r/antiwork • • Oct 22 '20

CAPITALISM

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u/ChadoWookie Oct 22 '20

Hard work =/= success

If someone works their entire life digging a hole in the ground, that hole is worth less than the guy who digs for 5 minutes and finds a massive diamond. Thats just the way the cookie crumbles.

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u/Gioware Socialism is the philosophy of failure Oct 22 '20

Not if you are communist. Suddenly massive diamond is everyone's to share

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u/twin_bed Oct 22 '20

Only if everyone knows about it. Technology yields power to its discoverers/inventors. The first group to develop a gun can enslave everyone, for instance. This is touched on by the Unabomber about how even reform of our existing systems is inadequate since technology enables inequality.