If anyone claims this is a conspiracy theory, just send him the link to https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/ageing/replacement-migration.asp
Exactly. There is no shortage of employee-owned companies, though they are usually less efficient than the usual companies.
They are right, in fact. In capitalism, whoever owns the means of production, gets the surplus value created by it. In socialism, workers own the means of production, so you could say that socialism is a kind of capitalism where only workers are allowed to own capital. But in actual practice of socialism, it is the state that owns the means of production, so state capitalism. This always happens because workers don't know how to manage the capital and don't care about the capital that they don't own.
Hegel was writing nonsense that gave rise to Marx, and ultimately CRT.