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The thing about capitalism is that the capitalists tend to win. Gains have accrued to capitalists mostly. Lack of leverage on the part of labour means they are
by at5 11y ago
The thing about capitalism is that the capitalists tend to win. Gains have accrued to capitalists mostly. Lack of leverage on the part of labour means they are expected to be more productive not work less.
- vidarh 11y ago> The thing about capitalism is that the capitalists tend to win. That's because the capitalists are the ones that already "won". A capitalist - or aspiring capitalist - that fails, is/becomes a worker. Anything that squeezes the economy of capitalists as a group forces some of them into the working class.
- tygaa 11y agoThis comment adds nothing to what was said above. Capitalists started out advantaged at the advent of modern commerce and have accrued gains.
- vidarh 11y agoThat's wild oversimplification. A lot of people have become capitalists without a privileged start, and a lot of people have lost all their privilege. The point is that what was said above was a meaningless truism to say that "the capitalists tends to win" because (still) being a capitalist is the prize.
- tygaa 11y agoNot even worth responding to