• infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    profit is be all and end all and you don’t need demand to generate it, as the entire concept of Wall Street should demonstrate

    That is literally what I started off saying.

    I think that drive for growth, mediated by personal interest, is way more influential than competition.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Personal interest and drive doesn’t mean jackshit, IF YOU CAN’T COMPETE, every capitalist has a personal interest, every firm is driven toward profit, what matters is the mechanism that allows that interest and drive to be realized, and under Marx it’s called competition-as-war