I've noticed a growing popularity of pseudo leftist attitude and language and it actually makes it feel like it's harder to talk about real anti-capitalism.
To me it's kind of like when a kid starts learning new big words and wants to use them but they don't really know how to use them correctly.
Something that I have noticed as a trend lately is confusing anti-company or even attacking any part of a company as thinking that that is hurting the CEO or is justified because the CEO is stealing massive amounts of money and not paying their workers a livable wage.
I'll give an example that I came across. So it was one of those skits and the skit was essentially that the plane had overbooked like it normally does and they were wanting some people to give up their seats. The stewardess was mentioning how much money they were willing to give and some people were trying to bring the number up so that they could get more money to get them to leave. Again this is a skit.
What's interesting though is that the very real comments I assume, were basically defending the customers and not understanding that the stewardess doesn't have a lot of control over how much money they are able to give out. Even if the stewardess is able to bring the number up a little bit they may still be required to stay within a certain range. And yet if you point this out people called me a bootlicker.
Turns out I think that we're in the trifecta of Fuck the CEO, I want to do the Fuck I want, and Help the employee, people want to do whatever they perceive will Fuck the CEO more even if in reality what they're doing is hurting employees more or what they're doing isn't hurting the CEO.
I'm actually thinking that people just don't like capitalism because they're not winning and not because they recognize it as the exploitative imperialistic system that it is.