What you are experiencing isn’t capitalism by definition. It is neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the worship of the ability of markets to always make the best decisions via personal self-interest to benefit everyone. Everyone except those who die of exposure or can’t afford their life-sustaining meds evidently.

Capitalism is the mom and pop store where the owners are members of the community and benefit from the community’s well being. They take a reasonable profit from their investment and time to allow them, if successful, to live a reasonably good lifestyle and contribute to the community. They are generally regulated by local, state, and federal governments to keep them from ripping off the people to any great extent.

Neoliberalism uses its success and profit to gain leverage over those governments so it isn’t bothered by things like anti-trust or oversight of finances. It is the WalMart model in cahoots with the Wall St model of finance that cobbles up competitors instead of offering benefits to consumers. It acts as its own distribution network, if not directly through affiliated businesses, and is always concerned with cutting costs as its primary motivation.

Any competing business it doesn’t buy or destroy is only allowed to exist to set a price image considerably higher than what it could sell its products for and still remain profitable. It has no concern for its workers or its customers, only its shareholders and the rare psychopathic personality that can manage such destruction with only the next quarter’s profits as his/her conscience, rewarding their mental disorder quite well.

This means that it will, as we have seen, use its influence in governments to keep wages and taxes low and always deal only with lowest bidders for its products, regardless of who that is or where they are located. It sees the decimation of labor and communities as the best way to assure shareholder value, which is its prime directive. This is not your grandfather’s capitalism. Its end game is the same as that of the evil your grandfather may have gone to war to defeat, fascism.