Aren't you a book seller? Who is your publisher? Is that not capitalism?

That’s exactly the point. Book publishing is an industry where all stakeholders win: author, publisher, and reader. All invest energy, and all walk away with value. That is righteous profit. Even Adam Smith, the primary architect of free market capitalism, said it cannot exist outside an ethical context. But hyper capitalism, or crony capitalism, is not that. It is a power and money grab by owners and stockholders at the expense of workers. It is not righteous. It is oppressive and tyrannous. It is corrosive of people’s lives and of our democracy. It is the core principle of this economic era, and that era needs to end.