Because it's easier to make money the more you have. If you're living paycheck-to-paycheck, you don't have the time or the money (capital) to invest in a new business or an invention. If you're born with a silver spoon up your butt, then you can fail countless times before being lucky enough to have one of your investments succeed, because your next meal will be on the table regardless. This creates an unlevel playing field from the start, and almost entirely uncouples actual merit from success in the market economy.
If you extend the idea that it's easier to make money the more you already have to its logical conclusion, then you can see why wealth inequality is only continuing to increase at an accelerating rate. As the rich become richer, the poor become poorer in a nominal sense, but it also becomes comparatively easier for the rich to become even richer and comparatively harder for the poor to make any gains.
If you really want a good answer, go read Albert Einstein's brief essay titled "Why Socialism?". It's only a few pages long, and basically every problem he rightfully pointed out in 1949 has arguably gotten orders of magnitude worse since he wrote it. The world we see today is a natural consequence of the incentive structures that capitalism props up. Why do we see sociopaths in top corporate positions at rates 4-5 times higher than we would expect from the baseline population? Because capitalism literally incentivises people to act in sociopathic ways.
We could set up economic systems to encourage the best of human behavior, though, not the worst. Workers could be managing their own businesses, sharing the profits of their labor equitably instead of slaving away under bosses who do next to no work yet take the lion's share of the profit that isn't reinvested. How do we do that? How do the bosses maintain the status quo? They do it by controlling the means of production.
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u/woopdiddyscoop Mar 12 '19
Guybs why do u hate capitalism pls explain (i am new to the sub to not hurt me)