Memes of Production

…but if you’ve never been in a group project where one person does nothing and demands equal praise, compensation, etc… you’re lying.

In grade school this guy is called a slacker.

In B-school this guy is called a smooth operator

In the corporate world this guy is called the CEO.

That’s one of the big theoretical problems with socialism, you want equality, but plenty of people think they’re helping when they’re doing jack and then they get defensive when you suggest they do something for the community too.

In business, there's a classic problem - The Principal–agent problem which tackles the disconnect in incentives between the person demanding a service and the person providing it.

Capitalists like to pretend they've solved this problem with Profit Motive. But, in practice, they've simply stacked the deck in favor of the politically savvy, at the expense of everyone else.

Socialists also recognize the existence of the problem. They try to attack it by linking social status to socialist orthodoxy, with mixed results.

But the benefit of socialism is, at its root, ideological. People imprint on a moral compass that demands universal equity and develop a sense of justice predicated on egalitarian economic results. They revolt at inequality and organize in opposition to fascist tendency.

By contrast, capitalists reward individualism, scorn egalitarianism, and adopt eugenics theories to justify their class strata. They organize in favor of fascist policies and oppose even the appearance of egalitarianism.