Capitalism rewards capital. It’s literally in the name.
in before some child comes, downvotes people and bullshits about how Elon is actually very clever
I’ve noticed a trend amongst most Musk defenders now and general billionaire simps. They have the emotional maturity of a13 year old, they never really grew up in high school so are so stunted developmentally they’re a decade behind at the least.
So, they’re defending Musk because he’s one of them?
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Basing our world around a system that on average funnels the least empathetic, most callous, greedy and power hungry psychopaths and sociopaths to positions with the most influence surely cannot possibly backfire in a major way for the rest of us.
It will be studied in the far future the way we study monarchy or the Roman Empire.
Assuming we survive the extinction event we caused.
It’s in the name. Capitalism rewards capital.
German saying: “a good horse only jumps ass high as it must.”
There are no bonus points for clearing the hurdle with space to spare. You have to jump high enough, but no more.
a good horse only jumps ass high
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Capitalism rewards ability to provide perceived value measured in $. If people perceive your product/service to be of greater or equal value to them than the $ amount (the work they had to do to earn it) you’re asking for it , then they’ll pay for it.
It rewards rent seeking and private property
you can increase perceived value through manipulation. Shrinkflation, cutting your product with something cheaper and worse, paying your employees less, lobbying the government to cut your costs, or punish your rivals, etc. All of these things increase perceived value, through fooling (defrauding) your client base. If you were doing it with a luxury good, well that’s one thing. But in capitalism, we’re seeing this being done with necessities. Food, water, healthcare, education, transportation, internet, a place to live.
Yes, thoes are some of the options you have. Markets are to some extend composed of fraud, despite this they’re still the most efficient instrument to reward value generation.
I really dislike the implications here about which profession has which trait
Capitalism rewards the lucky and the sociopathic.
No system in existence and outside existence would reward artists even if it is specifically designed to reward artists. it’s a monkey’s paw bullshit trap.
To quote the article itself “Jenny Dagg, a Maynooth University sociologist who studied the scheme, said it was a win for all but noted that eligible artists could not live solely on the weekly payments, which were considered supplementary income.”
one way or another this kind of stuff always ends up being a scheme with heavy bias towards metropolies.
Capitalism rewards the best at gaining power. All systems are subject the vulnerability of people seeking power instead of wisdom. Even American Democracy.
Especially American Democracy.
“Even American democracy” you mean the system/country with all the greedy tech bros in it, who it actively protects?
I’m not interested is arguing about the distinction you fail to see.
Your lack of clarity is not my responsibility.
You said “even”, which for literate people means that what follows it has some particular advantage when it comes to not being whatever came before the “even”. The US is the epicenter of global capitalism; it’s the first to go, no the last.
But your understanding is.
A wonderful comeback deftly avoiding the bulk of my comment because that’s where your entire argument falls apart.
If I agree with you, will you be content and go away?
I don’t talk to people to “win” against them, so no, and fuck you for thinking that lying to me would make me happy.
No it rewards psychopathic and megalomaniacal tendencies to a disproportionate degree, with catastrophic runaway consequences
Capitalism rewards creating value
This is actually true. But value is objective. The value it creates is for those in power.
Lol. As if most rich people created anything. Legalized theft by wagedumping, monopolizing or runing the environment isn’t “creating value”.
Not seeing how creating value is rewarded. I know a lot of people who create valuable things, but for some reason, their boss is rewarded the most, without actually creating the value.
It rewards creating profit. Which is not the same thing as value. Just look at all the worthless piles of shit making profits.
I’m all of those and I’m super rich
an yet, you’re on lemmy with the rest of us…
fake and possibly gay
just kidding, homie
Hey, we all love you if you’re gay. Fake, however, that’s unforgivable.
Oh shit
Maybe it reward beauty? Nah, I’m not that rich…
