[jacquesm]

Whether capitalism has been good to me or not is besides the point: you can wish for the moon but you will probably not get it, so it helps to set realistic and achievable goals. 'The revolution' isn't going to happen, as long as people are fed and there are 50 channels of sports, besides that typically they result in new bosses who are the same as the old bosses.

Capitalism, like democracy is broken, but it is the best we've got - so far. Replacing it outright with some new system that somehow magically overcomes all of the shortcomings of the old and does not introduce new ones is a pipe dream, but you can make moves to fix the biggest holes and then keep doing that until you have incrementally arrived at a much better solution.

As for my empathy with overpaid Googlers: given the choice to sympathize with them or with their nil contributing rent seeking shareholder billionaire overlord I will side with them, and given the choice between them and a homeless person, inmate or mentally ill person my sympathy will be with the latter. Dealing in absolutes will get you quite literally nowhere, it's tilting at windmills at best and a distraction at worst. But feel free to pursue your goals in your way and leave me to do the same in mine.

There isn't a hard choice between these and no reason why we can't both pursue our goals in different ways and end up in a better place. It increases the chances of positive change.

[auggierose]

No real disagreement here. Somebody needs to keep the old system running while I am working on the new one.