It's just that capitalism rewards the worst actions taken by the worst people.

Um, unregulated garbage late stage capitalism sure. Maybe that's all capitalism, because it does seem like it degenerates to that in every case. 🤷

The only way to build a better one is by fighting for it.

That's exactly what democratic socialism is. It's the fight for a better world.

It's funny to me that folks can easily see the flaws in "the other side" but never their own side. Like, pretty obviously communism sucks in reality (the theory is well meaning) because you "have" to go through single-party socialism first, and once people get power they're unlikely to ever give it up, but just as obviously capitalism sucks in reality because if a business has too much money and no government is enforcing antitrust it can buy up all of the competition.

That's why you're better off with a compromise. That compromise, IMO, is democratic socialism.

You're right, but that's also the point of why people say capitalism is bad. It rewards the worst people. The goals are not aligned with doing good. It's aligned with maximizing exploitation, whether that's resources or people (aka human resources, if you didn't know what they think of you).

It isn't capitalism that causes issues. It's that the system rewards those who cause the issues. It doesn't do anything on its own.

They actually may. They keep records tied to membership number and already have a system set up for yearly rebates.

If anyplace would they might. They got a notable boost in traffic just by explicitly saying they wouldn't drop their DEI policy when that was his favorite tantrum.

Investors are already gambling with this money. Companies sold their rights to refunds to other companies for fraction of the value. Banks bought it and are now waiting for Trump to pay them. One of investors is the son of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.

https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/

You expect Costco to sue on behalf of your company for tariffs paid by your company?

Why should they get support? Isn't that literally their job, as vendors? That's what they do, vend. They can not sell at Costco if they don't want to. They can get a other job if they aren't up for it.

What?

I'm not expounding too much on how, but I know you're correct. Costco is mildly better than other retailers to their warehouse staff, and even that is just done for the image/reputation which is where the real value in Costco exists.