


As a capitalist, I can stand behind this. Valid criticism.
If corporations are people, and all people are the same under the law…
True, but that’s how every legal system protects everything.
No, capital has the means to enact the legal system. If, for arguments sake, we had perfect legal systems where legal representation was free, everyone would be protected equally. To be clear, I’m not proposing any particular solution, just being nitpicky in that “that’s how any legal system protects anything” isn’t correct - there clearly are possible systems that aren’t imbalanced.
possible systems that aren’t imbalanced
…such as in the many countries where capitalism operates but doesn’t dominate politics like it does in the US.
thats actually called fascism but we pretend we have capitalism if we had capitalism 2008 would have all of the banks and mortgage land lords property owners all go bankrupt but here we are still subidizing the epstein class with tax payer dollars to promote the epstein class saying its ok and not arresting them all. in fact both biden and trump pardoned the epstein class constantly depending on bribes woops i mean donations of course.
No, this is capitalism. It’s capitalists doing the exact things Marx predicted 150 years ago that they’d do, under the exact conditions he said they’d do them under.
It’s almost like the whole thing was entirely predictable and followed a very logical sequence of events.

Doorddash will take full responsibility when they return the money and stop doing it.
Claiming whoopsidaisy on social media only flaunt the position of power and the contrived desperation that keeps drivers in their place.
I’d suggest unionize but union-busting practices are very effective and the courts are against you.
I wouldn’t say capitalism itself is about that. However, it absolutely encourages behavior that ends up like that. It’s not like these systems always existed or always functioned the way they do now. They were created and corrupted over several decades.
I whole heartedly disagree. This is exactly what capitalism was designed to do. This is a prime example of late stage capitalism.
If this wasn’t how it was supposed to be then why have economists been predicting these inevitabilities FOR DECADES!
Capitalism has always relied on certain people having capital, and using the rest of society to produce said capital, or even better use the rest of society as their capital.
Don’t fool yourself into believing this isn’t exactly what capitalism has always been bud.
I think there is a nuance between being designed to do sobering and being so badly designed that it does something. I don’t think it was intentional for the system to hoard wealth among few people. I think the desire was to have open competition among many. However it’s so poorly designed, implemented, corrupted, etc… that wealth hoarding becomes the inevitable outcome.
There were millions in penalties. Saying nothing happens is ridiculous, strong regulations and penalties remove these issues. As seen here.

The company has billions
Yes yes I know. The point is to discourage this from happening again. No penalty means no risk to trying, hefty penalty means discouraged from happening. They didnt make billions from this action so they lost money on their risk.
Paying workers on time presents an opportunity cost. The penalties have to outweigh whatever they might make by investing the ill-retained funds. (I have no idea whether that’s the case with DoorDash here, but I’d hazard a guess that some executives still think it was worth it.)

Much like liberals oppose every war but the current one, they support every rebellion against injustice . . .except the current one.
Capitalism definitely requires property rights in order to function, but even without any government (anarchy) capitalism is the default condition, and property rights would still end up being enforced, because the rich would hire their own police force to protect themselves and their property. At least we have a government, and it has a monopoly on the use of force.
Without a central government there would be no central currency and the means for exchange would be totally different. Pat of the capitalist structure we built uses the currency itself as a means of maintaining power and control. See: wealth redistribution around economic crisis.

Well, history gives us tons of examples of what happens when central currency collapses, and in full devaluations the fewer people with more immediate access to goods, collaborating associates, and weapons, are able to establish gangs, mafias, militias, or organizations that in the vast majority of cases are hierarchal in nature, eventually forming in service around a boss, often in a paradigm driven by cult of personality. Thus true anarchy is a fragile and usually short lived situation, with power vacuums soon filled with competing micro-governments, of which usually one then coallesces to take a monopoly of force over a specific region.
Old but still relevant and true. “But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners, the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that! You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what colour shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you. They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin
Hard truth 👍 Good news is we can solve the media problem by using fediverse and disconnecting ourselves from corpo media.
Almost, its about protecting OLIGARCHY not capitalism.
Capitalism would encourage new ideas and replace old outdated ones.
Can’t have that. We get status quo because every rich person needs to pass along their ill gotten gains to prevent their spawn falling into wage slavery.
None of the world leader children actually work, yet all are millionaires. How is that capitalism?

(…) not capitalism. (…) the investment/ownership class (…) the wage slavery class. None of the world leader children actually work, yet all are millionaires. How is that capitalism?
How is it anything but capitalism? What do you call the production mode that allows one class to live of the surplus value og another?
Maybe read a book?
yes capitalism ALSO requires oversight and competition, not just ownership of the means of production. otherwise its mob rule. We have neither, ergo it’s not capitalism.
ive read plenty of books and not all are reliable.
You can call that feudalism, among other things.
But that’s because it’s intentionally hard to tell if it’s feudalism in a capitalist hat or capitalism in a feudalism hat. That’s what oligarchy is.
Capitalism in itself is private enterprise, which is where capitalism defenders usually start trumpeting that capitalism isn’t actually evil. I think you can maybe make an argument that totally unregulated capitalism isn’t evil, because it’s basically anarchy. But the reality of human greed hits hard and always leads to self-regulation (collusion) and external regulation (coersion), which muddy the waters and lead to oligarchy and feudalism regardless as politicians and businessmen consolidate power.
Which book describes a real society that didn’t have an upper class feeding on a lower class? Like which society was that again?