Was thinking about what it would be like living under a post-capitalist system and this thought came into my head. Are there any behaviors or triggers associated with previously having lived in a capitalist system that still manifest in people who have lived in a capitalist system even when they are no longer doing so?
According to the laws of dialectics, when a thing changes qualitatively, it first retains features of its previous state, but as it keeps changing quantitatively over time, it “grows out” of these vestigial features. Society is superstructure, shaped by the economic base; however, all change is gradual, and society won’t transform right away just because the economic base changed, confirming your guess. So it will take a while for society to realize and internalize “wait, I don’t need to follow these old capitalist laws anymore”.
This is kinda what I thought, like the older generations will keep some habits from the capitalistic era as it is hard to break old habits and the younger generation who only knew socialism would to an extent find such habits odd or old-fashioned.