[DeonPenny]

This video seem so wrong headed. It never asks those people want they do it for. And it also starts off on a terrible premise that they doing evil deads. You say this on a computer built by capitalist, on internet built by capitalist, on a website built by YC capitalist who empower other capitalist.

Capitalism is literally just a system where people can trade things they want for things they need. And capitalist build things people want. If people wanted economic safe,environmental goods they could have it given they would give other resources to gain them. Look at tesla, spacex, apple computers, kiva, and all the companies that build environmental friendly tools.

If anything remotivation needs to be done to government not capitalism but that system is far more broken than the capitalist system that seems to be working fine in comparison to every other system.

[lucian1900]

You could just as well have complained that those criticising feudalism were still eating food and wearing clothes and using weapons built under it.

Capitalism isn’t trade. It is a system of production where the means of production are privately owned (by capitalists/the bourgeoisie) and are laboured with by those that don’t own property (the workers/proletariat), while the owners appropriate a portion of the value of that labour as profits.

[DeonPenny]

You can't just redefine what adam smith said about the concept of modern capitalism. What you described can be easily said about north korea. The elite own everything and the workers own nothing. Is north korea capitalist. NO! Cause the workers can't built or create anything of their own.

In the US thats why 80% of the millionaires are self made. Because someone in a middle class or lower class can make something people want and people can choose to give them money. Working and not owning anything isn't static in this system

[lucian1900]

I gave you an expanded textbook definition. Here’s Wikipedia’s: “Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.”

Have you been to the DPRK? Who told you the means of production there aren’t controlled democratically by workers? Was it perhaps media owned by capitalists with a vested interest in slandering alternatives to capitalism?

[DeonPenny]

But you can't expand a definition that was already define. You can make apples also include oranges just because you don't like the definition of what an apple it.

[lucian1900]

Wikipedia's definition also describes it in terms of who owns the means of production and what motivates production.