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I say this with as much kindness as I can muster, but you are not a god damned Capitalist. Capitalist is a job title, not an idealogical position. A capitalist is someone who "deploys" capital in order to acquire ownership of productive assets. A productive asset produces money, which in turn, allows the capitalist to continue to do the same thing, at ever increasing rates. I think it's important to make this distinction in political conversations. When we talk about "being a capitalist", we're referring to the Myth of Capitalism. The story we've largely come to agree, defines capitalism. Stuff like markets, and their own myths (supply and demand), property rights, the existence of the profit motive and capitalists. Even things like wage labour and the ideals of a meritocracy all fall under this banner of what capitalism is. The unquestioned cultural norms of the imperial core. But being in favour of the current status quo does not make you a capitalist. It makes you a liberal. I know, I know, I started playing Ontological sandcastles with you, and now I'm making up a straw man. "Liberals are a kind of capitalist, but they're still capitalists" I hear you argue. If you want to say a capitalist is anyone who believes the myths of capitalism, sure, you got me. They're capitalists. I'm a descriptivist too, see 👓
I'm not here to argue semantics with you, I'm here to convince Liberals their moral beliefs are being clouded by subconscious narratives they wouldn't agree with when made explicit. Perhaps you're one of these famed liberals. Did I break your sense of reality a little? Do you see a little more how the myths of our time shape our economic reality, which in turn are the tectonic plates of our social lives?
In conversations where I've brought this up, I see the conversation change. We talk explicitly about what Myth we believe in, and discuss it's current pitfalls, and possible solutions. Whether you're for limited regulation and "free-er" markets is rather quite different to if you want less social welfare. I want to know whether to talk to you about how monopolies form and what to do about them, or to walk away because I don't know how to teach you empathy.
Heck, maybe you're truly a card-carrying capitalist. Private equity, or maybe you're a trader that has earned enough money to comfortably live of now. I still think it's an important conversation for our uncertain future. How ought we to shape the profit motive when catastrophe strikes? What should it mean for compound interest that inequality has gotten so extreme?