This is already happening. People are conditioned to embrace capitalism, where a small percentage of the population are born into the owning class, and a majority who labour.
This is already happening. People are conditioned to embrace capitalism, where a small percentage of the population are born into the owning class, and a majority who labour.
I think that's called feudalism. Maybe our reality doesn't work like it's named and we are starting to have other system despite what we are calling it.
Being told how my grandma had problems and was eventually told to shut down her knitting production (done in free time in addition to regular work) by police in the Communist Poland, I believe that it's better to have somehow upgraded capitalism then try to build a good communism just one more time.
It still got her enough extra buck to build a house in the city after moving out from the village.
Communism is neither the opposite of laissez-faire capitalism nor the only alternative.
The opposition to capitalism have such a disastrous track record, economically and in terms of body count, that embracing capitalism is far more sensible.
I'm not saying that the other systems, by which I assume you mean the various marxist political projects, are good (and we won't even get into how many of those alternatives were actually not-capitalism) but I think to dismiss the "body count" of capitalism while simultaneously ascribing all deaths under those alternative systems as the direct result of {otherSystem} is extremely disingenuous. Doubly so given that modern first-world capitalism often outsources the human cost of it's milieu to the third world so that middle-class suburbanites don't have to see real price of their mass-produced lifestyles.
Modern Western countries mostly drifted towards a mix of capitalism and social democracy.
"modern first-world capitalism often outsources the human cost of it's milieu to the third world"
This is a bit of "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
If you don't do any business with poorer countries, you can be called a heartless isolationist who does not want to share any wealth and only hoards his money himself.
If you do business with poorer countries, but let them determine their own internal standards, you will be accused of outsourcing unpleasant features of capitalism out of your sight.
If you do business with poorer countries and simultaneously demand that they respect your standards in ecology, human rights etc., you will be accused of ideological imperialism and making impossible demands that a poorer country cannot realistically meet.
Pick your poison.
The alternative systems were just as willing to plunder their satellite states and the third world IIRC as the capitalists were so it would be an equal demerit for both, I'd think?