I don't think Capitalism is the problem at all, the problem is a government that supports big corporations over small business
You want to go to the store and see a variety of TVs made by a variety of companies all competing with each other for sales by producing higher quality products for less money
The problem is that this is not what happens. Not because of Capitalism, but because of the government
I like to use the example of NYC Hot Dog carts
In theory I could pull out my grill, cook up a hot dog, and sell it to you for a buck. Why would you buy a $6 hot dog from the Nathan's Hot Dog cart when you could by mine for $1? Now Nathan's Hot Dogs have to compete with me, so they lower their prices or lose all their sales to me; capitalism
But, the government won't let me do that
Now on one hand, that's good. You want to know that the hot dog you buy is cooked well and cooked on a clean grill. If anybody could sell hot dogs anywhere at anytime the streets would be lines with hot dog carts and walking down the sidewalk would be near impossible. So you want the government to force business licenses on people, require inspections, and issue permits on who can sell where
However, you need the government to care more about you than they do Nathan's Hot Dogs. Let's pretend there are four spots available on the corners at Times Square. If the government gives all four spots to Nathan's Hot Dogs they now have a small monopoly on that block and can sell worse hot dogs at higher prices because people will still buy them due to a lack of options. It's not technically a Monopoly because there are other hot dog sellers in NYC, but locally, they control Times Square
So you need the government to not do that. You need them to make sure that all four corners go to different hot dog sellers
But, you need the government to do their homework. Giving the four corners to Nathan's, Ball Park, Oscar Myer, and Bores doesn't really do you, as a consumer, a lot of good. These are four huge corporations and while it's not technically legal we all understand that they could easily just agree to sell hot dogs for $7. Not that they have to sell them at this price, they just all kind of agreed to do so because they're all greedy corporations
Maybe they met up at a high-roller casino or charity event. Or maybe it's just a simple nod and a wink or a friendly email informing the other corporations that "unfortunately" Ball Park has to raise prices on hot dogs and the other CEO's understanding that this is a request asking if they want to do the same. "We at Oscar Myer are also in the unfortunate position of possibly having to raise prices to $7. We hope Ball Park understands"
How it happens, I don't know, that's not my point. My point is, the government handed the corners out to major corporations who continue to price gouge and offer worse and worse products. It looks like there is competition at Times Square, but there's not.
Or worse, the government doesn't do their homework (or they do and just don't care) and they hand the four corners of Times Square to Nathans, Sheinhardt, and Williams. Now it looks like there are two small companies competing with a corporation. But upon further inspection we find that Sheinhardg and Williams are owned by Nathans and Nathans Hot Dog corporation owns Times Square. You have the illusion of choice, but there is no actual choice. The name on the cart is meaningless as all of them belong to Nathan's
So you need the government to make sure shit like that doesn't happen. That Nathan's and Ball Park get two spots, but the other two go to small companies that will actually force real competition
The problem we have today is that the government does not want to help you, they want to help Nathan's and Pepsi and Google. So the laws and regulations in place aren't designed to hold them back and give you the upper hand, it's designed to keep you from being able to even begin to compete while handing them what is essentially a Monopoly on markets
So yeah, you can go to Best Buy and find rows of TVs all from different companies but every single one of them is essentially the same over priced piece of shit trash filled with spy ware and advertisements
And yeah, maybe you do have the skills to make a TV without that shit and sell it, but good luck actually doing so. You need licences, permits, inspections, etc... you have to strike deals with Best Buy to get your TV on the shelf, you have to purchase licences from Netflix or Disney to run their apps, you have to buy licences from Microsoft or Apple or Roku or whatever for their OS, etc...
By the time you do all of this, you have to cut corners to lower the cost of production and jack up the price
But if the government cared about you, they'd make it so that those companies can't do that shit to you. They'd work with you to encourage you to make a better TV
But you don't have enough money to grease the right palms in congress
So Capitalism isn't your problem, a government that doesn't care about small business is