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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The first lie that capitalists sold was that capitalism rewards innovation. It doesn’t, at all. It rewards exploitation. Innovation is occasionally a by-product, but only as another avenue for exploitation. Human beings are naturally creative and will innovate out of boredom or laziness. Competition does not produce creators, it produces predators.

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      6 months ago

      It’s genuinely absurd how companies like Uber get away with positioning themselves as tech companies to investors when they’re really just a booking agency in an app that undercuts the competition through exploitation of labour by using the freelancer/contractor loophole.