These may be no better than greed (eg power, cruelty, sociopathy, revenge...), but point is, greed is not actually a good drive to have for capitalist success. It compromises your ability to compete intelligently. It’s a second-rate motive for second-rate business minds.
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Like Frank Underwood notes, choosing money over power (or almost any of the dark drives) is the mark of a loser. If socialists want to really defeat capitalists they should start by recognizing that greed ain’t the driver of their toughest adversaries.
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3rd rate capitalists think they’re winning if they’re sitting on lots of cash 2nd rate capitalists think they’re winning if they’re sitting on lots of cheap debt 1st rate capitalists know they can only win if they’re solving for value money doesn’t even “see” yet
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Really? So the capitalists who keep the carried interest loophole open, and who fight tooth and nail to avoid taxes, and who build up monopoly power then fight to keep it… they don’t qualify for you? A free market requires government controls to stay that way.
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'Greed is good for lack of a better word' ~Gordon Gekko
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Also driven by 'winning'
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"Socialism for corporations" is pretty much how things were done for most human history. Attach yourself to the chief/king and let him flow the wealth of the people your way.
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Confused by what you mean by greed in this context. I interpret as "insufficient altruism despite means". Greed not just for money.
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Consider the work of
@KevinCarson1 and others who have written abt how "socialism for corporations" as you call it has been central to capitalism since the beginning. See here https://c4ss.org/content/23150 and here https://c4ss.org/content/51614 frexpic.twitter.com/QkUQcjJfdH
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Ofc it is entirely possible to advocate for free markets-in fact for a truly freed market-while being anti-capitalist. They go together quite well actually http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf …
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