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People who know the least have the final word on all the big decisions.
CEOs and other business leaders are frequently praised for their brilliance, and capitalism is credited with the ‘success’ of our (de)meritocracy.
This is an astounding delusion. But then again, the praise comes from corporate media. This is the truth as they see it. From their isolated corner offices and boardrooms.
Capitalist enterprises, especially the big ones, are dictatorships. There is no representation and no voting. We can ask for raises in the same way that a slave could ask an overseer to stop beating him.
The decision is up to the master and the master has his own agenda. You aren’t a part of it.
Indeed, the philosophy of capitalism itself admits this. Anything good that happens to a worker is, IF EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT, a mere side effect of this system. The driving force is selfishness and greed—and under the miracle of capitalism, everyone benefits.
Clearly, this is not how it actually works. I seriously doubt that “free markets” would EVER have the positive effects attributed to them, but that’s not relevant. What matters is that in reality, in life as we experience it, the free markets don’t exist.
