Actually capitalism is much more complicated, and most people completely have no idea about it.
So we are arguing from the stand point of "starting difficulty." Some people are born with "insane level" pre-selected for their game of life. Some people are born on "easy" setting, born to the wealthy family or an heir to power. I hate it when people try to justify their bad behavior based on their own perspective. So here are components of Capitalism:
The Chiefs
Many corporate leaders don't really work from the bottom. They just move around after messing about in the previous company. They never own business, or start it from ground up and making an actual contribution to the economy system instead of turning it into a very complex and inefficient machine by creating elaborate management structure that costs more than making the actual goods. Well, maybe because they care more about making good show than good products.
The Capitalists
Then there is this thing called investors, who can become your stakeholders. The way I see it, they should be the one providing the cash needed to feed all the workers, to buy them new tools, and to keep the factory running, and that's it! They will get their money back, as much as they contribute, and all they need to do is wish the team all the best. But in our capitalism, these people also have the loudest voice, and granted, the voice must be heard. Capitalism worship this idea, because it is the essence of it. While in reality, all they can say is "why Yahoo! no make social media? It's their mistake, no wonder their stock is falling!" "why Nokia no make iPhone! No wonder they lose competition!" "why Microsoft no make Apple? That's why they lose the consumer market!" Basically, they are the every reason why the world today is lack of innovation and stopped being creative. All they want is quick money and then out! Sucking the juices dry. "To hell with long-term investment!" "To hell with sustainable growth!"
The Preachers
Steve Jobs, being a well-known douchebag himself, was very combative towards these loud investors, that's why Apple was quite hip back then, and the whole Wall Street fat cats shut the hell up and started singing his tunes. The consumer market was already 6 years ahead of all those so-called expert financial analysts and stock brokers in worshiping whatever Apple put on their stores. All because, like my brother put it: "analysts got the job because the market is inefficient, meaning that the flow of information is not balanced." He added "so, in order to make the job more lucrative, analysts tend to create the misinformation, or deliberately make the situation more complicated than it actually is." And some just totally refuse to believe that they have been beaten by the market force itself.
The Workers
Then there is what they call "labours." Equally self-serving as the chiefs and as narrow-minded as how much tool set they get to learn. The workers has every reason to be paid attention to by the management. After all, they are where most of the value creation lies. And a good business strategy is the one that increase the values, all in a while, increasing stakeholder's value too, the very goal of capitalism. But sadly, it never worked that way. Some workers are just plain leech, no productivity, just latching into a host and dies away on its own. But if the lessons from the downfall of communism and Lee Harvey Oswald's experience might say, can the labours lead by the labours?
Well, Karl Marx imagined that labours are intellect, passionate, and hard working people. But many who jump into politics, organise strikes, and form unions (and be the union bosses), are the leeches. Like the Comintern, they lack credibility other than kissing each other's ass. They can't get out from their comfortable shell. Like Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian ex-president said: "Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party."
