• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    Copyright and inheritance can’t exist in a capitalist society

    Under true capitalism, everyone starts at 0 regardless of their birth and the only way to make more money than someone else is to work more hours regardless of profession. Over saturation of a given market is fixed by the invisible hand where people just move onto something that gives more hours

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      Under true capitalism, everyone starts at 0 regardless of their birth

      Then true capitalism will never exist. At best, it’s a Platonic Ideal.

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      A society where no one has capital and the only way to get ahead is to provide more labour? And you call them steamed hams despite the fact they’re obviously grilled?

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        The ideals of capitalism were to punish the rich land owners/nobles who were wealthy without ever working and empower the workers who were poor despite working for their whole lives

        It’s a good lesson to teach that the wealthy would rather rebrand their image than give up wealth

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      Copyright used to have a hard limit in years. Inheritance used to pack a substantial tax.