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These links do not support your claims.

For what it's worth, I agree with you and feel those examples are indeed emblematic of our current economic mode.

The "alternative" you envision is premised on shifting power back to the masses, but I think it's also important to mention guardrails to prevent excessive capital accumulation. There would still be an economy, but it would be driven by a more egalitarian aggregate demand and less likely to suffer the shocks of boom bust cycles associated with financial malarkey.

Pretty sure worker-owned companies still need investment and loans.

That there have been downturns is not an indicator that capitalism does not inherently work in the long term. There are always downturns, no matter the system.

Henry George would argue that it's the landlords, not the capitalists, who are causing the downturns :)

Every single man-made institution devolves into corruption. Capitalism isn't the outlier here.