Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but these vices pre-existed. Capitalism merely came along to monetize them. Greed was there from the start. Capitalism was the app that codified, amplified, digitized and weaponized it. It dignified savagery, giving it a high-tech facelift. It justified predation, by turning it into financial transactions.
Capitalism is a trap that lured humans into believing they had created a stable world. Indeed, an economy where everyone exploits everyone else is surprisingly stable in the short term – by some measure, even more stable than an economy based on respect: people give each other respect only on an optional basis, but they will give each other money and guns in steady, consistent, monthly drips of greed called salaries and aid packages.
However toxic, this necroeconomic system quickly found the magic bullet that secured its immortality: to constantly create new problems just as it solves existing ones, and to profit both from the problems it solves and the new ones it creates. As long as there is greed, people will always look for problems to profit from, and ways to create these problems beforehand. This is because problems are monetizable, while true happiness isn’t. True happiness just exists, it just “is”. True happiness doesn’t need improvements, products, solutions, or wars. This is why in a truly happy world there is no need for capitalism, fascism, or even democracy, let alone governing structures. These are all systems that thrive on creating problems rather than solving them.
It was written on the wall from the start that all this would go horribly wrong. As it evolved, capitalist civilisation became a snowball of self-fraud: humans created products they didn’t need, jobs they didn’t like, and places they couldn’t live in. Life became a supermarket. We all exist in this supermarket not as consumers, but as products. There is no point in talking about consumers or their needs when this economic system is driven by the need to sell, not by humans. The methods this economic system employs reveal nothing but disrespect towards all biological life: wage slavery is a tool for censorship, genocide is a prerequisite for owning new lands, and environmental disaster a part of every new venture’s business plan.
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George Tsakraklides 
We humans are extremely neurotic animals. We have paid a high “price” for this super predator brain of ours that is comfortable exploiting every animate and seemingly inanimate type of matter. We suffer a serious identity problem. Who, what, and why am I. We have been searching for the final “solution”. We have always been victims of our own success.
It seemed social justice religion brought that reality of the double sides of human nature and a long view of the waning and waxing of empires in history to the left. Unfortunately, it could neither escape it’s own humanity-greed, jealousy etc. nor could it overcome the onslaught of money fueled counter propaganda from within the religion ranks. The “left” in my lifetime – caught in the it’s all “onwards and upwards” bs won a little victory here or there and then disbanded their campaign. An opposition unwilling to accept the reality of the world is not/has not been very useful.