That's one way capitalism can work. Capitalism, like anything created by humans, is complex. The way you described how capitalism works seems to put all the blame on the people with the least power or knowledge in the whole process.

Corporations have the money to advertise their products, bribe politicians, lobby governments, threaten or deal with whistleblowers, suppress information and research or destroy foreign environments for resources to continually gain more power. That's not a complete list either. The things these entities would do to exploit everything to increase their quaterly profits is horrifying.

Where I live, our regional government official works hand in hand with businesses and corporations to completely gut health care and education while giving away all our green land to build more expensive homes.

If individuals truly had control over capitalism as you suggest, then they will soon be too tired from being over worked, sick from lack of healthcare, possibly homeless, and under educated to know any better to make better decisions, or fight back.

Corporations have the wealth to change things but it seems ruthless manipulation and exploitation are their favourite tools. I don't see how these tools can continue endlessly on this finite planet. You can't exploit a lifeless planet with dead slaves but they just can't see past their quarterly profits.

You are not considering that not everybody can know how everything is produced.

I am more than 30 years into this life and don't know exactly how many things that I buy are produced, how the resources are gained, how far parts were shipped, etc.

On top of that companies go far lengths to hide things that would have a bad public feedback. They even do research only to sow doubt in science. And they print fake green labels and proudly advertise with it.

That's why ideally the government steps in to bring transparency and safety for their citizen.

But guess what? Companies are paying nice money and other benefits for politicians to be able to lead the customers by their noses.

At first individuals should start prefer local production track

Let me just buy a locally sourced phone from the local farmers market! Hmm while I'm at it I'll switch my power supplier to one that uses renewable energy instead of a coal fired power plant! And for my business trip I think I'll fly on magic carpet!

Wow! Pollution and global climate change really is the fault of selfish individuals and not unregulated capitalist as I initially thought!

I get where you are coming from, and it’s true, a lot of people just don’t seem to care…

Capitalism also works to keep prices as high as possible and wages as low as possible leaving most of the population not in a position to make ethical desicions over affordability decisions.