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Written by Paddy on 2025-01-03 at 18:28

The funniest thing about capitalism is that the capital class just refuses to accept that the value they're contributing is the capital.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/12/12/g-s1-37662/breakthrough-hiv-lenacapavir

Elon Musk could buy Gilead outright, still be a centibillionaire, give away Lenacapavir for free, and be known forever as the man who ended HIV.

But he would absolutely never do that, because it would make him just rich, not a genius, and he can't just be rich.

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Written by Paddy on 2025-01-03 at 18:41

Like the core premise of capitalism is that contributing capital is valuable and people should be rewarded for it. (And I don't necessarily disagree with the premise, I just think there are other economic systems that make sense, too, and that perhaps contributing capital isn't quite as valuable as we're currently making it out to be.) But when it comes down to what value an individual contributed to an effort, capitalists do not want to be perceived as their value being their capital.

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Written by Paddy on 2025-01-03 at 18:42

Like, my guy, that's the whole fundamental underpinning of this system.

But it's not a glamorous cultural narrative for them and I think that's so, so funny.

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