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Capitalism is privatization of the profits and nationalization of the losses. Funded by taxpayers.

Corporations rake in massive gains, hoard the credit, and reward executives and shareholders. When risks blow up, bailouts, subsidies, and guarantees socialize. The population gets the debt, higher taxes, inflation, and austerity.

The elite gain easy credit and boom-time riches. The public gain mountains of debt when things crash.

Some random well known examples:

Big Banking crisis (2008): Wall Street banks gambled on risky mortgages and derivatives bubble for huge bonuses and record profits. When it all collapsed, taxpayers handed over $700B+ via TARP plus trillions in Fed support and guarantees. Many execs kept their bonuses, millions of families lost homes. The banks got rescued and resumed business as usual, the public carried the debt and economic fallout.

Big Airline bailouts (2020): Carriers got $50B+ in direct cash + loans during COVID. They laid off workers, paid execs big, and resumed dividends / stock buybacks soon after, while taxpayers footed the bill.

Big Tech & Big Pharma: Massive public R&D funding (your tax dollars) creates breakthroughs. Private firms patent them, charge premium prices, and offshore profits to dodge taxes. Losses or flops are not their problem.

Big Oil & Big Agro: Ongoing subsidies, tax breaks, and environmental cleanup costs shifted to the public. Profits stay private.

This isn't free-market capitalism, it's cronyism with a safety net only for the elite. Heads they win ( privatized profits), tails people lose (nationalized losses).

Who really pays are the average working class via taxes, inflation, and jobs loss.

Capitalists do like socialism when it is convenient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlcL-q5cDV4

Not that you're going to do the exact same thing. This is an example of what a motivated person can do.