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One of capitalisms biggest tragedies
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Usually when people are in favour of getting rid of capitalism, they’re also in favour of getting rid of hierarchies such as class divide.
Sure, but one does not inherently include the other.
Capitalism does inherently include a class divide.
How so? In particular how would you compare it to apartheid or India's old caste system?
Making big jumps in income is mostly luck based (building a company and getting funding for it), but is not inherently bound to some external property, like where you live or who your parents are.
The capitalist class vs the working class