This way, other things in life become less relevant, which might explain his behavior. Basically, he’s living with a hacked reward function.
If a monkey at a zoo hoarded all the bananas such that all the other monkeys there were starving, scientists would be examining that money down to a brain dissection to see just what was wrong with it.
Meanwhile, in human societies we have people who hoard so much wealth that they impoverish entire nations, and we put them on the covers of Forbes and Times magazines, and laud them as “pillars of the community” and “shrewd people to look up to”.
These people are parasites. We need to eliminate them to return wealth to the true creators of value - the workers and labourers.
Profit is the delta (difference) between the wages workers receive, and the price that the products of their labour garners on the open market.
Ergo, all profits are stolen wages. Or stolen labour, it’s all the same shite, different pile. The sale price of those products defines how much that labour is worth, but it’s the Parasite Class which divert a massive chunk of that value from ever getting back to the worker. In some industries like fast-food, workers receive less than 3¢ for every dollar of value they produce. That other 97¢/$ trickles upwards through greedy and obscenely overpaid people until it gets to those which have done practically no work at all - the C-suite and shareholders.
How is the C-suite executive not a valid worker, but when a blue-collar guy fills out the same paperwork and makes the same decisions, he's doing a productive and worthy work task?
Yes comrade, grab the sickle and hammer, we shall seize the means of paying ourselves everything that goes on necessary overheads normally.
We shall overpay for unskilled labour whom works on heavily automated fast food equipment, and let administration of an thousand-store international franchise be run by the worker who also fixes the ice-cream machine.
I was talking about inner motivations of people to explain their behavior.
if you believe this, capital investment does not make society better overall absent controls which insure income inequality cannot grow unchecked.
I’m not saying this is inarguably the truth, but if millions of people read “Capital in the 21st Century” then it’s at very least not a fringe idea, and one cannot simply dismiss criticism of investment as it exists in our economy.