GlyphI would never describe myself as a "capitalist" but I do kinda understand the structure and function of markets a little bit, and it's sometimes frustrating chatting with leftists whose entire experience of markets has been watching the enormous trash-fire of post-2008 dysfunctional crime-based capitalism destroy the possibility of them ever owning a home. Like if you really liked trains but lived in a town where 3/4 of the population had been killed by a chemical supply train derailment
2ยข@glyph Dichotomania. The impulse to label something complex simplistically and to reductively determine it to be good or evil. To be championed or opposed.
Capitalism, and political systems generally, are especially subjected to this.
Capitalism is not just imposed. It also happens organically as does socialism simultaneously everywhere. All systems require educated, engaged citizenry to function well, Then the labels become less significant.