The risk is not balanced after a certain startup cost.
This isnāt even quite true because even established companies can fail after taking additional (or even by not doing so), but youāre basically arguing āonce youāve gotten past the initial risk, there is no risk!ā Of course if you discount the risk people take, there is no risk.
And donāt get me wrong, I agree that there is a big imbalance now and laborers are generally getting screwed. But there is a reason I decided to take the path of becoming a skilled laborer instead of s business owner: I donāt want to take that risk.
I can and do easily jump from one job to another, with little worry at all.
once youāve gotten past the initial risk, there is no risk!ā
No, thatās a strawman. The risk is far reduced, not zero. To get to zero, you have to be Too Big To Fail and have the government bail you out.
The reduction in risk is obvious when you see how layoffs work. The CEO gets a big bonus for walking a whole lot of people out the door.
Libertarian types want to start with stories about farmers selling corn by the side of the road, and then expect you to believe the argument still holds when scaled up to Fortune 500s.
Youāre nit picking. Whether the risk goes to zero or just very low, that doesnāt change the point that there is generally significant risk to start up, which does not exist with labor. Labor is almost always a zero startup risk, a business is almost always the opposite.
You keep saying the word risk, and liberal capitalists do this all the time. Companies limit personal liability, so risk goes to zero there for a bunch of legal issues.
What most people are talking about is money, but not everyone has access to money. If you take two people, one born into a rich family, and another born into a homeless family, the rich kid gets a massive inheritance and ārisksā 30% of it starting a business. Letās say he hires the person born into a homeless family.
The liberal conception here is that the rich person, handed a massive amount of cash for absolutely nothing, deserves the surplus value of labor from the poor person because he āriskedā a small part of his inheritance that the poor person never had access to. Itās a wild assertion.
This might seem fabricated, but in the real world this is how it goes, people with capital accumulate more capital. Jeff Bezos ābuilt Amazonā with a $245,000 loan from his parents, and worked out of their garage. He then used that loan and later capital investments to hire people to actually build Amazon.
His parents couldāve just as easily gone the standard capitalist route, and instead of loaning the money instead valuated the company at $300,000 and assumed ~80% ownership for the company. The only reason this isnāt how it played out is because parents donāt like exploiting their kids, there was a biological component at play that disallowed the standard capitalist exploitation from taking place. So they offered him a deal that no capitalist in their āright mindā would offer, because it left Jeff with far too much and the capitalist with far less.
Sure, they can limit it, and you can shield yourself personally from losses taken by the company, but there is a still (generally speaking, again) a significant financial risk to starting a company at all. You canāt āshieldā yourself from start up costs.
If the argument is that ārich people are financially more secure so itās easier for them to take riskā I 100% agree. Thereās no question that rich people start off with a massive head start. I fully recognize āthe uterine lottery.ā
But the meme is about this risk being equal to the āriskā taken by people just being paid to do labor. Donāt get my position wrong, I believe labor deserves way more of a share right now. But there is no risk in it. Sure, you can lose your job which sucks, but (again generally speaking, there are exceptions e.g. people might move across the country to take a job) you didnāt invest any money into starting the job. So now you are out a job and need to find a new one. You are not in the negative.
And we need this. We need to incentivize risking capitol to make capitol, as that helps labor too. Itās just that this isnāt infinite and doesnāt mean people should be able to amass any and all wealth they can. There is a middle ground and that is where the discussion needs to be. Not in this silly āwell, labor is really involved in the risk of losses too!!ā
Itās not, and this is specifically why Iāve avoided multiple opportunities to risk shit to start a new company: I would rather be a skilled laborer as I can just jump from job to job when I want, than to risk what seems to me to be a lot of money on trying to start a company. Too much pressure. Itās easy for me to not give a shit.
You misunderstood my argument slightly, itās not that itās āeasierā for rich people, itās that itās literally impossible to risk money you donāt have, and as a result of that you have exploitation of labor; stealing the surplus value of labor from a class that has no option other than to participate in wage labor.
Also the idea that thereās no risk in labor but there is risk in being a capitalist is a liberal lens that fails to actually account for material reality. Whatās the absolute worst case for both the capitalist and laborer? That they lose all access to their money, and have to rent themselves out to a capitalist.
Put another way, the risk capitalists engage in is being demoted from the owner class to the working class. That risk doesnāt justify them taking the surplus value of labor to accumulate vast hoards of wealth.
