r/dankmemes • u/bawla-hedgehog • May 04 '25

meta Get this man his own planet atp

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u/a_trane13 May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

Huh? Capitalism absolutely makes judgement on who deserves what. Those with more money deserve more and those with less money deserve less.

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u/o_o_o_f May 05 '25

Maybe in some reads of capitalism as a sociological construct but not as an economic one.

Like, I generally agree with the sentiment you’re sharing, but it’s an attitude and take you’ll find in op-eds, not in economic textbooks

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u/a_trane13 May 05 '25

Money is how resources are allocated in the system. It’s quite literally saying that those with more money deserve more resources than those with less.

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u/o_o_o_f May 05 '25

Again, that is just not present in capitalism as an economic theory. There’s arguments to be made about capitalism as a sociological construct / how it exists in different systems around the world, and how that differs from capitalism as an economic theory, and how ethics enters there. But capitalism as an economic theory does not prescribe any moral judgment on its members.

I say all this as a leftist who hasn’t shopped at Target or Amazon for the better part of half a decade. I am not arguing for capitalism in any way.

We might just not have anything else to say here. I think I’m more or less repeating myself.

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u/a_trane13 May 05 '25

How is deciding who gets what resources not a moral judgement?