• MolochAlter@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No, it’s a byproduct of differences in skill and fitness to tasks, it’s gonna happen even in centralised economies (that were never tried and if they were it wasn’t real communism, I’m sure) it’s just not going to be recognised and rewarded if everyone is supposedly equal.

    • Katana314@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      I don’t think we should prescribe to the idea differences in skill are AS great as riches would imply.

      Elon Musk is not MILLIONS of times better at making cars than the next manufacturer. Most would say he’s worse.

      What will also be relevant is the degree to which companies now subvert each other. If one person got really good at baking, he could take out an ad in the paper, right? Except adspot prices have gone way up because of rich companies running the same promo 1000x into people’s eyeballs about their frozen imported bread, even though this one guy might have something people actually want.

      Or, look at game companies that all have competent products but are carefully managing their release date to avoid GTAVI.