I think it's like the old trope of asking a fish how the water is and they reply "what's water?"

I think you know why. Is this a real question or are you just fishing?

because they arent the ones being stripped of their livelihoods to fatten the moneypigs

Stockholm syndrome

Brainwashed since birth. GI Joe had the American Express slogan in an episode ("never leave home without it."). Alvin and the Chipmunks had a story about the Berlin Wall propagandizing communism. All the bad guys in Cobra have accents.

This shit is vile and it was on my morning cartoons.

Lack of successful alternatives? It's easy to find flaws with capitalism but every other system has its share of problems too.

Living in denial is easy to continue doing and widely encouraged, while being very hard to overcome.

what if it was me

Often because they're profiting from it themselves.

They don't have to balls to think for themselves.