>I find it more productive to search for and financially support such businesses, rather than adopt the doomer pessimistic anticapitalism take...

But sadly, many order of magnitude more people would like to just make more money when invest. Which is why..

>Unfortunately a lot of these honest businesses are one generation away from potentially selling out everything the founders built,

> rather than adopt the doomer pessimistic anticapitalism take...

Capitalism does not imply public trading. Capitalism can work even when companies re-invest parts of their profits.

Oh no, that would be too slow. We want Speeeed...even if that means a quick descent into certain doom.