importantly, even if an individual wiggles out of "being a capitalist" by "we have a right to define ourselves" or whatever
that is still Doing Capitalism. capitalism works through people Doing Capitalism, not Being Capitalists. capitalism, famously and definitionally, does not care who you are
bonus: not having shit and currently being in the grips of far right ideals are strongly correlated
the only way out is self acceptance, like in everything else
Ive noticed a kind of double think people do where they believe that ai in scifi is some kind of good true ai and what we have now is bad fake ai. The exact difference is impossible to pin down because obviously they dont actually explain how the computer in star trek works.
increasingly moving into a world of arcanists and walkaways, fringe-dwelling keepers of the forbidden and forgotten (crates of dvds, a hard copy dictionary, hard drives full of pdfs from the before times, a 3d printer that prints what you tell it to, linux isos)
there are two kinds of countries on earth
countries with horrific histories
countries that don't have shit (and also usually have horrific histories)
america should be more like europe, which is famously free of ethnonationalism, colonialism, and fascism, and definitely didn't invent all three of those things
If you are an author and you hold copyright you own property.
Property is capital.
Selling reproductions (digital or physical) of copyrighted works is seeking a return on capital.
Paying for the resources you use to do so (goods or services) doesn't change this.