It is and it isn’t. Capitalism comes in many flavours, and the flavour that has emerged right now is the same which emerged around the 17th century - that is to

It is and it isn’t. Capitalism comes in many flavours, and the flavour that has emerged right now is the same which emerged around the 17th century - that is to say, absurd wealth concentration and states being powerless against their elites - which generally resulted in revolution, or the mass export and mollification of would-be revolutionaries through colonialism. Part of the problem was, is that serfs, sorry, consumers, do not have market power in the face of vast monopolies which have achieved regulatory capture. They eventually realise, when sufficiently pissed off, that they do have power, en masse - but now more than ever we have an endless mire of distraction, and mass learned helplessness - are you with the People’s Front of Judea, or the Judean People’s Front? Oh, who cares, they’re bringing the lions out.