For me, two points:
(dating myself here) Minimum wage used to be $5.75 when I was in high school. I worked my ass off for an entire summer. I fuckin hated it, but we all gotta hustle. Around my last shift, I came out to the parking lot, and someone had done my car dirty with a hit'n'run. No note, no CCTV, nothing. The damage was in the neighborhood of $2k, which is exactly everything I had saved up that summer.
I worked my ass off 300 hours to break even. It might as well just have been some community service work release program. Fuck capitalism.
The other is when I was older, post-grad. I had a shitty job where I had to pony up for own health insurance plan with high deductibles. I started having random tingling in my joints, so I did the responsible thing and had it checked out. I got sent to several specialists who ran a battery of tests. I'm already in the hole, $3k out of pocket, and all I got was, "We're not sure what's wrong."
The tingling lingered, and I started looking up information for myself on alternative, holistic sites. Someone had listed similar symptoms and said it was just a vitamin deficiency. That couldn't be it, right? Well I ordered some supplements, and within a month, the tingling was gone.
$3k down the hole. Fuck capitalism.
It's a bit embarrassing to admit it so late I think the real pushing point was about 6 months ago, a few days after the death of George Floyd. I had already been fast tracking towards real leftism at that point, watching Bernie sanders get shafted in real time was especially frustrating and made me lose an incredible deal of hope in electoral reform, but seeing front a firsthand perspective how police deal with political dissidents really opened my eyes
I was reasonably just a tad angry about the death of George Floyd and so I went downtown and just joined in with a crowd of protesters a few days after his death. For the most part it was a crowd of libs whose only real plan was "be angry and shout" but we marched up and down the streets shouting "Defund [our city] PD!" and "I don't like cops very much!", you know the drill. It was totally "Peaceful" to a liberal perspective. Maybe like 2 people with spray paint vandalizing shit. For the most part, the march was pretty aimless. Some guy would shout "Let's go to [Local landmark]!" and we'd all march there until we got there, didn't know what to do, and waited for the next guy to shout a different landmark to go to. Then we pull up on city hall, and before anybody came up with any other ideas, some guy shouts something to the effect of "HEY GUYS!" and hurls a big fucking rock through a window. Now, given that most people in the crowd were big liberal, the majority of the crowd basically responded with "Hey what the fuck, man?" and "We're trying to be peaceful!". I was still trying to comprehend what the fuck was going on when I look over and maybe 8 riot cops apparate out of nowhere, chucked several flashbangs fired a few pepper balls into the crowd. When I saw the flashbangs go out, I instinctively dove away onto the sidewalk, failed to pay attention to what was around me, tackled a streetlight with my shoulder and rolled onto the sidewalk. A bike goes whizzing past me only inches to my left while I'm lying there. I look up and it's another bike cop. My shoulder was pretty sore for a week but I was fine.
After getting my bearings and moving back to a safer and less pepper spray filled area, I hear something about 2 people being arrested in the chaos.
And after thinking about all of that, of how the police attacked a whole crowd of hundreds of people and arrested at least 2 because one of them broke a window, of how I very nearly could have gotten hurt myself from just standing in the vague vicinity of a criminal really gave me the final push in realizing "yo capitalism sucks fuck this shit"
Was probably a cop who broke the window for it to be that convenient timing-wise.
Maybe. I don't want to dox myself any further but I don't think it was a cop. The look on his face gave me the impression that we wanted to gauge the crowd to see if they were ready to start breaking shit. Though it really doesn't matter, the cops got their pretext to attack political dissidents. Could very easily have been some guy working for the cops but honestly I feel like all the cops had to do was wait for one guy to do something like that before attacking