Capitalism relies on positive incentives. Create a better or cheaper product or service, and people will voluntarily give you their money in exchange for it. If enough people give you their money in exchange for what you are producing, you might get rich.
This is childlike, delusional ideology.
It's not what capitalism is. It's like saying that rabbits are like the one in "Alice in Wonderland" - nice to read, but not the truth.
Not understanding what capitalism is, is a big problem for many people. First and foremost, is understanding that it's a very broad term that prevents discussion of issues. Mom and pop shop selling candy, energy company destroying the atmosphere, blowing up mountains to make a buck, a group who sell crack cocaine to children, a dangerous factory filled with child workers paid very little - all "capitalism".
It would be like trying to discuss issues where the only word you could use was 'economic system'. So the US, Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, and Sweden - all just 'economic systems' as opposed to groups of people who have no economic system, like cavemen who live like animals. How useful for discussion of issues.
Spoiler alert: some forms of 'capitalism' are very good at creating wealth; whether that results in a 'good system' where people prosper like the two women in your photo, or in tyranny and things like the lower photo, depends on the TYPE of capitalism, not just being 'capitalism'.
One of the many issues with 'capitalism' is how it allows for some groups of people to be exploited to benefit other groups. If you can buy nice things cheaply because of a factory of slave workers overseas, what do you care? If you live nicely in the early US because of slave labor, who cares? If you're an owner of a large corporation that does a lot of harm to make money and it lets you live as a jet-setter, who cares?
Who doesn't care is "capitalism". None of these problems are solved by the system of capitalism - they're only solved by people having good values, and the public having the power to enforce those values against the people who want to profit by violating them, i.e., democracy and a free press to inform them.
Don't like the factories being filled with cheap child labor? It's laws, not capitalism, that prevents it. The only language capitalism speaks is "price", and if causing harm increases profit and reduces prices, it wins. It's a system with built-in huge incentives for harm and tyranny for most, and the only way to prevent the harm and tyranny are for there to be systems to limit capitalism - laws and democracy.
And you can see where these thing have worked in the past. Horrors of meat-packing plants were exposed, and a public backlash led to reform (including the FDA to regulate the industry). Environmental harm was exposed, and a public backlash led to reform (including the EPA to regulate the industry). Child labor was exposed and a public backlash led to reform (including labor laws to regulate the industry).
It's a very large topic, the topic of the types of capitalism - Democratic Capitalism, Predatory Capitalism, Unregulated Capitalism or 'Naked Capitalism', and many more issues, but let's not forget your other false, simplistic argument.
Socialism relies on negative incentives. People who work for the state are primarily interested in keeping their jobs. They are paid the same amount regardless of what they produce or how they produce it, because the money for their pay is taken from people coercively, via taxation.
Socialism is such a tortured word, it also means nothing and everything. A public water system the government runs to insure everyone has affordable if not free water, and the tyranny of Mao's China, are both just "socialism" to you.
But you're even worse than THAT, you are in the 'taxation = coercion, evil end it' group. Hint: every society that has ever existed and likely will ever exist, has taxation. Like the two words above that you simplistically use for broad things, there are 'good' uses of taxation, like those water systems, and 'bad' uses of taxation, and that's the issue, not 'taxes = coercion, evil'.
(And before you launch into yet another delusional rant about how much better we'd be if the wonderful, efficient private sector were in charge of water, not 'socialist' systems, no, we wouldn't. And in fact, water is beginning to be seen as a profitable commodity to try to control by predatory capitalists - as the people of Bolivia could tell you, where private companies bought the rights to control water, and created huge price increases many couldn't afford,which 'capitalism' didn't care about but the people did, and rioted, and there was still enough democracy to respond by undoing the move to privatization instead of just killing the people, which is what capitalism would have done because of its incentives.)
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