Or is it just the people behind it that are detrimental to society in their pursuits of wealth?
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Is Capital Itself Bad?
Brayden Perez
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Angel Richardson
Yes it's "bad".
No, you can have the nicest people as CEO's yet they will still be forced to do as a CEO does.
Stupid question and a stupid thread.
Joseph Gutierrez
You haven't explained why though.
Nathan Foster
Yes, the majority of problems are systematic and are not associated with individuals. That's what differentiates the anti-capitalist left from socdems and everything to their right.
read marx or pick up a fucking book. go to the reading list thread for a list.
Blake Martinez
A CEO that refuses to pursuit profit and the growth of his enterprise because it would mean doing bad things directly sees his self-interest, the interest of his enterprise and the common good suffer. Eventually his business would go under and be driven out by competition, and he would stop being a CEO.
Matthew Ward
Profit incentive prioritizes worthless paper currency over power, subsistence, and well-being.
dollars > a house, a job, and a place in society. This doesn't apply on an individual level, but in greater society, it does. It's nothing but cancer.
Parker James
That is the epitome of liberal thought.
"If nicer people [of my preferred identity] were in charge, Capitalism would be perfect"
James Scott
Not only it isn't true, but all people are fairly decent and well meaning, and eat other people mostly because they themselves don't want to be eaten, rather than for some sadistic and malevolent intentions.
Yes, the tidal, non-personalized forces of capitalism create misery, not "bad people"
Logan Evans
Capital is the fundamentally progressive force that acts to multiply society's labor output at a growing pace.
It's just that the process that it does that through kinda sucks.
Nathaniel Nelson
That's valid and reasonable from your perspective. If that really is the case and Capital is a constant that leads to all these bad things happening, then what is the solution to creating a healthy and decent society?