Left liberals view this as a quantitative issue, but itās a qualitative one. Profit is definitionally surplus value of labor, so no matter how small you make the capitalistās profit, itās always theft.
We need to incentivize risking capital
Absolutely, without capital injection the economy couldnāt function. Capitalism by definition requires exploitation of labor, and theft of the surplus value of labor is what incentivizes capitalists to not hoard all their wealth.
Itās a fundamentally broken system. Private entities shouldnāt be the ones handling investment, nor handling direction of development. Those should be handled democratically by worker syndicates, the capital should be injected from the state/communities.
Essentially anytime private corporations are involved in an industry (housing, healthcare, capital injection, governance, etc.) it breaks the system. Liberals are slowly seeing these material realities unfold, and so the propaganda being fed to them is harder to buy. You donāt find many people in support of private healthcare or governance anymore, and some are starting to learn about the others too.
itās that itās literally impossible to risk money you donāt have, and as a result of that you have exploitation of labor;
Except this isnāt true. You can go and find investors, or get a loan if you are willing/capable of putting up something as collateral. Is it easier for rich people? Yes, we both agree it is.
But the risk does not get ādemotedā to the working class. The working class did not take a risk (again, all generally speaking, I hope I donāt have to keep repeating that). They applied for a job, someone offered them money for their labor, and they accepted. If the job disappears, theyāve lost nothing. They can go apply for another job and have another person pay them for their labor. At the end of the day, the worst they can be is back to zero.
While someone who puts millions of dollars into starting a business or expanding one can lose all of that money, and be net negative one million dollars. Might this not hurt them much because they have a lot? Sure. But they were the ones who took the risk.
That risk doesnāt justify them taking the surplus value of labor to accumulate vast hoards of wealth.
What is justified is kind of besides the point, because that is a subjective question. If one does not benefit from risking their capital, then you are simply going to see fewer, if anyone, actually risking their capitol. Iām trying to argue within what I believe to be the frame of reality: someone has to take the risk and I think the only way to incentivize that is to reward them disproportionately for doing so. Is the current balance off? Absolutely, we both agree on that.
Capitalism by definition requires exploitation of labor, and theft of the surplus value of labor is what incentivizes capitalists to not hoard all their wealth.
Youāre using too strong of words that is just going to turn off many rational people. Itās not theft if you and I agree that youāll do something and Iāll pay you for it. Itās not exploitation, in and of itself, if you and I both agree upon the terms of our relationship, but I benefit more from it financially.
Itās a fundamentally broken system.
In theory every pure system works, in practice none of them does. Certainly, capitalism is no exception. But from just looking around, it seems to me that as a starting point, capitalism is unquestionably the best. Iām not some anachro-capitalists, itās clear that we need to socialize things, and I think healthcare is one of the most obvious that falls into that system, and it is also obvious that labor should have a larger share of the pie. But this idea that everything breaks because of capitalism, seems to be the opposite of what is most often the reality.
But I feel like we are getting off the point. What the meme is about is how labor is āriskingā something because they can lose their job and end up back at zero. Itās simply not comparable to a capitalist with their potential of actually losing money.
You can go and find investors, or get a loan if you are willing/capable of putting up something as collateral.
This isnāt universally true. You have to be exact in this conversation, especially when you disagree with someone, or else all your points come across as not fully thought out, and I canāt really trust anything youāre saying, which makes this a lot harder.
Some people can go and find investors. Some people (not everyone) can try, but investors arenāt charities, theyāre looking for a return on their profits, not something that is good for humanity. If youāre trying to run a cooperative food bank, you wonāt get investors, even though this has a vast amount more humanitarian value than tobacco investment.
But the risk does not get ādemotedā to the working class.
Again, you misread what I said (realized what I said was almost ambiguous, the way you interpreted it is a valid way to parse the syntax of my statement if I slightly misused the word ādemotedā, but thereās another way to parse it and thatās the way I intended it). Itās not the risk getting demoted, itās the people. The risk for the bourgeois is becoming part of the proletariat. The risk itself isnāt changing class, the person is.
I think you read the word ādemotedā as ādelegatedā, which is not the same word (or assumed I misused the word demoted slightly).
What is justified is kind of besides the point, because that is a subjective question.
Hand waving is uninteresting. Even if youāre a moral subjectivist (you shouldnāt be, but thatās orthogonal to this), you still operate with some level of moral understanding (see next response for an example). Even though this is antithetical to the nature of moral subjectivism, and moral subjectivists will pretend like they donāt operate with a moral understanding, in the real world they do. The hand waving away any moral question is an incredibly powerful technique, modernized by Nietzsche and utilized by some incredibly terrible actors, like slave owners and nazis. Itās not a practice you want to get into the habit of, even if you donāt understand the philosophical ground for truth-apt morality.
