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I find it difficult to understand the dogmatic simplification that exists in every single marxist take - it's always the exact same argument/narrative: company owners are stealing from workers and that's how they get rich and you don't. I feel like it's easy to believe this dogma if: - your priors are biased with the publicly celebrated (or hated) successful companies that dominate every news cycle. for every one of those unicorns, there are many thousands where the founders are couch surfing or eating a diet of 100% ramen - i.e. taking insane risk to build something of their own vs. earn much much more as employees (lol) - you've only ever worked as an employee. you definitely trade a lot of upside in exchange for more stability in your job and monthly income. though not true for all jobs, you will still experience far less risk working for someone else vs. trying to start your own business. that risk is why it's fair that you have uncapped outcome vs. capped, in my eyes. I feel like there are so many valid critiques of capitalism - like exploitative monopolies that kill innovation; creating a hyper-competitive culture that can kill the soul/rationalise any act in the virtue of "winning" or "survival"; create a societal obsession with material things. But instead it's this one idea that made much more sense in the late 1800s being endlessly rehashed in a completely different era

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