Let me preface this by saying that I am a physician and I benefit from our capitalistic society. I have worked plenty of shitty, low paying jobs along the way. I went straight from high school to medical school to residency and did not finish my training (and start really earning money) until I was 29 years old. I chose to work at a federally qualified health center to work with an underserved population out of residency, transitioned to working in the emergency department, and I am a board certified addiction medicine physician because I choose to help those who society ignores. I still have a good quality of life and benefit from our capitalistic approach to healthcare, even though I think it is wrong.
As we benefit from increased automation and our society has an abundance in resources, this should translate into universal health care, food, and housing as basic rights in the united states. Instead this has translated into the super rich getting super richer with ridiculous expenditures. In the meantime, homelessness increases, many still have difficulty accessing health care, and mental illness and substance use disorders spiral out of control while help and treatment lag far behind. Capitalism dismisses these as moral failures or laziness instead of addressing the income inequality that is the true virus that has infected out society. Much of our population watches records setting temperatures, fires, and floods and denies climate change. They do the same for the social disaster that our social policies are causing. This is not capitalism. Capitalism leaves the markets unfettered. We use our political machinery to help the rich, bail out companies that make bad decisions, and allow lobbyists to influence our politicians to prop up companies that rake in the profits. In the meantime, we support a multi-billionaire spewing CO2 into the atmosphere with his giant phallus, build a 580 million dollar yacht that requires a bridge to be taken apart, and avoid taxes yet we fail to take action.
People need a purpose. If you sit home and have nothing to do, this will not help your mental state. That purpose should not include being treated like shit or working crazy hours to get by. I've chosen a career where I have had to work over 100 hours a week (and 36 hours in a row) in training, work horrible hours (a lot of night shifts), and I've had to work the day after my first child was born (that was bullshit). I love what I do for work, but that was a choice. Everyone should have the opportunity to make that choice, not work themselves to death in an unrewarding job to survive.
I believe in capitalism. Capitalism should provide the opportunity to thrive without working crappy hours for a crappy job with no loyalty. Capitalism should allow you to start out at a low paying job and quickly work your way into middle class, have a house and a car, work a 40 hour a week job with a lot of vacation and time off when you are sick and have a child. What we have now is not capitalism, it is exploitation. The United States could easily support every person in having health care, food, and housing as a minimum and you can then work for more beyond that. You can be a capitalist and not shit on others in society to get more for yourself.