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Dreepapult posted...

Capitalism works if people are actually altruistic

Since they aren't the poor and vulnerable get screwed and taken advantage of to make the rich richer

If people were good and honest trickle down would actually happen. Instead the only thing that trickles down is piss.

The problem is, natural selection under capitalism specifically elevates people who are selfish and conniving, who then in turn help shape the system to be even more favorable to people who are selfish and conniving, so much that it gets normalized to the point the public generally respects, if not worships, the people that got to the top by being shitty. Then you have more people trying to emulate the most successful people and they push the envelope even further on their way to the top and you get the downward spiral we have now because people are too complacent to add new safeguards or adjust incentive structures. It's like a multiplayer game full of exploits but no one wants them patched.