Reply #95: Of course you're right about that. It's just that it's impossible to

[DevonRex]

buy anything currently that doesn't benefit capitalism in some way - unless you live in a commune that's totally off the grid.

A regular person might be able to grow their own food and even barter that food for some necessities. But at some point, something has to be bought from capitalistic vendors. And then that person would be participating in and perpetuating capitalism.

We all do it because that's the system we live in, unfortunately. We've lost the ability to take care of ourselves. We can't even produce the tools needed to tend our own gardens, much less generate electricity or any of the other things we depend on.

Unless there's a huge economic upheaval that forces the US to change to a different system, we're left with doing what little we can in order to minimize our participation in capitalism. And it's not much when you get right down to it.