Capitalism means a system of creation of goods and services in a market filled with individuals who choose what and how much to produce, with a focus on the existence of private property both physical and intellectual.
Which is to say, literally every modern nation for hundreds of years.
Capitalism relies on extraction of resources be that material, human, or social. For someone to make a profit, someone else must make a loss in one of those fields - usually all 3 at once.
Yes it is the system we have been running for a few hundred years. Completely unrelated but in the last few hundred years something no one can figure out happened and now the majority of our species and most other life on Earth is going to die due to global warming.
For someone to make a profit, someone else must make a loss in one of those fields - usually all 3 at once.
Well idk about you, but I pretty frequently make homemade soaps and breads from scratch and no pe0ople or animals were harmed at any point. The people who harvested the ingredients profited and the people who purchase from me are gaining more value than they lose. I personally suffer no loss, I enjoy doing it and I even get paid for it on top of that.
So your presumption that there “must be a loss” is stupid and pointless. Satisfaction is constantly created and consumed, always has been and always will be no matter what system you’re in.
Well idk about you, but I pretty frequently make homemade soaps and breads from scratch and no pe0ople or animals were harmed at any point
Because that doesn’t describe capitalism. The capitalist mode of production involves a business owner (capitalist) who owns the capital, and a worker who doesn’t own capital. The capital-less worker enters a “free” employment contract with the capitalist, in which the worker sells his labour time as a commodity to the capitalist to put the capital to work, in exchange for a wage lower than the total value of goods/services produced, NAD those goods/services are later sold in a free market.
What you’re describing is manufacture, not capitalism, and it was abundant in pre-capitalist societies in which a lot of the total consumption didnt come from purchases in a market.
I’m not going to give people the time when they’re arguing with dictionaries. I live in a capitalism, I participate in a free market, I set the value of my own labor the same as everyone else.
I didn’t say the word slavery at any point, I specifically talked about “free” contracts. It’s the literal definition of capitalism, I haven’t made judgment or given an opinion.
I set the value of my own labor
No, you don’t. Your wages are limited upwards by the total productivity, and downwards by the reserve army of labor. This is well studied and measured, and the only way to fight it within capitalism collectively and meaningfully is through artificial labour scarcity, i.e. unionization
Unless the agriculture relies on slave labor like private prisons or authoritarian nations, yeah, they do profit. Otherwise, why would they do it? It’s not hard to not buy goods from North Korea or the FSIN, if anything I feel like you’d have to jump through hoops in order to do that.
I’m not going to waste my time debating and showing you the countless examples of just how exploited agri workers are across the world and the terrible conditions they slave away in, even in our comfy developed nations. There is zero chance you have not already been made aware of this fact and have chosen to ignore it.
Likewise I feel the majority of users here are not as deliberately ignorant as yourself, and would gain nothing from seeing you further proven wrong.
. . . The rich robbing the poor is literally capitalism?
Capitalism is a pyramid scheme at its core, it relies on peoples as the bottom losing out so those at the top can profit.
Capitalism means a system of creation of goods and services in a market filled with individuals who choose what and how much to produce, with a focus on the existence of private property both physical and intellectual.
Which is to say, literally every modern nation for hundreds of years.
Capitalism relies on extraction of resources be that material, human, or social. For someone to make a profit, someone else must make a loss in one of those fields - usually all 3 at once.
Yes it is the system we have been running for a few hundred years. Completely unrelated but in the last few hundred years something no one can figure out happened and now the majority of our species and most other life on Earth is going to die due to global warming.
Well idk about you, but I pretty frequently make homemade soaps and breads from scratch and no pe0ople or animals were harmed at any point. The people who harvested the ingredients profited and the people who purchase from me are gaining more value than they lose. I personally suffer no loss, I enjoy doing it and I even get paid for it on top of that.
So your presumption that there “must be a loss” is stupid and pointless. Satisfaction is constantly created and consumed, always has been and always will be no matter what system you’re in.
Because that doesn’t describe capitalism. The capitalist mode of production involves a business owner (capitalist) who owns the capital, and a worker who doesn’t own capital. The capital-less worker enters a “free” employment contract with the capitalist, in which the worker sells his labour time as a commodity to the capitalist to put the capital to work, in exchange for a wage lower than the total value of goods/services produced, NAD those goods/services are later sold in a free market.
What you’re describing is manufacture, not capitalism, and it was abundant in pre-capitalist societies in which a lot of the total consumption didnt come from purchases in a market.
I’m not going to give people the time when they’re arguing with dictionaries. I live in a capitalism, I participate in a free market, I set the value of my own labor the same as everyone else.
I didn’t say the word slavery at any point, I specifically talked about “free” contracts. It’s the literal definition of capitalism, I haven’t made judgment or given an opinion.
No, you don’t. Your wages are limited upwards by the total productivity, and downwards by the reserve army of labor. This is well studied and measured, and the only way to fight it within capitalism collectively and meaningfully is through artificial labour scarcity, i.e. unionization
Oh yeah, agricultural workers across the world are well known for profiting off of capitalism.
You are being so deliberately obtuse, it’s pretty sad how invested you are in defending such a system.
Unless the agriculture relies on slave labor like private prisons or authoritarian nations, yeah, they do profit. Otherwise, why would they do it? It’s not hard to not buy goods from North Korea or the FSIN, if anything I feel like you’d have to jump through hoops in order to do that.
Please stop being so dishonest.
Wow those facts totally refute my point, thank you for posting such a thorough and well thought counterargument.
Your point ignored reality.
I’m not going to waste my time debating and showing you the countless examples of just how exploited agri workers are across the world and the terrible conditions they slave away in, even in our comfy developed nations. There is zero chance you have not already been made aware of this fact and have chosen to ignore it.
Likewise I feel the majority of users here are not as deliberately ignorant as yourself, and would gain nothing from seeing you further proven wrong.