That’s possibly the greatest extraction of capitalism: directing production into the pointless and harmful. Income inequality is large, war and coercion unfathomably cruel, but forcing production to be directed away from what is needed is a theft from every person that rarely gets counted. Imagine what could be done if 50% of production was actually directed for human need. Imagine the ability to be proud of your labor because you know it helps people. Imagine solving world hunger and poverty and seeing the real progress that is possible but held back by the anarchy of bourgeois production.
That’s possibly the greatest extraction of capitalism: directing production into the pointless and harmful. Income inequality is large, war and coercion unfathomably cruel, but forcing production to be directed away from what is needed is a theft from every person that rarely gets counted. Imagine what could be done if 50% of production was actually directed for human need. Imagine the ability to be proud of your labor because you know it helps people. Imagine solving world hunger and poverty and seeing the real progress that is possible but held back by the anarchy of bourgeois production.
indeed