Capitalism is often presented as the big problem by the media. People seem to take for granted the prosperity that was achieved embracing capitalism and forget about the horrors that can be seen in the still existing anti-capitalist countries.

There are undoubtably a lot of problems, almost wherever we look. But these are not the consequence of too much capitalism as is being told. In the contrary they are a product of corruption in capitalism and the solution is a return to basic concepts of free markets.

Who wins in a game where one player makes the rules?

Capitalism is a system of game theoretical guaranteed stability. Bad actors have to compete among themselves, creating prosperity while doing so. There is no central authority and all prices are found in a decentralised manner taking into account the offers and bids of all market participants. It is a way to promote voluntary and peaceful human cooperation.

Also capitalism was not invented by humans, it does not need people enforcing it, it just naturally appears unless people try to suppress it by force. This is why socialists always end up suppressing the population, because this is the only way to keep the naturally appearing markets down. And this is also why the present 'liberal' oligarchs are tightening their controll of the population.

What we see in todays economy is far away from free capitalism. Instead we have overly regulated and controlled markets. Regulation can be good and markets will always self-regulate to some extend. But we are seeing central regulation that is nothing but arbitrary market interference. And of course it is massively exploited.

While many think that regulation is only a minor problem, it fundamentally breaks the game theoretical foundation of capitalism. Free capitalism has a nash equilibrium of decentralised controll and offering services that fulfil customers demands at a minimum price. As soon as you introduce a central party, the nash equilibrium changes to trying to take advantage and controll that central authority.

Regulations may seem to target all market participants equally, but often conforming to them has a large cost. And this cost benefits larger players while being prohibitive for small competitors. The large ones dont even pay the price as they can push it forward to the consumer. And it becomes even worse, the large players often give advise (or outright decide) on which regulation should be imposed. Of course these end up not affecting the dominant players, while new innovation is made illegal.
This can be seen everywhere in our markets. All of the big players have huge lobby groups that are pushing legislators to distort the market in their interest.

Then there is another trick that can be played. Legislators can push for new laws that make it necessary for others to buy their product. When this works out it guarantees a huge profit for the dominant companies. An artificial demand is created that the markets cannot meet. Prices shoot up while customers are forced to buy at these prices.

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Most of the decisions made by the bureaucrats only seem logical on the surface. Looking deeper almost everything is corrupt; dominant market participants just pushing their own interests. The consumer in the end pays for the madness. Getting bad and expensive products because outdated companies are protected from competition by tight regulation and markets cornered by laws. The state is not the regulator of companies in the interest of the people, it is the protector of an established elite imposing their will on us by the threat of force.

Nowadays most profits are not made by selling quality products, but directly derive from market manipulation via government action. Money and political power are so mixed that they become essentially the same thing. An oligarchy that extracts all value from our productivity and funnels it upwards.

Instead of playing a fair competitive game our markets are like playing a game with an unstable 8 year old kid that invites new rules along the game and throws a fit when things dont look well. Guess who wins that game ..