capitalist corporations
inb4 true capitalism has never been tried, but we have this weird version of capitalism where it isn't a competition because any time a big corporation fails, it just pays itself to stay in business through taxation. Makes it so corporations can't actually fail because they made an inferior product or had bad business practices. The ideal of capitalism would be thus:
I open up a bakery next to your bakery
You sell tastier bread at a cheaper price
My bakery goes out of business because people choose your bread over mine
The end, I either adjust my strategy and try again or get out of the breadmaking business
Here's how it works in practice currently:
I open up a bakery next to your bakery
You sell tastier bread at a cheaper price
I start collecting taxes from the government to keep my business open. Gotta pay my 3 employees
I petition the state to make some of the ingredients in your bread illegal
I cry to the media that your bread is racist
I bribe the local health official to give your store a negative rating
I bribe local food reviewers to spread gossip that your bread tastes like butt
I start tampering with your oven
I pay urban youths to spray paint the front of your shop
Your bakery goes out of business despite having a better bread
People get bad bread
If capitalism were a fair game, where corporations were disqualified for breaking the rules it would be a good system. In the state it currently exists it's terrible because whoever is the more underhanded lawfare practitioner wins, to the detriment of the end consumer. People feel this effect and lean towards communism, false dichotomy. Capitalism with strict regulations works, unfettered capitalism leads to the merger of business and state. If the state worked as intended, as a watchdog organization that played referee between corporations to make sure they weren't being dishonest, we'd have a great system.
tldr; true capitalism has never been tried