But all that is the natural and inevitable consequence of capitalism. It's baked into the structure of the system.

Exactly. People want to go back to the thing that got us here

>rent-seeking,

Unfortunately "capitalism" is a pretty ill-defined term. I wouldn't include "rent-seeking" as a characteristic of "capitalism" but apparently you do.

This makes it very difficult to have coherent discussions. For what it is worth, I think "rent-seeking" is probably a characteristic of all economic systems and therefore isn't something peculiar to "capitalism" and so shouldn't be used as a criticism of "capitalism".

> I wouldn't include "rent-seeking" as a characteristic of "capitalism"

According to what theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking fits squarely into capitalism.

Rent-seeking isn't a phenomena that is unique to capitalism. It is something present in many different (all?) economic systems. So while it is completely fair to be critical of rent-seeking that isn't by itself a criticism of capitalism.

Indeed.