capitalism who?

What is capitalism? Maybe I don't know exactly, but I know it's more than just buying and selling things, which has been done around the globe for many millennia before anything like capitalism ever appeared on this planet. In the three hundred thousand year span of human existence, capitalism is just a tiny blip. If you don't like the word capital or capitalism, feel free to call our current system by some other name. But whatever it's called, it's this thing that requires us to organize our entire lives around wage labor, creating surplus value which is extracted by an elite ownership class as profit, the infinite growth of which is reimagined as society's highest priority. Whatever you wish to call it, ours is a system that builds millions of houses that stay empty while millions of people live on the street. A system that prevents a transition to solar and wind power which are cheaper, but you only have to pay for it once and therefore isn't as profitable as fossil fuels where you…