Your entire counter-argument is based on a strawman. I never said piracy was stealing. I said piracy is, at best, morally grey.
If you live in a society in which people make a living either directly, or indirectly, through the creation and sale of goods and services and you willingly choose to avoid paying for access to these goods and services whilst still using them as if you had paid for access to them, you are operating in, at best, a moral grey area. This societal system relies on people paying for access to goods and services to either directly or indirectly support the lives of others. When people choose to circumvent payment, others suffer financially and that impacts their quality of life. Whether that’s a direct loss of a sale for an independent musician, or a staffer who loses their journalism job at a media company that operates on a subscription model everyone just bypasses, piracy does hurt people. Pretending it doesn’t, or that it’s all okay because of some “REEEEEEEEE CAPITALISM” whataboutism is juvenile.
I pirate a lot of stuff but I do so with the understanding that it is a selfish act that benefits me at the expense of others living within this society. I do not celebrate it, nor do I pretend I am the good guy fighting against the bad guys in some war of freedom. You can live in mental gymnastics land if you want, just don’t be surprised when other people point out how delusional you are.