That can happen, but it’s debatable how common it has been historically.

But it’s worth keeping in mind that the capitalists also control the media, school curriculums, academia (including economics and history), etc. It’s not hard for them to portray all socialist countries as far worse than they are, in order to discourage workers from rising up. And of course it is in the capitalists interest to do so.

As someone who has lived in this kind of a system in a country that doesn't exist anymore, I'd be (and am) a lot happier in a capitalist system, where workers can choose anytime to create their own budiness without the government owning it.

I'd be even happier if governments treated small businesses the same as they treat large (mostly by making tax avoidance impossible, and making the large pay the same taxes as the small ones to), but that's practically impossible with the corruption in our governments.

Workers need capital to create a business. They can’t gain capital while the majority of the surplus they create through labour is taken by capitalists.

You’re happier in a richer country, as are many of us Eastern Europeans that have been forced to emigrate. We could’ve been even happier in our own countries while having collective control over the means of production, but the (foreign) capitalists made sure that wasn’t possible through propaganda, coups, sanctions and invasions.

Many, many businesses need very little capital to start, less than a price of a car, that most of the people complaining about that, are currently driving.

I haven't moved, I still live in the same city, the country is the one that doesn't exist anymore.