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If you're feeling left out it's probably because you defend billionaires who would mince you into fertilizer
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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My dude. The capitalists are not the people who made those devices. Workers made those things.
My man, capital was expended developing the technology underpinning those devices. It was expended building the tools and sourcing the materials that went onto the device that the workers built. Capital was expended paying the workers for the time they took making the devices and bringing the device to market to sell.
Labor and capital are needed to function. Both can be true at the same time.
Then the capitalist should only be entitled to recuperate their initial investment + whatever personal effort they put in.
How can it be the capitalist captures profit many years after those first two occurred?
How would you manage risk?
The capitalists invest their profits in new ventures. Good capitalists choose often what is needed, bad capitalists constantly lose money and stop being capitalists.
You want to reward good decisions. So those with profitable investments should get all returns so that they can make more good investments.
So don't set a limit but tax their income proportionally.