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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months agoCapitalism does its best to try an make sure that greedy actions also result in benefits for society.
That’s absolutely hilarious. No it doesn’t. Greedy actions are rewarded. See every person on the above list.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Greedy actions are always rewarded, you can complain to god if you want but that is realistically unchangeable. I am talking about benefiting society in addition to the person making them.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have not benefited society. They have drained from it.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 5 months ago
First of all, not really. However I hate Musk (trust me I do), Tesla still makes cars, SpaceX still launches satellites, and Starlink still provides internet. These thing benefit society. However Bezos treats his employees, Amazon sells and delivers goods, runs twitch, makes TV shows, … These are benefits to society that Musk and Bezos helped with. Does it make it ok to mistreat workers? Absolutely not. Does it make it ok to evade/“optimize” taxes? Absolutely not. Capitalism NEEDS TO BE REGULATED. We have seen unregulated capitalism fail just as hard as pure communism. But that does not mean that they deserve nothing. That they can’t have a villas or a sports cars for helping create these companies that benefit others.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why are Musk or Bezos needed for any of those things? How did they help in specific? Did they design the cars or the rockets? Did they create the products on Amazon or the algorithms?