Charlotte Clymer  🏳️‍🌈Verified account

Clearly we're being impatient.

I'd love to know how often social responsibility is mentioned in business courses compared to responsibility to shareholders.

People miss the caveats “enlightened” and “long term”. Businesses playing to max out immediate returns at the expense of others are neither. Additionally, unchecked capitalism is ugly and we need rule of law.

The main power & vulnerability of capitalism is it rewards self-interest. Choice between self-interest & social good? Incentive's always the former, & that leads to long term economic harm if unchecked. We need to build economic structures that require social good consideration.

Usually what pro-capitalists mean when they say this is a perfectly happy community living independently and sustainably outside the capitalist system has their natural resources stolen and is forced to work as wage slaves. From (non-capitalist) “poverty” to “wealth”

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” There’s nothing better than a good justification for your own selfishness.