It gives you the freedom to choose, but since there is competition, one's choice is determined by what skill they can offer. At least it moved us from strict chains of class to individual merit. Not the best cure for all problems, but better than horrors of communist dictatorship
The heart of Capitalism is irrationality. Niether the consumers, nor the workers, control how things are produced. The actual reason for all of our work is irrelevant, everything has to be organized merely for profit. Capitalism strips rationality away from all human activity.
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Which is why I always get so angry at Randians and an-caps. The economy doesn't function on the dealings of rational actors. Capitalism depends on exploitation, manipulation, and marketing to work.
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I've recently decided that it's not capitalism per se, it's the energy that oil has put into capitalism that has brought us to this point where life is unsustainable.
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Nah, property hoarding is bad.https://libcom.org/library/capitalism-introduction …
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It favors individual/collective opportunism while still relying on centralized organization for coercion, protection and "growth". There is no freedom in situations of unequal control and distribution of resources - the whole idea of one person one vote is completely negated.
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"Capitalism is the best way of allocating resources. That's why we have millions of starving people worldwide and like 50 kinds of Doritos."
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