I can't speak for my whole generation, but I used to be nearly ancap in highschool. We were coming of age a few years after the first dot-com crash, and it look

I can't speak for my whole generation, but I used to be nearly ancap in highschool. We were coming of age a few years after the first dot-com crash, and it looked like a temporary market correction. The War On Terror still didn't sound like a joke, technology and the Web were still exciting and changing and hadn't gone completely walled-garden yet. The game plan was simple, especially with Boomer parents: do well in highschool, do well in college, and then either get a good job (Boomer suggested) or start your own thing (Boomer accepted). 2008 hit, money gets tight for everyone, stock market tanks, and all of us watch as the bankers get bailed out--the ones with enough friends, anyways. My first company's accounts got acquired when Chase ate Washington Mutual and then charged us service fees until they'd drained our meager J2ME game profits. It was abundantly clear that "capitalism", as being practiced in the United States, was not a free market. 2011, a bit over three years later, Occupy Wall Street happened. A lot of protests happened. I saw protests in Houston--after work, of course!--and would later learn that threatened sniper actions against the protestors were ignored by the police. In Oakland, police shot an Iraw veteran in the head with anti-riot gear, landed him in critical condition in the hospital, and nobody gave a shit. In New York, in Zuccotti, the protests were more a spectacle for the bankers and finance folks than a serious way of changing the system, mostly because of the frivolous hippy shit that took it over. In all cases, they were made fun of by the media until they dissolved from internal disorganization and distraction. The "We are the 99%" site was brilliant marketing and had such a clear message of desperation that it probably could've galvanized the entire Occupy movement, but instead we ended up with a bunch of environmentalists and progressives and hippies who were all bitching about their niche agendas and somehow failing to see in their echochamber intersectionality that they weren't saying anything that 95% of the rest of the 99% gave two shits about. And now, in 2015, I see that the startup ecosystem and game is basically based on squeezing labor out of early employees while paying lip service to "visionary" founders. I see that large companies are bemoaning the lack of trained devs and yet who are pushing H1B support at the same time that everybody is pointing out the aggressive "train your foreign replacement" techniques of those same companies. I see great swaths of the Internet grown fat upon the domestic surveillance of advertising, a rot so deep that it'll probably kill off something like half of humanity's accumulated output from the last few years because it'll suddenly no longer be economical. And in this total ratfuck, finally, people are starting to go after the perceived oppressors--ye olde cisthet while males--because that's a more convenient target than grappling with the forces that put them there and are finding ways of flaying them still further in pursuit of the all might dollar. So, yeah, you're damned right I don't believe in capitalism anymore.