Capitalism's biggest achievement must be that its mechanisms for "accumulation of wealth" have become barely recognizable as "actually taking away from others".
Capitalism is not just redistributing labor, it is a control layer that incentivizes innovation to replace labor. For instance, in modern capitalist countries, only 2% of labor is used to grow food, and food is much more plentiful than in any other time in history.
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I meant redistribution of access to labor working for your interest or towards your goals, as in "making someone else work for you", and (usually) as in "spending money for products and services".
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Btw, I am not arguing that capitalism is sustainable or that is the best possible social order. I suspect that there needs to be a stronger dominance of public administration over capital, but politicians are so poorly incentivized to administrate well that we limit their power.
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