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Capitalism breeds innovation (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by homhom9000@hexbear.net to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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That's why instead of having 1 fully functional shipping services, we have many half assed and inefficient ones.

Fedex Rant

I'm just salty at Fedex for being the worst pakage services and delaying my package 4 times. I paid for 2 day shipping and am now looking at day 5(which I still would have been okay with if it came before the 31st!). What am I going to do with a Halloween costume on Wednesday? I hope all the workers organize and greatly increase their material conditions and the CEOs never see a bonus again.

Anyone have any other stories about the inefficiency of the innovations capitalism breeds to make me feel better?

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[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To put it this way: you don't need privatized companies owned by a few men or shareholders to breed innovation. Musk doesn't do shit for developing Tesla's. Gates doesn't do shit for developing operating systems. Bezos is not the one handpicking your Amazon order.

These companies exist only with one goal in mind: make profit. They sell as much shit as they can for as little cost as possible and they will go great lengths to keep those costs at a low while squeezing as much money as possible out of the people.

It's the workers who do all the work. It's the workers who pick your orders, develop your software, build your cars. It's the workers creating value for society. It's the workers generating a profit for the companies. But the workers have shit all to say in these places. Musk, Gates, Bezos and the gang of cronies are the ones pulling the strings whichever way they like.

It's time for the workers to escape this dictatorial way of living.

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

The Liberals will say that they support free market and meritocracy on the assumption that Capitalism means free market and meritocracy that should favors the working class. In implementation, the Liberals would then redefine Capitalism to mean authoritarian plutocratic command economy (which is the original definition of Capitalism), advocate for free-riding by the rich 1% over the 99% with the excuse that the authoritianisn 1% are the only significant contributors to society, and justify plutocracy on the claim that the wealth are magically distributed to people according to their merit.