It's not clear who was the first to have said it, but there's a quote that is 100 percent on the mark: It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
We've been brainwashed into believing in the supremacy of private wealth--that we somehow have no choice but to accept the self-asserted superiority of the small number of people born in access to capital. We don't. We could end it in an afternoon if we got our shit together.
I genuinely like the sentiment. But in my lived experience and study of history, the people who want to knock off the alphas mostly just want to be the alphas themselves. All communist revolutions I'm aware of embody this principle extremely well.
The closest people have gotten to a large-scale egalitarian society is Scandinavian social democracy.
We've been brainwashed into believing in the supremacy of private wealth--that we somehow have no choice but to accept the self-asserted superiority of the small number of people born in access to capital. We don't. We could end it in an afternoon if we got our shit together.