Exactly. Presenting arguments in good faith with people who are willing to accept objective views and valid factual information can be thrilling and present opportunity to learn about your own belief systems.

In practice, though, it is such a rare occurrence that you are mostly just better off banging your head against a wall.

Oh now I see, you are one of those that think capitalism is a system of government. May want to learn the difference.

Oh I don’t know. Maybe refer to the fact that 98% of all human history has occured without capitalism, where as capitalism has managed to nearly make the world unlivable in just over a couple hundred years while also convincing people that is is the only solution to the problems it has caused.

If you believe that “taxing the rich and a truly democratic society” can exist within a capitalist societal structure, then my friend, you are sadly mistaken

You mean we need to solve the problems created by “capitalist societal structures” like “the rise of authoritarianism across the world, an ever smaller group of people’s wealth dwarfing the rest of the planet’s combined wealth, climate change, etc.”