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viklove • today at 6:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Investors are motivated by returns, not responsible decision-making or societal benefit. Our culture is rooted in rewarding greed and granting the greediest individuals power over the rest of us. Isn't this the inevitable end-state of unfettered capitalism?


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MentalM • today at 8:32 PM

> Isn't this the inevitable end-state of unfettered capitalism?

Aren't capitalism built on exactly the opposite principles? It is not greed that rewarded, but the creation of societal goods, and power granted not to the greediest, but to the most useful individuals.