I don’t think blaming capitalism is a complete answer, here - the functioning company in step one was capitalist. There was, at that point, a group of people making stuff to sell for profit, and it was working okay. (Should’ve been unionized a decade ago, and management probably committed criminal skeezery, but the company did function.) There’s nothing fundamentally impossible or self-contradictory about expecting the part where people do stuff for money to keep doing the thing it’s for. On some level, this is people being bad at capitalism.
Some rich assholes buy your functioning company
Rich assholes fuck up trying to get even richer
Functioning company is somehow screwed
Over and over and over, lately.
I don’t think blaming capitalism is a complete answer, here - the functioning company in step one was capitalist. There was, at that point, a group of people making stuff to sell for profit, and it was working okay. (Should’ve been unionized a decade ago, and management probably committed criminal skeezery, but the company did function.) There’s nothing fundamentally impossible or self-contradictory about expecting the part where people do stuff for money to keep doing the thing it’s for. On some level, this is people being bad at capitalism.