• Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, but there are people running honest and genuine business, even in a capitalist system. But those there are also those who just try to fuck over everyone. Most corporations, politicians, banks, investment funds and others do the latter, not because capitalism forces them to do so, but because these humans are living pieces of garbage and should be locked away or executed. I don’t know if it helps to take all fault away from the people running the capitalist system and attributing it to the system itself.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 months ago

      The honest and genuine businesses aren’t rewarded to nearly the same extent as the corporations who exploit their labor force and their consumer base, and who lobby the government to write laws benefiting them.

      If the system worked, then the honest and genuine businesses would be rewarded with more profit than the exploitative businesses.

      For example, Nestlé makes more money by exploiting child labor and stealing water than if they didn’t do those things.

      Walmart made more money by driving small businesses out of business than if they were to allow competition from those small businesses. Same with Amazon.

      We need to have a system that both punishes exploitative corporations and people, and also rewards the honest, non-exploitative businesses and people.