>>151991>socialism is not when the government does stuffSocialism is when a centralized bureaucracy controls the economy. So the path to most profit comes from serving the bureaucracy rather than the end consumers. That's why everything has a rainbow flag on it. It's something the bureaucracy wants not the consumers.
>in capitalism companies want to extract as much profit from people as possibleWhich means they have to give the people what they want. In a free market companies live and die depending on whether people buy their shit. That means the people are in charge not the shareholders.
>pardon me but what the fuck are you talking about?This shouldn't be hard for you the wrap your head around, the billionaire class don't want to be at the constant mercy of the masses. They don't want to be one Bud Light incident away from losing everything. They don't want a free market.
What they want is to centralize the economy under a single political institution. They will give the people some illusionary power (you get to vote for the orange twitter troll or the corrupt dementia patient). Regardless of who or what you vote for the billionaire class will sit atop the centralized economy exploiting you forever.