I think we need more Elon Musks, yes.
Although, obviously, we don’t want more people who got rich by being politicians.
I have a suspicion that if Elon Musk types were given free reign we would end up with people working overtime for pennies.
Re:I am done. I give up
by bandyaboot on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:06AM
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Funny, I’d cite Elon Musk level capital accumulation and his decisions on how to allocate his capital over the last year as a perfect case study of the theory that, while capital accumulation can be a good thing, we also don’t want all our eggs in too few baskets.
Actually it’s quite good - because he spent $40bln we got to see detailed evidence of government agencies working hand-on-glove with corporations to censor information and shape political outcomes (a few years ago it was trendy to refer to this as arrangement as “fascism”).
Re:I am done. I give up
by bandyaboot on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:30AM
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We got to see his curated version of that. Someone who has become a firmly entrenched partisan cultural warrior.
I get the case for some capital accumulation. Capital does make for an amazing economic engine that we all benefit from. Capitalist countries are richer than non capitalist countries. Easy to understand. But there is a point where more capital accumulation and inequality just makes the rest of us become serfs to oligarchs.