So, logic goes out the window, “No, this has nothing to do with politics and the desire to control resources! This is about [protecting family or ensuring cultural purity or stopping terrorism, etc. from the list of bullshit]!”
You also get the morality play, “crony capitalist” apologists. Sometimes that ties in with the cultural rationale; the problem is too many foreign/minority capitalists without “Western values”, or there’s not enough girlbosses, too much machismo in the board room. But broadly, capitalism isn’t the issue the issue is capitalists lacking some virtue or moral fortitude. Hence arguments about needing better meritocracy or ensuring only self-made bootstrappers get to the top.
That’s generally when I stress that capitalism has no room for morality, that capitalism and morals aren’t simply ideologically opposed, but are actually mechanically incompatible. “And what happens to those good, socially responsible girlbosses when they go up against the ruthless crony capitalists? They adapt or die”
Simply put, whatever a system incentivizes, is what people are going to do. No amount of morality is going to overwrite the profit and growth motive. Morals either get tossed to the wayside or, more likely, the concept of what is moral gets reformed in the likeness of the system.
You also get the morality play, “crony capitalist” apologists. Sometimes that ties in with the cultural rationale; the problem is too many foreign/minority capitalists without “Western values”, or there’s not enough girlbosses, too much machismo in the board room. But broadly, capitalism isn’t the issue the issue is capitalists lacking some virtue or moral fortitude. Hence arguments about needing better meritocracy or ensuring only self-made bootstrappers get to the top.
That’s generally when I stress that capitalism has no room for morality, that capitalism and morals aren’t simply ideologically opposed, but are actually mechanically incompatible. “And what happens to those good, socially responsible girlbosses when they go up against the ruthless crony capitalists? They adapt or die”
Simply put, whatever a system incentivizes, is what people are going to do. No amount of morality is going to overwrite the profit and growth motive. Morals either get tossed to the wayside or, more likely, the concept of what is moral gets reformed in the likeness of the system.