The rest of your paragraph ignores what I already responded with. Your general point being ācapitalism doesnāt work without private capital investment which only works with the existence of profitā, and my counter is āexactly, thatās one of the many failings of capitalism, it requires this exploitative relationship between capital and laborā.
While someone who puts millions of dollars into starting a business or expanding one can lose all of that money, and be net negative one million dollars. Might this not hurt them much because they have a lot? Sure. But they were the ones who took the risk.
Thereās an implication here that hides the moral statement youāre making, but itās still being made. Iāll make it explicit: āMight this not hurt them much because they have a lot? Sure. But they were the ones who took the risk [therefore itās justified for them to take the surplus value of labor created by the workers]ā
Not saying the quiet part out loud, and then hand waving away any explicit claims I make about what is justified is just a rhetorical tactic, one that would be best left unused if youāre actually interested in truth-seeking.
Youāre using too strong of words that is just going to turn off many rational people
Iām using words by their definitions, maybe theyāre definitions youāre unaware of, but Iāll share some wikipedia links because itās a good aggregator of resources, and you can easily get a broadstrokes idea of what Iām saying. I can suggest essays and books if you prefer too, but I figured this is easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft! & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour
If saying the word ātheftā and āexploitationā gives you an icky feeling, then just replace it with āyunkteeā and āufurghleā or words of your choosing, I donāt really care. We just need words to describe the concepts elucidated by Proudhon and Marx, and those are the words they chose, not me.
But from just looking around, it seems to me that as a starting point, capitalism is unquestionably the best.
Christian theocracy/monarchies were āunquestionablyā the best prior to any democratic experiment. If you can point to actual socialist failed experiments that you dislike, go for it. However, Revolutionary Catolonia, the early days of the Bolshevik revolution before Leninās dismantling of worker syndicates, and a half a dozen other large real world examples of socialism exist where the oppressive capitalists were taken out of power. In most of these examples, either conservative Marxists or fascists dismantled socialism either by invasion/war or policy backed by state violence. They didnāt just suddenly collapse without external force and revert into an earlier stage of production (e.g capitalism).
This isnāt universally true. You have to be exact in this conversation, especially when you disagree with someone, or else all your points come across as not fully thought out, and I canāt really trust anything youāre saying, which makes this a lot harder.
This is hypocritical. You claimed that you canāt risk money you donāt have, and I gave multiple examples that contradict this. At no point did I say any investor is just going to give you money out of charity.
ealized what I said was almost ambiguous, the way you interpreted it is a valid way to parse the syntax of my statement if I slightly misused the word ādemotedā, but thereās another way to parse it and thatās the way I intended it
Itās all good. On re-read I feel like I probably should have interpreted it properly. However, I think the reason I misinterpreted it is because itās agreeing with my point. They run the risk of being ādemoted.ā They are the ones taking a risk. The labor is still going to be exactly where they started if they take a job and they get laid off.
Hand waving is uninteresting.
I didnāt handwave it away, I pointed out how you used a subjective term - where we could argue forever and never come to an agreement on what is justified - and how itās besides the point. The point had literally nothing to do with morals, but understanding subjectivity.
As to the rest of my point, you keep losing what we are talking about. At this point, I almost feel like youāre trying to avoid the point. I disagree with you that this is a āfailureā as I think it leverages what is typically human - in times of peace we tend to compete within a society - while many other systems ignore this part of human nature.
But, again, Iām coming from the angle that the meme doesnāt make sense because the labor doesnāt risk like the capitalist does. Youāre basically agreeing with me again.
āMight this not hurt them much because they have a lot? Sure. But they were the ones who took the risk [therefore itās justified for them to take the surplus value of labor created by the workers]ā
Please donāt put words in my mouth. Again, this all comes in reference to the meme. You are projecting your āmoralsā and attempts to label things as ājustifiedā onto me. If we want to talk about it, Iām a āproof is in the puddingā type of guy, and it has nothing to do with the subjective ājustifiedā but what works.
And youāre sitting here, typing to me on a computer that was the result of capitalism, presumably with a western education that was funded by a capitalist system, and probably benefiting a lot from that capitalist system. It works. Itās not without flaws. Itās not perfect. But this attempt to paint it as some failed system requires me to reject what I can see with my own two eyes. It requires me to reject what I can clearly see is in the pudding.
