[SaxxonWoods]

Many of today’s “conservatives” don’t understand and dislike Capitalism.

Win half a billion off a Powerball ticket, great.
Become a billionaire playing a kid’s game, fine.

Become a billionaire by risking your nest egg and financial future to help companies create jobs and products, which helps others succeed, leading to your own success, you are an elite and to be looked down upon, even as you benefit from what they have done.

And the word “elite” is all it takes to set them off with hate. Capitalism is dead if “conservatives” hate it. I see it every day, the Commies are winning the mind game of zero-sum thinking.

[dfwgator]

Problem is we have too many “idle rich”, who have no concept, nor appreciation as to how that wealth was built.

[Angelino97]

Count me among those conservatives who've come to hate capitalism. I liked Ayn Rand when I was young. Today I hate the capitalism, Wall Street, and the elite.

Give me populism and nationalism. Screw communism and capitalism.

Ever hear the old saying?

Under Communism, Man exploits Man. Under Capitalism, it's the reverse.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Well, you're right that I don't give a damn about "billionaires" when they all vote Democrat.

I care more about individuals who want to work for themselves, but have to spend half their time satisfying an onerous regulatory paperwork burden that does nothing but guarantee jobs for worthless government bureaucrat leeches.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Or maybe you're just suffering from nostalgia.

Old-timey "billionaires" gave us cheap energy and transportation and mobility, and a higher standard of living. Today's billionaires give us government surveillance and mind-control.

Maybe things change?