitalist position, but these idiotic criticisms of something that isn't representative of capitalism as if it were is not helpful at all.