We just need words to describe the concepts elucidated by Proudhon and Marx, and those are the words they chose, not me.
And Iām just telling you you attract more flies with honey than vinegar.
If you can point to actual socialist failed experiments that you dislike, go for it.
Again, putting words in my mouth. You seemingly canāt help yourself. As I said earlier, Iām a proof is in the pudding type of guy. Youāve pointed out multiple cases where socialist experiments have failed, and none that have succeeded. Of course, this isnāt the fault of the system. No. Itās external forces.
The central theme of my point is that those āexternal forcesā are simply the result of human nature, which is why capitalism as come out on top time and time again. Itās leverages human nature, it doesnāt try to oppress it.
This isnāt even quite true because even established companies can fail after taking additional (or even by not doing so), but youāre basically arguing āonce youāve gotten past the initial risk, there is no risk!ā Of course if you discount the risk people take, there is no risk.
And donāt get me wrong, I agree that there is a big imbalance now and laborers are generally getting screwed. But there is a reason I decided to take the path of becoming a skilled laborer instead of s business owner: I donāt want to take that risk.
I can and do easily jump from one job to another, with little worry at all.
No, thatās a strawman. The risk is far reduced, not zero. To get to zero, you have to be Too Big To Fail and have the government bail you out.
The reduction in risk is obvious when you see how layoffs work. The CEO gets a big bonus for walking a whole lot of people out the door.
Libertarian types want to start with stories about farmers selling corn by the side of the road, and then expect you to believe the argument still holds when scaled up to Fortune 500s.
Youāre nit picking. Whether the risk goes to zero or just very low, that doesnāt change the point that there is generally significant risk to start up, which does not exist with labor. Labor is almost always a zero startup risk, a business is almost always the opposite.
And youāre completely missing the point that this argument doesnāt scale.
I donāt even know what that means. Zero risk is zero risk.
You keep saying the word risk, and liberal capitalists do this all the time. Companies limit personal liability, so risk goes to zero there for a bunch of legal issues.
What most people are talking about is money, but not everyone has access to money. If you take two people, one born into a rich family, and another born into a homeless family, the rich kid gets a massive inheritance and ārisksā 30% of it starting a business. Letās say he hires the person born into a homeless family.
The liberal conception here is that the rich person, handed a massive amount of cash for absolutely nothing, deserves the surplus value of labor from the poor person because he āriskedā a small part of his inheritance that the poor person never had access to. Itās a wild assertion.
This might seem fabricated, but in the real world this is how it goes, people with capital accumulate more capital. Jeff Bezos ābuilt Amazonā with a $245,000 loan from his parents, and worked out of their garage. He then used that loan and later capital investments to hire people to actually build Amazon.
His parents couldāve just as easily gone the standard capitalist route, and instead of loaning the money instead valuated the company at $300,000 and assumed ~80% ownership for the company. The only reason this isnāt how it played out is because parents donāt like exploiting their kids, there was a biological component at play that disallowed the standard capitalist exploitation from taking place. So they offered him a deal that no capitalist in their āright mindā would offer, because it left Jeff with far too much and the capitalist with far less.
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Sure, they can limit it, and you can shield yourself personally from losses taken by the company, but there is a still (generally speaking, again) a significant financial risk to starting a company at all. You canāt āshieldā yourself from start up costs.
If the argument is that ārich people are financially more secure so itās easier for them to take riskā I 100% agree. Thereās no question that rich people start off with a massive head start. I fully recognize āthe uterine lottery.ā
But the meme is about this risk being equal to the āriskā taken by people just being paid to do labor. Donāt get my position wrong, I believe labor deserves way more of a share right now. But there is no risk in it. Sure, you can lose your job which sucks, but (again generally speaking, there are exceptions e.g. people might move across the country to take a job) you didnāt invest any money into starting the job. So now you are out a job and need to find a new one. You are not in the negative.
And we need this. We need to incentivize risking capitol to make capitol, as that helps labor too. Itās just that this isnāt infinite and doesnāt mean people should be able to amass any and all wealth they can. There is a middle ground and that is where the discussion needs to be. Not in this silly āwell, labor is really involved in the risk of losses too!!ā
Itās not, and this is specifically why Iāve avoided multiple opportunities to risk shit to start a new company: I would rather be a skilled laborer as I can just jump from job to job when I want, than to risk what seems to me to be a lot of money on trying to start a company. Too much pressure. Itās easy for me to not give a shit.
