Capitalism rewards trade, patents, grift,
but above all, sales pitches.

The richest people in capitalism are the best orators
and tradespeople at the bazaar.
It’s what Steve Jobs is most famous for.
His infamous iPhone sales pitchis infamous the world over.
It’s what Elon Musk does, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,
Bill Gates, all of the big wigs in the world.
And they get rewarded for it like no other.

It’s why liberal democracy is associated with a person
on the soapbox trying to sell a crowd,
whatever they want to hear,
instead of a people’s democracy,
that has a council of political entities
around a table that debate each other,
where all members have power,
instead of a capitalist corporate board room,
with a corporate head that
appoints its subjects.
It’s not like neither have one or the other,
but it’s one more emblematic to their style of governing.

It’s why the US has Donald Trump.
What is he good at? What does he do?
He campaigns, relentlessly. That’s his sole quality.

Usonians (US citizens) seem to keep thinking that
capitalism is making money and socialism is when
capitalism fails at making money.

And I believe I will slightly go off Marx’ thought and
explain all socio-economic systems as such:

Primitivism = Gatherer ideologues + Hunter rule Feudalism = Priestly ideologues + Nobility rule
Capitalism = Judiciary ideologues + Merchantry rule
Socialism = Academic ideologues + Engineering rule
Communism = Copyleft ideologues? + AI rule?