Almost nobody wants to overthrow capitalism. People want to make adjustments to the current form of it to address concerns. That’s very legitimate and necessary in a functioning democracy. The people who scream “socialism “ all the time just want to move the discussion to extremes
In regards to this, "Replace Capitalism" seems to be gaining ground faster than "Improve Capitalism".
43% of Americans say socialism would be a good thing for the country[1]
1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-f...
You are right, and that is exactly the problem, since it is something history proved impossible to be reformed.
EDIT: reforming capitalism is a long term desire from part of the humankind. It is not a new idea and has yield very long discussions [1]. So, the big idea today is indeed how to overthrow it in favour of another form of social organization.
[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revol...
We've had, and still have, the Nordic model.
Capitalism is dramatically different today than it was in the 1960s in most countries. We've had the monetarism/neoliberal experiment for 40 years.
We've had globalisation to completely disconnect capitalism (and capital) from government, country and employee - just join the global race to the bottom.
We have had a huge number of reforms to capitalism. Trouble is for the last 40 years all reforms have been in one direction: In favour of the capitalist.