Think about it. Capitalism is awesome if you’re the one who started it. 30-50 years later, its fuck everyone else.
All the great tech innovations happened early on and peaked many years ago. Anything innovative now doesn’t pay, so its onto the grift and theft of data, wages, etc.
Ah yes that’s why North Korea was so much worse off than South Korea in the late 40s and then became so much better. Oh wait no, the capitalist south started out worse and is now better than the feudal north.