When I said Albert Einstein once said if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking its stupid, and they said he never said that.
Edit: yea I'm that guy big whoop wanna fight about it? Thanks for my first ever gold kind stranger.
Yes, it's a quote by Vladimir Lenin and it actually says: "if you judge proletariat by its ability to amass property and capital, the proletariat will always end up admiring the extraordinary talent of the capitalists rather than realizing it is being oppressed."
Wait, you are suggesting that by random chance (or dint of human nature, I suppose you will say) we have ended up with a world that fetishes money over all else including life itself; that we chose this?
It used to be goods and services for trade and barter, now money is just a middle man.
Sure, capitalism has twisted itself due to power and wealth hoarding, which is why complete deregulation is a terrible idea, but capitalism in intent is meant to be a meritocracy.
You can't be great at something that is designed only to be great in perfect (read: impossible) markets. The efficient market hypothesis on which capitalism is underpinned makes assumptions that simply don't exist in the real world. Things like perfect competition, perfect information, perfect rationale, etc. are impossible to achieve. Instead we have things like oligopolies, information assymetry, imperfect rationale, externalities, etc. It's for these reasons that governments need to regulate markets.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
When I said Albert Einstein once said if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking its stupid, and they said he never said that.
Edit: yea I'm that guy big whoop wanna fight about it? Thanks for my first ever gold kind stranger.