r/Muckrackers Feb 07 '23

Capitalism is exploitation

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Fake video lmao. Capitalism is not exploitation. You can practice socialism here if you choose. I’m sure there are thousands of migrants who will willingly take your place.

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u/JohnandJesus Feb 08 '23

Imo capitalism is likely the best economic system we currently have, but it is also built on exploitation

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '23

It all boils down to corrupt people.

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u/ProleAcademy Feb 08 '23

It doesn't. Capitalism has built in incentives that take otherwise decent people and pressure them to be exploitive bastards because if they don't, their competitor will do it, take market share and run them out of business.

Capitalism requires exploiting the labor of others and it required enormous violence for original capitalists to wrest the means of production from lower classes in the first place. All subsequent capitalism is built on that legacy. It requires constant growth, constant lowering of costs and minimizing your expenditure on labor. Capitalism can't say "enough is enough". The incentives create bastards out of otherwise decent people, as well as further incentivize the already greedy