Here are the classic questions....
How? By having one group of people Capitalists and owners of the means of production live off the surplus value of the workers. And by controlling resources, land, technology (intellectual and material products and services IOW R&D), and keeping it in exclusive hands. Employers try to hire workers for the least amount possible to maximize profits.
Where? They do it by keeping the concept of private property private. Lol. For use and abuse by those lucky enough to be either inheritors of wealth (40% of all wealthy people inherit their wealth in the USA they don't acquire it through their own merits, the other 'wealthy' if self made do it through using their 'connections' and their 'cultural capital' and having access to huge loans and venture capital and startup capital).
When? When do they screw the poor people over? Simple. Anytime they can and as much as they can and still legally get away with it. Usually when Fascist mentality types are in power.
What? Yes, they can screw the people over. That is the purpose of profit maximization. To live off the majority who are not the top 1% of the wealthiest. Why some are wealthy and others aren't and how consistently the poor tend to remain in poverty and the rich tend to remain rich is interesting...and well analyzed. If interested in a list of how it happens....continue on.
Why? Because capitalism is about that. CAPITAL. And not human justice. It is about matter and products and productivity and consumption and production..supply and demand and competition. Not about equity, human needs, justice or fairness. No. But it is combined to consolidate one small group of people's power and wealth over the needs of the majority. Where is the evidence? PLENTY. Usually the EXPLOITED vs. EXPLOITER always have a conflict of interest. It is based on power relationships. And the concepts that economic power and social privelege are interlinked.
What is capitalism based on? At its core it is about selfishness and keeping what is not one's right to keep (the mass labor of many millions of people) in the hands of select individuals. These individuals are not geniuses or kings or divine beings. NO. Business brilliance? Lol. compared to what Physicists with smaller salaries? Professors and bright people from all walks of life? No. It is about who is the one most willing to be the most competitive and selfish and usually ruthless of the bunch. Some feel guilty about their wealth and give many millions of it away to charity. That way they feel their lives of opulence are not all about themselves and vanity. In the final analysis they too will be dust in a grave eventually but while they are here, they want to think they are a little more 'clever' than the people who work for them that struggle with the fear of not eating and being thrown out into the street.
I don't expect the Opp McVeigh to show up. This thread is just a little contrarestante to his non-sense. Lol.
How? By having one group of people Capitalists and owners of the means of production live off the surplus value of the workers. And by controlling resources, land, technology (intellectual and material products and services IOW R&D), and keeping it in exclusive hands. Employers try to hire workers for the least amount possible to maximize profits.
Where? They do it by keeping the concept of private property private. Lol. For use and abuse by those lucky enough to be either inheritors of wealth (40% of all wealthy people inherit their wealth in the USA they don't acquire it through their own merits, the other 'wealthy' if self made do it through using their 'connections' and their 'cultural capital' and having access to huge loans and venture capital and startup capital).
When? When do they screw the poor people over? Simple. Anytime they can and as much as they can and still legally get away with it. Usually when Fascist mentality types are in power.
What? Yes, they can screw the people over. That is the purpose of profit maximization. To live off the majority who are not the top 1% of the wealthiest. Why some are wealthy and others aren't and how consistently the poor tend to remain in poverty and the rich tend to remain rich is interesting...and well analyzed. If interested in a list of how it happens....continue on.
Why? Because capitalism is about that. CAPITAL. And not human justice. It is about matter and products and productivity and consumption and production..supply and demand and competition. Not about equity, human needs, justice or fairness. No. But it is combined to consolidate one small group of people's power and wealth over the needs of the majority. Where is the evidence? PLENTY. Usually the EXPLOITED vs. EXPLOITER always have a conflict of interest. It is based on power relationships. And the concepts that economic power and social privelege are interlinked.
What is capitalism based on? At its core it is about selfishness and keeping what is not one's right to keep (the mass labor of many millions of people) in the hands of select individuals. These individuals are not geniuses or kings or divine beings. NO. Business brilliance? Lol. compared to what Physicists with smaller salaries? Professors and bright people from all walks of life? No. It is about who is the one most willing to be the most competitive and selfish and usually ruthless of the bunch. Some feel guilty about their wealth and give many millions of it away to charity. That way they feel their lives of opulence are not all about themselves and vanity. In the final analysis they too will be dust in a grave eventually but while they are here, they want to think they are a little more 'clever' than the people who work for them that struggle with the fear of not eating and being thrown out into the street.
I don't expect the Opp McVeigh to show up. This thread is just a little contrarestante to his non-sense. Lol.
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