Oddbean new post about login | logout I believe you have a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism. Google gets government money for military cloud, propaganda, educational computing, and more. The government extracts money involuntarily. That’s not capitalism.
Capitalism is just getting capital. Corruption gets you capital. Theft gets you capital. Guns get you capital. Its all capitalism. Screwing over other people to exploit them is the basis of any kind of capitalism. There is no capitalism that does not exploit. Read Marx, he explains what capitalism is, he coined the phrase. And every wealthy banker in the city understands Marx, Das Capital thats how they know how to make money.
No, capitalism is part of a republic of self-ownership of the fruits of an individual’s labor and time, While it’s socialism that is whatever the majority wants, even if it’s corrupt. By your logic, Why should you be entitled to own your private Nostr key? I propose a bill to seize and control your Nostr key. If you fail to hand it over to a vote, then you do not believe in socialism.
The fruits of anothers labour more like. You act like Elon musk works harder than his factory workers