Confessions of a recovering Libertarian: How I escaped a world of Ron Paul hero worship

[Rassah]

83. Actually I am

I invest, I sell services, I own property and companies (and a charity), and I'm probably in the 1%, or damn near close to it.

The people you are thinking of are corporatists and oligarchs, not capitalists. They are the assholes who are trying to do all the bad things you mentioned, and are pretty much all of the republican party. I don't know who is trying to muddy the waters by trying to link "capitalists" who are basically "anyone trading goods and services" with those assholes. It's probably both sides of the extreme, since far left socialists/communists think everything should be shared and claiming ownership of property (essential to capitalism) is unfair and deprives others to the right to use us, and far right corporatists and oligarchs don't like capitalists because them being able to easily start businesses and trade goods and services (function of capitalism) creates competition for the monopolies they fought so hard (aka paid the government so much) to establish and protect.

I wasn't really aware of the Republican party's attack on capitalism until I got into bitcoin, a seemingly innocent little money system that just lets you send tokens of value back and forth directly between people, no different than swapping paper cash notes. When we tried to expand this to things like vendor machines that can sell it on the streets (ATMs), or set up businesses that let people trade in it, use it to send remittances to families overseas, or even establish bitcoin accounts as something a business or charity could use, we suddenly had SO MANY crazy ridiculous regulations and restrictions come down that it was pretty blatantly obvious that their only purpose was to protect the established oligarchs.