Why? $20 million is a LOT of money. We shouldn’t allow greedy sociopaths to accumulate even that much wealth at the expense of the rest of us.
The Sackler family is a good example. Why should they walk away with even $20 million (let alone the $11 billion they kept after negotiating a $4.5 billion settlement). It’s crazy.
If you want to make a billion dollars, fine, just do it without fucking over the rest of us.
(Not defending the Sacklers, fuck that family)
This is a ridiculous claim. Do we have the same amount of total wealth as we did a hundred or a thousand years ago, and the only difference is how it's distributed?
Zero-sum: adj, of, relating to, or being a situation (such as a game or relationship) in which a gain for one side entails a corresponding loss for the other side.
GDP can still increase, but doesn’t disprove capitalism isn’t zero-sum. If you haven’t been paying attention we are currently living in a period of the most wealth inequality in recent history.
Th feudal period would like a word with you.
How ignorant do you have to be to still say that in 2024? We literally spent the last century conducting worldwide social experiments to show exactly the opposite. At this point objecting to capitalism itself (I’m not talking more or less regulation within a capitalist system) is like being a flat-earther.
Leftist westerners loved my home country—as an object of their virtuous pity—when it was socialist. You’d see commercials begging for $1/day to feed people. Thanks to capitalism the country has changed completely in the last two decades. Vietnam and China both abandoned communism for capitalism and their prosperity soared.
The violence is abstracted now that capitalism has matured so we only see it as numbers but death is most definitely zero-sum.
You're welcome to that delusion but you're cheerleading a system that among it's many flaws is predicated on continuous growth that's based on a closed system with finite resources to draw from. Three guesses how that ends.