You misunderstood my argument slightly, itās not that itās āeasierā for rich people, itās that itās literally impossible to risk money you donāt have, and as a result of that you have exploitation of labor; stealing the surplus value of labor from a class that has no option other than to participate in wage labor.
Also the idea that thereās no risk in labor but there is risk in being a capitalist is a liberal lens that fails to actually account for material reality. Whatās the absolute worst case for both the capitalist and laborer? That they lose all access to their money, and have to rent themselves out to a capitalist.
Put another way, the risk capitalists engage in is being demoted from the owner class to the working class. That risk doesnāt justify them taking the surplus value of labor to accumulate vast hoards of wealth.
Left liberals view this as a quantitative issue, but itās a qualitative one. Profit is definitionally surplus value of labor, so no matter how small you make the capitalistās profit, itās always theft.
Absolutely, without capital injection the economy couldnāt function. Capitalism by definition requires exploitation of labor, and theft of the surplus value of labor is what incentivizes capitalists to not hoard all their wealth.
Itās a fundamentally broken system. Private entities shouldnāt be the ones handling investment, nor handling direction of development. Those should be handled democratically by worker syndicates, the capital should be injected from the state/communities.
Essentially anytime private corporations are involved in an industry (housing, healthcare, capital injection, governance, etc.) it breaks the system. Liberals are slowly seeing these material realities unfold, and so the propaganda being fed to them is harder to buy. You donāt find many people in support of private healthcare or governance anymore, and some are starting to learn about the others too.
Except this isnāt true. You can go and find investors, or get a loan if you are willing/capable of putting up something as collateral. Is it easier for rich people? Yes, we both agree it is.
But the risk does not get ādemotedā to the working class. The working class did not take a risk (again, all generally speaking, I hope I donāt have to keep repeating that). They applied for a job, someone offered them money for their labor, and they accepted. If the job disappears, theyāve lost nothing. They can go apply for another job and have another person pay them for their labor. At the end of the day, the worst they can be is back to zero.
While someone who puts millions of dollars into starting a business or expanding one can lose all of that money, and be net negative one million dollars. Might this not hurt them much because they have a lot? Sure. But they were the ones who took the risk.
What is justified is kind of besides the point, because that is a subjective question. If one does not benefit from risking their capital, then you are simply going to see fewer, if anyone, actually risking their capitol. Iām trying to argue within what I believe to be the frame of reality: someone has to take the risk and I think the only way to incentivize that is to reward them disproportionately for doing so. Is the current balance off? Absolutely, we both agree on that.
Youāre using too strong of words that is just going to turn off many rational people. Itās not theft if you and I agree that youāll do something and Iāll pay you for it. Itās not exploitation, in and of itself, if you and I both agree upon the terms of our relationship, but I benefit more from it financially.
In theory every pure system works, in practice none of them does. Certainly, capitalism is no exception. But from just looking around, it seems to me that as a starting point, capitalism is unquestionably the best. Iām not some anachro-capitalists, itās clear that we need to socialize things, and I think healthcare is one of the most obvious that falls into that system, and it is also obvious that labor should have a larger share of the pie. But this idea that everything breaks because of capitalism, seems to be the opposite of what is most often the reality.
But I feel like we are getting off the point. What the meme is about is how labor is āriskingā something because they can lose their job and end up back at zero. Itās simply not comparable to a capitalist with their potential of actually losing money.
This isnāt universally true. You have to be exact in this conversation, especially when you disagree with someone, or else all your points come across as not fully thought out, and I canāt really trust anything youāre saying, which makes this a lot harder.
Some people can go and find investors. Some people (not everyone) can try, but investors arenāt charities, theyāre looking for a return on their profits, not something that is good for humanity. If youāre trying to run a cooperative food bank, you wonāt get investors, even though this has a vast amount more humanitarian value than tobacco investment.
Again, you misread what I said(realized what I said was almost ambiguous, the way you interpreted it is a valid way to parse the syntax of my statement if I slightly misused the word ādemotedā, but thereās another way to parse it and thatās the way I intended it). Itās not the risk getting demoted, itās the people. The risk for the bourgeois is becoming part of the proletariat. The risk itself isnāt changing class, the person is.I think you read the word ādemotedā as ādelegatedā, which is not the same word (or assumed I misused the word demoted slightly).
