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That's actually part of Marx's analysis in more words, specifically in how social status is a main driver for working people to give in to the logic of capitali
by sudosysgen 3y ago
That's actually part of Marx's analysis in more words, specifically in how social status is a main driver for working people to give in to the logic of capitalism. Ultimately his argument is that this is fundamentally irrational and that even insofar as there is to be some kind of social status, it's more rational for working people to make that less dependent on capital as they are structurally prevented from achieving it.
But yeah as an argument in general "people are selfish and only care about struggling for themselves", if that's actually true it does undermine his whole argument.
- kelipso 3y agoIndividual vs collective incentives no? An individual worker might have a say 1% chance of achieving high status in the capitalist society while the same worker will have a 100% chance of achieving average status in the communist society (though sure plenty of other ways to achieve high status than money).
- sudosysgen 3y agoBasically, except that it's so unlikely for a worker to achieve truly high status (basically, true financial independence, fat FIRE in today's terms) that it might as well be close to impossible.