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Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources' (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I was waiting for that one.

And no.

The same thing happens in state communism - in fact, it generally happens even faster, since the disconnect between work and reward is there from the start, and the party leaders are in such a perfect position to siphon off reward other people earned. They can do immediately what a capitalist system can only do after wealth has been concentrated and used to buy political power.

It comes with the establishment of a hierarchy by which some can arrange things such that they enjoy unearned privilege - it doesn't much matter specifically how that hierarchy is established or nominally justified, and "capitalism" is just one of them.