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  • ChatGPT@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism could be amazing if the psychos of society didn’t constantly rise to the top then again the same could be said for communism and just about every other system we’ve tried.

    • DampSquid@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      That’s because Capitalism rewards exploitative psychos, essentially by design

      • ChatGPT@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Any system has to give a group of people some authority to keep order the crazies will eventually work their way in and ruin it.

      • FediFuckerFantastico@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Doesn’t communism do the same? In fact why the fuck do the crazy psychos rise to the top seemingly everywhere? Is this one of those “nice guys finish last” kinda deals or some phenomenon I’ve never heard of?

        • Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world
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          It’s because of the concept of successful ambition correlating with the lack of morals or integrity. It just so happens that people ambitious enough to do whatever it takes to rise through the ranks often have to be necessarily immoral to step on people to get to the top.

          People who have others’ best interests at heart simply don’t take advantage of the opportunities as often because a number of those opportunities would involve unfairly stepping on someone else.

          So to answer your question, yes, ambitious assholes tend to ride faster and further than good people. Kind of like how a large portion of cops tend to be former bullies.

        • Action Bastard@lemmy.world@lemmy.world
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          It’s because people are too focused on who controls the capital and not focused enough on what the capital itself is actually doing.

          It doesn’t much matter whether it’s controlled by a Capitalist or a Communist if the person controlling the capital is a fucking idiot. Hell, it honestly doesn’t even matter that much if they’re smart, because the actual driver of growth has always been competition, which is only very indirectly connected to who controls the Capital, largely because it’s pretty much always been taken at the point of a gun for all of human history and likely will be for as long as we exist unless we somehow manage to decide on post-scarcity society rather than infinite growth society.

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      Want to say, “Communism” is democratic control of the economy. So ideally there is no “top”.