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Capitalism is a word, at best a euphemism for moral relativism, and clinging to it is succumbing to sunk cost fallacy.

It prescribes billions must kowtow to a minority who are average people granted political and education advantage.

Read the well curated history; capitalism came about when some rich educated guys in the 1800s realized religion was dying, and needed a new social control scheme and decided a few slogans about honest work being worth a buck would be easily understood by the lesser educated laborers.

Human ingenuity and engineering existed for hundreds of thousands of years before capitalism.

Wait until you find out that as a kid your phone number and address where in a yellow pages in every household around your community!

In 2011 I bought $300 in various lengths of 1/2” plumbing pipe, couplers, and flanges, and one sheet of smooth plywood.

From it I made a standing desk, and a seated desk, both on four legs.

In my current home the same desks are now supported by two legs in front, with the back edge screwed to 2x4 mounted on the wall.

Moving again this year and will take the pipe but replace the plywood as it has a lot of screw holes, ugly holes for cables I made in a rush. Maybe, we’ll see. Seems like I’d have issues securing it since the holes are in just the right places already, but I might have a go in order to keep my desk budget at $300 in 2011 dollars.

The pipe is so sturdy I expect to never need to replace one piece of that.