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Capitalism does work like that, except being able to retire into a life of comfort is only defined by your ability to make a lot of money


And your ability to not get the value of your labour taken advantage of by entities with leverage, resources, and information vastly superior in all ways to your own position.


Which is based not on your ability to produce value, but your ability to capture value and charge a cut of every unit, and is thus a massive disincentive to produce public goods.


It's often based on your ability to capture other people's value way more than creating value on your own.




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