Pro capitalist status quo myths

  • Inflation of the role of capitalists/their importance
    • Capitalists take all the risk!
    • Role of "genius" (Musk/Tony Stark)
    • A distinction between "thinking" and (manual/physical) "working" people
      • Initially written w/ the CEO vs workers in mind, this could range from a split between mental/manual labor (between academics/intelligentsia and manual workers) to distinction between nations and races (one need only think of Blackness and slavery)
  • Capitalism being the best system ever (or alternatively, the worst system except for everything else - functionally the same thing?)
  • "Freedom" being it individual or free markets and how capitalism is the best system for that (what/whose freedom are we talking about though?)
    • related, capitalists/workers freely associate w/ each other and have supposedly equal power when entering contracts based on their mutual need
  • Capitalism being the most democratic system/inherently tied to democracy (again, for who?)

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