Exit polling released after voting centers began to close Sunday evening showed opposition candidate Edmundo González taking 65 percent of the vote, more than doubling Maduro’s 31 percent, Edison Research reported. Venezuelans were waiting for official results.
Capitalism, as in, the ones with the money own all the things and make more money with the money they already have, is pretty fucking terrible.
That’s what we have now, that’s why governments are corrupted and powerless against the financial interests of the few in the face of ecologic disaster. That’s why we must constantly justify our right to exist by selling out our lifetime for cheap, so we may afford food and shelter for yet another day; why everything gets commodified and turned to shit. Why people go hungry in the face of plenty, why we have homeless and empty homes, why we are in constant wars of greed.
Capitalism is a failed concept, old and long overcome systems of hierarchy and oppression translated to the modern world. Back then it was emperors and kings, now we have global corporations and billionaires who wield more money and power than most lords of old.
Now after that sermon, capitalism is defined through the capitalist class, the private owners of the land, resources, and means of production who have ceased providing value to the system and economy, and exist only off the gains made by their possessions and investments. This is the systemic flaw (by design): wealth and possessions, and with that also power, accumulate in fewer and fewer hands, even over generations through inheritance.
Now not having this class in the economic system would alleviate most issues with a market based economy, which today we know synonymously as capitalism, and could be achieved in various ways, even without a move towards a planned economy such as communism.
One example I like to cite on these matters is the Freiwirtschaft:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft