TheOneWithAReallyLongName on Nostr: You're really living up to your name here. They do all of those capitalist things, ...
You're really living up to your name here. They do all of those capitalist things, and they do them constantly, but because admitting that would be devastating to your point, you can't admit that.
They don't play by the rules, and they use their proximity to power to extract money from others because that's what any powerful class does under any system. Power itself becomes a market, and they broker in it for personal gain. Socialism for the owner class is the end result of capitalism, not some invalidation of it. Those with power will use it to enrich themselves, and under capitalism, capital *is* power, so how could you expect anything else?
They don't play by the rules, and they use their proximity to power to extract money from others because that's what any powerful class does under any system. Power itself becomes a market, and they broker in it for personal gain. Socialism for the owner class is the end result of capitalism, not some invalidation of it. Those with power will use it to enrich themselves, and under capitalism, capital *is* power, so how could you expect anything else?