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Yeah what makes capitalism successful is that you will starve unless you work hard. Once you have a certain level of money it becomes much less of a motivator
by mountainriver 4y ago
Yeah what makes capitalism successful is that you will starve unless you work hard.
Once you have a certain level of money it becomes much less of a motivator for most people.
- svnt 4y agoUnless you just enjoy the process of acquisition. I’ve seen people shake and twitch with existential rage during negotiations that would result in their net worth possible going from ten figures to a marginally higher ten figures, and the same for the next order of magnitude. They were made either way, and they acted as though their life was at risk. It is nothing but a greed impulse that most of us were taught to overcome during early childhood, but we give it license and credibility as some ultimate good.
- Ferrotin 4y agoThere is a guy on the other side of that transaction who would capture that surplus value.
- svnt 4y agoThis assumption promotes the behavior and at the same time assumes everyone in the room is playing for the same ultimate incentive. The problem is a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. It seems that only if you can avoid (or want) a tragedy of the commons should you solve that by introducing more self-reinforcing feedback loops.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoStarving people are not a feature of a successful system. Capitalism does not reward hard work. Smart work, maybe, but not hard work.
- jay_kyburz 4y agoCapitalism is designed to get people to work their fair share. It's Democracy that supposed to prevent starving people. (And crime, and that people are educated, and healthy)
- sophacles 4y agoCapitalism is designed so that a relatively few leeches can skim value off the work of others.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoCapitalism is designed to allow the ownership class to exploit the labor of the masses.
- ChadNauseam 4y agoCapitalism is designed to get people who want each other's stuff to trade with each other
- melenaboija 4y agoCapitalism is designed that you better have luck the day you are born
- yazaddaruvala 4y agoCapitalism is designed to increase the ceiling of the human experience. It is also designed to let people fall to the floor of the human experience. Specifically, if there is a human that cannot participate in capitalism (strong enough, focused enough, educated enough, lucky enough, conforming enough), then capitalism pushes those people to the floor of the human existence.
- 4y ago