I think this is that one survey from 2016. If I remember right it only asked for reactions to certain words, positive or negative. Whenever I see similar polls it makes me consider the average American doesn't see the terms capitalism and socialism like we do. The average person sees these as character traits, not movements or distinct economic structures. Capitalist simply means greedy businessman, nothing structural. Socialism is high taxes and government doing stuff.

There's not a lot of coherent public discourse about this.

and about 92% of them are NATO leftists who hate every AES country and think people like Vaush sound intelligent.

Hmmm, after spending their formative years with the boomer generation constantly rubbing their lucky breaks in our faces. Smug corpos laughing at us for being arbitrarily told we're unemployable....it truly is a mystery where the resentment comes from...

The lack of trust in the capitalist system is Harvard Business School’s biggest challenge, according to Dean Nitin Nohria[5]. The Business School has always been closely associated with broader trends in the business world, and it must work toward reassuring society that businesses and the capitalist system are productive. The school has taken several actions in an effort to answer that question, including introducing more courses focused on ideas about economic structure. The school is trying to find ways to engage students in conversations about capitalism and its flaws. The school has a second-year course called ‘Reimagining Capitalism’ that has become one of its most successful second-year electives. The school is also trying to bring that material back into the first year of its MBA curriculum.

Lol of course.

Oh, well, since we live in a democracy that should be the end of the matter, then, shouldn't it? Shouldn't it?

I'm amazed that 49% support it.

In 1960 US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average house was $11,000.00* A high school grad could move out and be self supporting instantly.

*Unless you're ready to prove that inflation is the reason houses today are larger and have things like air conditioning, don't tell me that modern houses are 'better.'

This is cool but there's still a big leap to be taken between disliking capitalism and actually advocating for communism. A year or two ago a friend of mine admitted that capitalism is fucked, but he couldn't bring himself to support communism because he thinks that communism basically means universal concentration camps. "You get a concentration camp! And you get a concentration camp!" It's common enough for people to admit that things are fucked up, but their solution usually revolves around electing good capitalist puppets to replace the bad capitalist puppets, and/or to do some kind of genocide against minorities who have nothing to do with societal problems. Plenty of these respondents probably believe that something like "crony capitalism" is at fault and that we need to go back to the good old days when a man could get ahead if he worked hard (i.e., during the enclosures).

I'm in a town where basic shelter is unaffordable and constantly features puff pieces about the plights of our landlords, and the local subreddit has the majority of locals calling landlords parasites. All that's missing is a vanguard that can organize and guide this sentiment.

I just wanna see a poll going over the percentage of outright communists someday (although tbh it would probably also have a selection for fascist that would have twice the percentage )

The cynic in me reads this as ~48% of youths want more libraries, but would still froth as hard as any boomer if you suggest union busting is wrong, or something cool like we should nationalize Amazon

no more half measures walter

I'm gonna BLOOOOOOOM

This is a biased study.

A lot more don't support it.

Let me guess, a good 80% of them want nazism as the alternative. Don't they?