What makes it work is the inherent inequality in the trade. You value your pen less than my dollar. I value my dollar less than your pen. Only then can the trade take place. Muh exploitation! :)
Capitalism is free trade to mutual advantage – what is immoral about that? If you have a dollar, and I have a pen, and we trade voluntarily, we are both better off by definition.https://twitter.com/Yozhik26/status/1094359577594916864 …
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What if I have a pen and I have an apple?
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The symmetry involved in the exchange of goods and services for money implies that the way companies make money can only be described as "doing things humans want." There is no other path to profit. Capitalism is the real humanism.
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The "exploitive nature" is found in those like Marx.
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BUT PEOPLE VOLUNTARILY MAKE EXCHANGES THAT DISADVANTAGE THEM MARX SAID SO HIMSELF!!!!
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Using money to make money is one of the most common way to create wealth. Man has great idea, but no capital, man seeks investors, investors use capital to realize mans great idea, new jobs and products are created. Investors used there money to create new wealth.
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You exchanged money, which can be used by those who accepted said money to buy the goods and services they want. You seem to not understand that money has value, just like goods and services. It literally exists to make transactions easier. Bartering isn’t efficient.
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That's false. 'Zero Sum Game' is 'mutual advantage'. Capitalism and Zero Sum Game are NOT synonymous.
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Capitalism is neither immoral nor moral. It is amoral, but also the most efficient system we have by a long shot. We use a mower to cut a lawn instead of scissors because it is efficient and therefore good. Pondering the morality of lawn mowers is equally pointless.
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I agree with you. Capitalism, in and of its self is neither moral nor immoral. It’s the people involved that can corrupt any economic, political or religious theory.
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I've noticed they confuse the concepts of plutocracy with capitalism, such as: a value-displacing currency system exploiting policies of perpetual inflation and perpetual debt vs. the free exchange of goods and services.
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The free market, by construction, forces the individual to harness his self-interest in the service of others.
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No..the free market, by construction, allows the individual to harness his self interest with others self interests in the service of both.
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I am making a precise rhetorical point: the Left sees all quests for profit as symptoms of greed; predatory self-interest. I'm showing that I can assume that premise, and that the free market STILL serves others (what the Left purports to do, but never does).
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I agree that the free market does indeed serve others as an adjunct to it's main purpose.
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