Message from @raqdog
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People who generate the most successful ideas and markets in a capitalist society are hardly ever driven by just profit. Their companies end up being sustained by it and thrive off of profit because people want more of it. And it's a useful byproduct that sustains more innovation
How do you see a Silicon Valley emerge in a socialist society?
Or a spacex?
Or an amazon?
Or Walmart
oh no, this profit only benefits the bourgeois, ever since do the workers enjoy the fruits of their own labour? Profit keeps the capitalist system going, if not it would collapse. No matter what the capitalists are on a personal level, without profit, there would be no capitalism
@raqdog they would be all communally owned by the people, and thus far more resources would be allocated to it
Walgreens didn't even use a business model that accounts for profit. They accounted for number customer visits.
so how would a company operate without profit?
there would be no incentive to
just look at pathetic NASA
only has a budget of 20 billion
If they used a business model that focused on profit they wouldn't have even come up with the idea to place a store every few blocks
while the US military has a budget of 500 billion dollars to fund imperialism
tell me that
NASA has no goal
pathetic, right?
channeling funds into the military
instead of investing into science
Or last several years I mean
yea, when the space race was over, there was no reason to extend it
Our military is the largest threat deterrent and humanitarian effort on the planet
yes, I'm pretty sure Latin American nations faced posed a threat to the USA in the 60s and 70s militarily
ever heard of Chile attempting to land in San Francisco to establish socialism?
A business sustains it self on profit, but also on risk, gotta take risk
yes and so?
Well that's why the military is a deterrent
It deters conflicts.
HAHAH
It's a very difficult metric to quantify. You can't list the number of conflicts you deter. You'll never know
Did Latin America ever wanted to get into a conflict with the US?
you created wars which cost trillions of dollars
overthrow governments
Do they have the option to even want to?
and set the stage ripe for the rise of isis
you overthrew democratically elected governments
in short, the US military is the biggest threat to democracy
Those are marvelous wars. A whole generation of people participated in them