Oh, and the reason it's mutually exclusive to democracy has already been demonstrated with Citizens United and putting unlimited dark money into elections and politics. If the law can be purchased, the wealthy have all the means and motivation they can to strip mine anything of value and pay for the propaganda calling it good.
The majority of all news is owned by billionaires telling us how to feel about what they tell us happens.
The Nixon campaign ADMITTED the war on drugs was a front to marginalize anti war leftists and black people. By criminalizing cannabis, they not only stifled Vietnam protests and the civil rights movement but also protected the profits of pharmaceutical corps, the alcohol industry, and the paper/wood industry.
The 24/7 news cycle came along to keep us hyper stimulated with bullshit we don't even notice the things that matter and front line reporting has become a thing of the past specifically because of how motivated it made people to speak out.
Now, if you complain about Palestinian genocide you get called anti semitic by bots paid for by corporate interests and foreign states.
It's all theater to keep us scared and fractured while they work us to death, steal our retirement with bubbles they pump and dump, and then start resource wars so poor kids will die for a chance at college.
Man vs woman, black vs white, gay or straight, it's all divide and conquer to keep the workers from realizing the one fight that matters is the have nots vs the have yahcts.
The priority of news should be telling us what is happening in the world. Instead, it's ad revenue, clicks, and sensationalism.
You have no rights when truth has become a toy of the ultra rich drunk on their own farts.
Unfortunately, what many don't realize is a win for capitalism is a loss for basically everyone else.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169
Tldr- the endlessly parroted "capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty" notion stems from a study that basically equated subsistence farming to poverty because despite meeting all their needs and desires it made zero money per day.
Basically, the entire notion that capitalism is swell is a lot like saying Africans were better off as slaves because they were previously unemployed and then given jobs. Which is basically the first argument capitalists tried to make while "extracting value" with the slave trade.