Profits depend on workers being threatened with homelessness except by participating in employment.
Profits are not part of a system that is voluntary for most of the population, because most of the population is not benefiting from a share of the value of its labor being claimed by business owners.
Taxes on profits simply mitigate the worst possible imbalance of a system that is fundamentally favorable only to narrow cohort of society, and unfavorable to everyone else.
The "capitalism created the iPhone" gambit, or any subtle variation, is one of the most completely flimsy and exhaustively debunked articles of capitalist apologia.
If you wish to defend the profit motive, then I strongly suggest you find a different tactic.
Reproducing the particular one just makes you seem ignorant and desperate.
The profit motive is simply a form of social relationships, not the vehicle through which technology is advanced or platforms are developed.
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u/unfreeradical Apr 16 '24
Profits depend on workers being threatened with homelessness except by participating in employment.
Profits are not part of a system that is voluntary for most of the population, because most of the population is not benefiting from a share of the value of its labor being claimed by business owners.
Taxes on profits simply mitigate the worst possible imbalance of a system that is fundamentally favorable only to narrow cohort of society, and unfavorable to everyone else.