The Enlightened Capitalist: Does Profit Equate with Worker Degradation as Some So-Called Progressive Activists Claim?

Understanding EEPPSA (efficiency, effectiveness, precision, productivity, and self-awareness)

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I am a bit of a tortured soul. I live with a socialist heart and a capitalist mind. Never having been a big fan of rigid ideological thinking I don’t believe it serves anyone nor the world to claim that I am one or the other.

Those who say that capitalism hurts workers because businesses make more money by selling things than they pay the workers who make the things, I say “You are right on many levels and yet you are a bit delusional about how humans are hard-wired”. The competitive element that seems so part of humans, cannot be eliminated by a smile some so-called progressive neo-Marxist pseudo-Psycho-babble or nice-sounding ideology.

And just to make sure you understand what I am saying, I’m not some Fox News, Tucker Carlson, alt-right ideologue. I am a dyed in the wool progressive and have been since the Vietnam War. I am also a businessperson with many very happy immigrant employees.