RE: Uber Pay Gap
February 8, 2018 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2018 at 3:33 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 8, 2018 at 3:07 pm)Shell B Wrote:(February 8, 2018 at 2:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Capitalism simply refers to a economic system where the means of production are controlled privately and operated for profit. It says nothing about who owns the services.
I know that much (just enough to pass exams, if you will), but wouldn't universal health care or single-payer health care be non-Capitalist by definition?
No, it won’t. Capitalism is simply about private ownership and operation of capital assets. That’s it.
If the compliant is that mandatory contribution to healthcare might somewhat limit the freedom of capital asset owner to operate in whatever way that maximizes their profit, then so is any law against Child labor or negligent homocide. The need to circumscribe capital asset owner’s freedom to maximize his private profit in order to increase overall social good has become a part of established practice of capitalism, as oppose to the definition of capitalism, and is shown to be necessary to enable capitalism to survive and not crash and burn amidst cumulative discontent and violent social revolution of its own making similar to the French and Russian revolutions.
