Capitalism is an economic system that is about the aquisition of private property and how that there is a need for constant competition even if it is not necessary or beneficial. It is also akin to a religion because you have to believe that there is value in money and the economy and rich capitalists are often portrayed as little guys who were able to work hard to their success. It has created a culture where people need to constantly work in order to survive or else they will not be able to have shelter or to eat. People look down on people who do not work and live off of government welfare or disability money and also look down on homeless people. Many people do this because they feel that these types of people are not contributing to society and they deserve to work to live. You can see this mentality with the US republican party with them being for cutting social programs. It is just a more modern version of a jungle mindset. Capitalism also encourages things like artificial scarcity since people need to work in order to survive. Examples of this include burning or throwing away food supplies, understocking certain items to create more demand, intellectual "property" and drm.
For instance, nowadays if you buy a video game, it is often infected by drm and you are not outright owning the game but have a license to access which can be revoked at any time. Here is the eula of a sega game with denuvo on steam saying you have no right to ownership (source) and sega views all the characters and assets of the game as their property. In this case, the capitalist company that is distributing the game to other people still views the game as their property despite letting people install the game on their own machines. If people had drm free copies of their games, companies would be afraid that they would be losing profit since the ability to share the game is not restricted and they would not be able to monitor people's habits with what they do with their games. Many popular games are gratis to play live service games. These games often include microtransactions that enourage people especially children to spend a lot of money on these games rather than a one time purchase. It is much more profitable to have stuff like cometics or something in the game where you have to pay money to get an advantage over other players rather than just paying money once to get full access to a game.
People are taught from a young age to become worker drones. People are put on a path from birth to go to k-12 schooling, then college, and then work until old age. However retirement age keeps going up which makes it so a lot of people have to deal with perpetual slavery.
There are certain jobs that are pointless but many people still do them. For example, there are self checkout machines but there are still cashier jobs. Someone whose job is to bag groceries is useless since the cashier or customer can do it themselves. As we are seeing now with AI, it has started to replace many jobs. But since people are living in a system where they have to work to live, many of these pointless jobs are still around.
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