American business owners are very dumb. They will pay $10 in capex to save $1 in labor. And they will spend $100 in marketing to salvage slop that cost them $1 to produce.
But when you’re playing a rigged game, you can afford to play stupid. Just so long as you maintain a monopoly on violence, you can always steal back your losses down the line.
The first thing that lets you know none of capitalism is an equal exchange of value.
American business owners are very dumb. They will pay $10 in capex to save $1 in labor. And they will spend $100 in marketing to salvage slop that cost them $1 to produce.
But when you’re playing a rigged game, you can afford to play stupid. Just so long as you maintain a monopoly on violence, you can always steal back your losses down the line.
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Or get it back as interest on loans, which as the late David Graeber tells us is the same thing.