I don't think this has anything to do with capitalism. We have carpenters under capitalism and the companies hiring them don't force them into stand-ups every

I don't think this has anything to do with capitalism. We have carpenters under capitalism and the companies hiring them don't force them into stand-ups every morning with some guy who has never nailed two pieces of wood together who insists on following a rigid process of chopping up the work of framing a house into sprints, user stories and story points. I actually don't work as a programmer anymore (instead as a security consultant) and suffer no micromanagement (in fact, almost no management at all). I think this is just a unique nonsense which has developed around the practice of programming. Genuinely whether I am working on a project individually or as a team, myself and my teammates get complete freedom of how we go about doing our work as long as we uphold certain standards and produce certain deliverables. This definitely seems possible in the world of software development.