Comments by "mustang607" (@mustang607) on "How the rich steal from the poor | Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. Ability is not valued in this system. Need is. That's why it fails. Unless creating more needy individuals depended upon the state is considered success.
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  2. Marx never really valued the people with ability much. He valued the people with need. His "evolving" generations of ideological followers bully people to be more and more dependent upon the state, which is molded to serve the needy by exploiting those with ability.
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  3.  @matthewbazeley2984  What about the vast majority of new business ventures where there is no surplus for quite some time?
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  4. Definitely anti-reasoning system that incentivizes need over ability. It doesn't take a lot of thought to understand why this fails.
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  5.  @matthewbazeley2984  But don't employees want guaranteed paychecks plus other benefits regardless if there's any surplus value created or not?
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  6.  @jjn6914  That begs the question that if your well intentioned actions create an overall loss, who decides how much you earn? You?
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