Max Leibman1d ago

A billionaire enters a gas station. Seeing the "Leave a penny, take a penny" dish on the counter, he scoops up all of the coins and pockets them.

"I'm a genius," he says to the protesting clerk. "I earned this money. Anybody could have taken it, but only I had the vision to see what was possible."

Show threadjarinks
@maxleibman "capitalism" no this is humanity. There will ALWAYS be people like this
Mar 28 at 9:38amWeb
Show threadOvidi Nawer17h ago
@jarinks @maxleibman no incentives, artificial scarcity or dynamics of power based on abstract nothing with a physical form are indeed capitalism.
They aren't even manipulators, smooth talkers or beautiful femme fatales like the villains of movies or ages old.
There will always be evil and stupid people, but they are nowdays incentivized throught a faulty system, born out of faulty beliefs, born out of a specific necessity well buried in the past.