I’ve spent years thinking about this. My conclusion is that the only people who want to destroy capitalism are the ones getting fucked by it. If you’re part of the roughly 1-10% of humanity that benefits from capitalism, it’s unlikely that you’re going to question it. You’ll always be able to excuse it.

I converted because I did everything right. I’m a white able-bodied cis male. I come from a wealthy family. I have a college degree. I still couldn’t get ahead. I couldn’t get a decent white collar job. I also saw people who, in my opinion, were of lesser ability, basically beating me in the rat race. I ran in elections as a progressive democrat, put everything I had into them, and still lost. And then when I won, I found myself sitting at the fabled bargaining table, surrounded by nazis. It infuriated me so much that I started asking questions that I had never asked before. “Are the democrats really on my side?” Radicalization from r/chapotraphouse and hexbear helped immensely. Once you seriously read Marxist texts, there’s no going back.