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> The main benefit of capitalism is the dream of being the wealthy person, if you're a janitor it's almost impossible, but the dream is there Would you prefer
by geofft 7y ago
> The main benefit of capitalism is the dream of being the wealthy person, if you're a janitor it's almost impossible, but the dream is there
Would you prefer to be a poverty-line worker with a realistic but unlikely dream of being wealthy, or a worker who can support a 4-person family comfortably and retire at age 60 but has no chance of ever making any more money?
(This is not a rhetorical question, I think there are genuinely lots of possible answers there.)
- SQueeeeeL 7y agoHow realistic are we talking here?
- geofft 7y agoLet's say a 1% chance, and no amount of trying hard can change that percentage, it's a pure dice roll. (This is proxy for limited opportunity, tough facts like "you have a family that relies on you so you cannot spend 5 years trying and failing at startups," discrimination, economic downturns, the fact that the world cannot sustain more than a few Bill Gateses, and all sorts of other things that are beyond your control even in a capitalist society. On the other hand, I think 1% is significantly above the number of actual janitors who actually strike it rich in real capitalist societies.)