I don't know about "Capatalism" but "Capitalism" doesn't require stealing value. All capitalism requires is private ownership of the means of production and using it to generate profit. If you're a painter and buy paint, an easel and some canvas, and use that to sell portraits, you're doing capitalism.

Private ownership of the means of production is theft. What you described with the painter is personal - not private - ownership of the means of production. Personal ownership is when someone owns something and uses it for their own benefit. Private ownership is when someone owns something that they do not use themselves, instead hiring others to use it for them to generate a profit. The painter isn't doing capitalism when they paint and sell portraits, they're doing productive labor and participating in a market economy, which is not exclusive to capitalism. If the painter hired other painters to paint portraits using equipment and a studio that belongs to the original painter and kept the profits for themselves, that's capitalism.

Now, if the hired painters decided they didn't like this arrangement and claimed the equipment and studio for themselves collectively (seizing the means of production), that would be socialism. The original painter - the capitalist - would consider this theft, as those things were their private property. The hired painters - the socialists - would consider what the capitalist was doing theft and they are taking what is rightfully their collective personal property because they are the ones using it to produce value. To the capitalist, the value is produced by their capital (the means of production) and the labor is just another kind of capital which they have already paid for with wages. To the socialist, the value is produced by their labor and the means of production is being rented to them by the capitalist for their excess labor value, whose only claim to it is that they paid the upfront cost.

The owner of a company is like a landlord except instead of gatekeeping land/housing they are gatekeeping the means of production. Instead of paying rent, those who want access to the means of production sign away their excess labor value by agreeing to a set wage.

You steal value by creating monopolies. You steal it by artificial controlling resources, your "capital" so that no one else can benifit. You price gouge, manipulate, spread propaganda, and lie. Make dirty deals behind closed doors. Undercut your competition.

Pro capitalist always leave out all the awful tactics capatilism employs to do things that require you to buy from them. That's the theft. Gaming the system to put people in hard places. Baiting the general populace to bad behaviors all for the means of profit.

We shouldn't be required to play a game of literal monopoly to survive.

Free market capatilism is a joke. Capatilism only drives invitation of the business model and freedom for the owning class at the expense of the people.

What's the difference between feudalism and capatilism when corporations own ever piece of property on this spec of dust and you're required to rent? Still playing the rules of capital, but without any of the rewards. Think about it. I doubt you own your house. The bank probably owns it just like it owns a majority of peoples. Probably the same thing with your car. Your education. Hell even your life depending on how your health is. People who have to pay 1000s to insurance companies every year just to stay alive. For insulin treatment that was sold for a 1$ by its creator for the good of humanity. Monopolized. You aren't a capitalst if you own nothing.

Most people own nothing because that's the goal of capatilism.

The perfect company has no employees, sells no product, carries no debts, yet takes from everyone it can. It is the nature of capatilism to shuffle towards this structure.

The US in the 1989s had Europe and the rest of the world by the balls by being the global reserve currency. A system put in place after world war 2 where Europe basically sold itself to the United States. Everyone had to spend money and buy it in debt while the US had the keys to the printing press.

When you take out a loan why do they charge you interest? If you don't pay your loan back they will simply toss you in prison or reposes what meager property you have. Garnish your wages? What incitive does interest serve? It's just their to keep you paying, to keep you under your feudal lord.

Somethings just shouldn't have a price tag and should be owned by the people.

The term capitalism was coined by socialists to describe existing systems where wealth accumulated into the hands of the bourgeoisie. Only later did the supporters of the existing system attempt to "reclaim" capitalism and change the meaning to this nonsense. Capitalism is not "an attempt to improve a world dominated by monopolies," monopolies are the bread and butter of capitalism.

Painters owned their own paint supplies under feudalism. Were they "doing capitalism?" No, capitalism is not something you "do" on an individual level, it is a system that exists, and which has only existed for a few hundred years. Capitalism does not mean simply trading or owning tools.

Capitalism != free market.

Under a free market, a painter buys paint, an easel and some canvas at prices set by supply and demand, and then paints and sells portraits again at a price set by supply and demand.

Under capitalism, an artist wants to start a painting business, so he goes to a rich person or group of rich people and says "If you give me some money to start my painting business, I will give you a share in ownership of the business and its profits." with this so-called capital, the artist rents or buys a building and supplies and operates the business to effectively pay back that loan. The working class make a living and the rich get richer for having been rich.