We can also be the solution.

There are more options than just capitalism (and especially the weird kind of klepto-capitalism that we're falling into globally now).

And it's not like it was all utopian paradise before capitalism was invented.

Nah, other animals have performed transactions since before humans existed. The fact that we do it in marble halls and fancy suits doesn't make us the originators.

Right but then it's a matter of reference. Anything can be a virus. The specific issue with unlimited capitalism is that it is a virus to ourselves as well as pretty much everything else on Earth except a handful of people that benefit from it. As if they were immune.

Such a western view: a capitalist society. We have the choice to participate in that or in a different system. Most just don’t want to give up the “I have” for “what can be”.

Capitalism no doubt sucks, but our other inventions suck even more unfortunately.

hasn’t the earth already gone through several mass extinctions even before capitalism was invented?

Capitalism is genetically baked in, to a certain degree. But so is egalitarianism, war, schadenfreude, empathy, looking at people but if they look back at you then you turn away because you’re really not trying to give them vibes but they’re still looking at you for an uncomfortably long time so you have to turn back to them to understand why they’re doing this but your perception was wrong and they had long since looked away.