If Elon Musk walks in a room with 4 homeless people, the average net worth will be R45billion and the group (can replace with country, state, republic) will be considered a success in capitalist state.
On the other hand, a communist state that refuse to have homeless people might have an average net worth of $200k and considered a poor nation and used to point out why Communism has failed… Americans lap this up every time with politicians using this as a tool to suppress communist views.
Americans mostly view capitalism favourably because of the aspirations of becoming wealthy even though statistically speaking this is an unattainable dream.