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Nope. This is capitalism working as intended. They keep making money regardless of how crappy their products are. The problem is that those who suffer are not t
by k_sze 5y ago
Nope. This is capitalism working as intended. They keep making money regardless of how crappy their products are. The problem is that those who suffer are not the ones making the purchase decision.
- bogwog 5y agoCapitalism allocates society's wealth towards the most productive members, in order to promote more productivity (in theory anyways). Microsoft has collected a massive amount of wealth, yet they're not being productive with it. In effect, they're wasting society's time since we aren't getting a return for that investment. That's unforgivable since people only live for a few decades, so Microsoft's misuse of wealth means that other businesses/individuals who would've used it to produce new/better technologies aren't able to. It's laziness, which is one of the worst traits a member of a capitalist society can have, and it's especially heinous when it's a trait possessed by an actor in such a powerful position. Thus, many of us will die without ever seeing a real hoverboard. So when you're on your deathbed and you don't have a hoverboard, know that it's Microsoft's fault (and the government regulators who should've stopped them). EDIT: Also applies to Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.
- zwirbl 5y agoThis explanation sounds like capitalism is a thinking being
- ako 5y agoThat is not what capitalism is, according to wiki: "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit." There's nothing in here about allocating wealth, or promoting productivity. It's all about private ownership. The owner decides how to make money, and what to do with the profits. If they decide to use it for non-productive goals, that's the freedom of the owner. Capitalism is to opposite of a society consciously allocating anything for a specific purpose, it leaves it up to every individual.
- bogwog 5y agoPrivate wealth is just an implementation detail of capitalism. An economic system’s purpose is to determine where the wealth goes, since the whole point of an economy is to share resources (e.g. so people don’t have to grow their own food) > Capitalism is to opposite of a society consciously allocating anything for a specific purpose, it leaves it up to every individual. Yeah, capitalism doesn’t use central planning. It’s a decentralized system in its purest form (real world requires regulators though), however it still is a system designed to answer the question: “who gets what?”
- ako 5y agoI'd say the purpose of capitalism is not to decide "who gets what", but rather to lay the foundation that the society/country as a whole get as much as possible.
- krapp 5y agoThe purpose of capitalism is to transfer wealth created by the labor class to the capitalist class. Every other effect is secondary and incidental.
- bogwog 5y agoSorry, but I don’t see what you’re trying to say here. Tonally, you seem to be trying to contradict my argument, yet aren’t actually contradicting anything. > I'd say the purpose of capitalism is not to decide "who gets what", but rather to lay the foundation that the society/country as a whole get as much as possible. The question “who gets what?” can be rephrased as “how do we give everyone as much as possible?”. Capitalism offers one potential answer. So yeah you’re not actually saying anything different from what I am. Are you even reading and/or understanding my comments? I know that the word “capitalism” tends to invoke knee-jerk/emptional reactions because of the politics behind it, so maybe that’s what’s going on here? Fwiw, I’m not saying that capitalism is good nor bad, I’m just defining it for the sake of my somewhat facetious hoverboard comment further up.
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- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoWhat is the best way, as a SaaS that addresses pain points predominantly for the end user, to market the product to the people with purchasing power?