Capitalism (monetary belief system) gets away with a lot because it gets conflated with markets. Tell people you don't want "capitalism" and they think you want to end the concept of a marketplace. Actual capitalism (making decisions in support of money, taking actions based on numbers in a spreadsheet instead of reasoned thought, buying politicians to support the flow of capital toward ownership class, etc) is actually dependent on social structures and healthy, living people but in the short term, it seems more profitable to exploit those things and avoid paying for them.

Unfortunately, the opposite of capitalism is not blind socialism, either: it's sales taxes. Every capitalist depends on someone buying their crap without question. Putting the actual cost of capitalism at the decision point (checkouts) is hated by everyone that has become comfortable with "always low prices", distant wars paid for by distant debts and money stealthily taken before they see it (low minimum wages, pollution, advertising (theft of time and attention), and individualized transportation). Everyone who drives a personal vehicle to work is subsidizing the profits of their employer, the corrupt road construction lobby, and the auto dealership cabal. It's not like we are given a choice in most places in the US: but we really need to look at it from "who benefits?" so that we can try to make sensible changes (painting some bike lanes on the same roads used by cement trucks building suburbs is not going to put people where they are useful to themselves and their places).