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- locustsloth0
A rising tide will also swallow up all those not in a position to take advantage of it.
And you're right, if we flipped the switch tomorrow to a socialist society, even if there were not corruption within the system, there would be people who would shirk and take advantage or who otherwise try to defraud the system, and others would give up on their ingenuity because, frankly, what's the point.
But that's why i said it's a slow process. It's not only a matter of changing economies and banking and tax systems, it's changing the way people think about themselves and their fellow man. It's increasing productivity and ingenuity for the good of their fellow humans, not for the All-Mighty dollar.
Capitalism is an insatiable monster, motivated by greed. It's a gigantic King of the Mountain game where the ones at the top lord over all those below and everyone else is doing whatever they can to depose them and take their place. It's endgame is having only a few entities controlling nearly all the money, and in turn, controlling the fates of all the others who don't have it.
Those who have the passion to make things better in life will not only not need a profit to motivate them, but they will do a better job at it, given the resources, than someone who wants to make a better product at the highest profit margin.