Pants-of-dog wrote:This is an entirely theoretical and imaginary way of looking at things.
Take Musk, for example. He did not risk anything. He can apparently lose billions of dollars and still be a billionaire. He did not come up with the idea of electric cars. He does not even run the business, since he hires others to do it.
All he had to do was inherit and invest, and even the latter was done as risk free as possible.
Musk has made a lot of technological innovations in the EV space. Are you saying he stole patents? You can say he did nothing, meanwhile he's pushed EV tech and consumer usage more than anyone ever has, regardless of your oddly targeted resentment. And yeah, he can still lose billions and still be worth billions because people have voluntarily given him their money because they like his ideas and believe in them enough to buy his products and invest in his companies. If you don't like him you're free to not invest and to not buy his products. The market is democratic that way. People complain about Walmart and Amazon all the time, which is fine....and yet they keep shopping there. People vote with their wallets. If you don't like a company then put your money where your mouth is, but you also don't have control over other people's choices.
If Musk has done anything to break the law towards his employees he should be punished by the law. The guy has been sued a gazillion times, including by women claiming sexual harassment at his companies.
And what do you mean he never risked anything? He's took all his money and created extremely risky companies for which there was virtually no market. He almost failed on many of his companies many times, he would have been financially ruined. You don't even know what you're talking about, it's all based on resentment.
This is incorrect. In capitalism, people have to pay for food and housing, and this requires a job.
Name a time in human history where most people didn't have to engage in labour to survive? It has never existed. If you don't want to work for another company go mow lawns or trim hedges or a gazillion other jobs where you work for yourself.
For people who don't want to bother setting up and running their own company there's a lot of jobs being offered from companies where the entire business infrastructure is already set up for them and they just have to show up to work and do their job and go home. Again, who is exploiting who?
Why do you think you're entitled to the product of other people's labour, whether its growing and picking veggies or having a dwelling built or owning companies you had no part in creating or investing or working to make successful?
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All of a sudden these pro-Palestinian campus protestors gladly support illegally occupying land that doesn't belong to them, and enforcing checkpoints, blockades, and ethnic apartheid. Some of them even openly support genocide.