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Capitalism is designed to give power to the few at the top. Nothing about it is a meritocracy, its a funnel of money straight to whoever can exploit the system more than the rest. Has nothing to do with merit, but to "get yours" through whatever means necessary, including crushing those employees who actually do the hard labor that they then extract wealth from.
Say, the system was designed to prevent cheating. Could a meritocracy exist?
Define cheating. I doubt many CEOs would consider anything they've done to get to the position they are as "cheating".
To "cheat", one must break the rules. And the rules have been designed to not only allow for but encourage current behavior.
CEO'S are propped up by investors and guaranteed the money invested traces back to some sort of nepotism.
Which is the way it's designed to work, so not cheating.
Also, the definition of nepotism involves favoring relatives. I get what you mean, but it's not quite accurate. There's certainly favoritism going on, just not between relatives generally.
Here's a common definition of neoptism:
Maybe I sprung the word "cheat" on you too soon, but 'nepotism is cheating' is a brief a summation of my argument.
What's going on with overpaid CEOs and underpaid workers is not nepotism
cheating means breaking of rules, and they're not
You can argue that we should change rules to disincentivize some of the behaviors we're seeing and to make them "cheating". And I would't argue against you if we could somehow make those improvements. But if you're framing "cheating" as against yours or my personal moral framework instead of law, that is not something you can expect everyone to agree with you on.
This is actually the supposition of my question.
But you're not cracking the surface and it's honestly really boring exchanging ideas with you. I don't think I'll carry on.
I agree it gets very boring when you are too careless to accurately articulate your views. Good luck!
What an exchange!
Excuse me, sir/ma'am. This wasn't a grammar dispute, you have no jurisdiction. Am I being detained?
You have the right to remain silent. Any grammar mistakes you make will be used against you in the court of semantics.