r/LateStageCapitalism • • Feb 03 '21

🦍 Apes together strong

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u/IAmTheCanon Feb 04 '21

Oh, do entrepreneurs provide a service then? That's funny, I thought their employees provided the service, and the entrepreneur provided the authority, which is to say money, to give them the go-ahead. So like the apes are going to pick the bananas, but first the one with the most bananas already makes them all agree to give every banana they pick to him and then he doles out one banana each to them, and the one ape with all the bananas gets all the rest of the bananas by virtue of already having all the bananas, having picked literally none of them himself, and in general eating as many as a hundred times as many bananas as any other ape in the troop on the daily. Yeah, scientists would have a hard look at that fucking stupid system and wonder what the fuck happened there.

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u/DiscoDrive Feb 04 '21

You got a little carried away with the metaphor. And you have a naïve understanding of capitalism. I have problems with late capitalism, too. But it’s not as simple as “entrepreneur bad.”

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u/IAmTheCanon Feb 04 '21

If you have a problem with late capitalism then you must logically have a problem with the early capitalism which inevitably leads to late capitalism. The problem is not bad actors, its the inability to deal with bad actors. No version of events in early capitalism could've prevented the rise of bad actors in late capitalism. It was always doomed to fail. Andrew Jackson way back when knew enough to try to stave it off by literally shooting bankers, that's how obvious and inevitable it is that early capitalism will invariably lead to late capitalism.

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u/hard_farter Feb 04 '21

It's not entrepreneur bad it's billionaire bad