Hand waving is uninteresting. Even if youāre a moral subjectivist (you shouldnāt be, but thatās orthogonal to this), you still operate with some level of moral understanding (see next response for an example). Even though this is antithetical to the nature of moral subjectivism, and moral subjectivists will pretend like they donāt operate with a moral understanding, in the real world they do. The hand waving away any moral question is an incredibly powerful technique, modernized by Nietzsche and utilized by some incredibly terrible actors, like slave owners and nazis. Itās not a practice you want to get into the habit of, even if you donāt understand the philosophical ground for truth-apt morality.
The rest of your paragraph ignores what I already responded with. Your general point being ācapitalism doesnāt work without private capital investment which only works with the existence of profitā, and my counter is āexactly, thatās one of the many failings of capitalism, it requires this exploitative relationship between capital and laborā.
Thereās an implication here that hides the moral statement youāre making, but itās still being made. Iāll make it explicit: āMight this not hurt them much because they have a lot? Sure. But they were the ones who took the risk [therefore itās justified for them to take the surplus value of labor created by the workers]ā
Not saying the quiet part out loud, and then hand waving away any explicit claims I make about what is justified is just a rhetorical tactic, one that would be best left unused if youāre actually interested in truth-seeking.
Iām using words by their definitions, maybe theyāre definitions youāre unaware of, but Iāll share some wikipedia links because itās a good aggregator of resources, and you can easily get a broadstrokes idea of what Iām saying. I can suggest essays and books if you prefer too, but I figured this is easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft! & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour
If saying the word ātheftā and āexploitationā gives you an icky feeling, then just replace it with āyunkteeā and āufurghleā or words of your choosing, I donāt really care. We just need words to describe the concepts elucidated by Proudhon and Marx, and those are the words they chose, not me.
Christian theocracy/monarchies were āunquestionablyā the best prior to any democratic experiment. If you can point to actual socialist failed experiments that you dislike, go for it. However, Revolutionary Catolonia, the early days of the Bolshevik revolution before Leninās dismantling of worker syndicates, and a half a dozen other large real world examples of socialism exist where the oppressive capitalists were taken out of power. In most of these examples, either conservative Marxists or fascists dismantled socialism either by invasion/war or policy backed by state violence. They didnāt just suddenly collapse without external force and revert into an earlier stage of production (e.g capitalism).
This is hypocritical. You claimed that you canāt risk money you donāt have, and I gave multiple examples that contradict this. At no point did I say any investor is just going to give you money out of charity.
Itās all good. On re-read I feel like I probably should have interpreted it properly. However, I think the reason I misinterpreted it is because itās agreeing with my point. They run the risk of being ādemoted.ā They are the ones taking a risk. The labor is still going to be exactly where they started if they take a job and they get laid off.
I didnāt handwave it away, I pointed out how you used a subjective term - where we could argue forever and never come to an agreement on what is justified - and how itās besides the point. The point had literally nothing to do with morals, but understanding subjectivity.
As to the rest of my point, you keep losing what we are talking about. At this point, I almost feel like youāre trying to avoid the point. I disagree with you that this is a āfailureā as I think it leverages what is typically human - in times of peace we tend to compete within a society - while many other systems ignore this part of human nature.
But, again, Iām coming from the angle that the meme doesnāt make sense because the labor doesnāt risk like the capitalist does. Youāre basically agreeing with me again.
Please donāt put words in my mouth. Again, this all comes in reference to the meme. You are projecting your āmoralsā and attempts to label things as ājustifiedā onto me. If we want to talk about it, Iām a āproof is in the puddingā type of guy, and it has nothing to do with the subjective ājustifiedā but what works.
And youāre sitting here, typing to me on a computer that was the result of capitalism, presumably with a western education that was funded by a capitalist system, and probably benefiting a lot from that capitalist system. It works. Itās not without flaws. Itās not perfect. But this attempt to paint it as some failed system requires me to reject what I can see with my own two eyes. It requires me to reject what I can clearly see is in the pudding.
And Iām just telling you you attract more flies with honey than vinegar.
Again, putting words in my mouth. You seemingly canāt help yourself. As I said earlier, Iām a proof is in the pudding type of guy. Youāve pointed out multiple cases where socialist experiments have failed, and none that have succeeded. Of course, this isnāt the fault of the system. No. Itās external forces.
The central theme of my point is that those āexternal forcesā are simply the result of human nature, which is why capitalism as come out on top time and time again. Itās leverages human nature, it doesnāt try to oppress it.
But, again, we are way off the point.