The unfair distribution of wealth in capitalism
People seem to have a hard time
realising the relationship between maths, society, money and the
value of ones time and life. When it comes to the topic about the
distribution of wealth there is one argument that I hear over and
over again. The argument is that if somebodies built a business from
scratch and is now making millions of dollars he is a worthy
recipient of such wealth and that hes employees are to be grateful to
have a job despite getting the lowest wages possible. “he built it
from Scratch” being the Key word of justified this behaviour.
Adolf Hitler built Nazi Germany from
Scratch and he was going to conquer the world from scratch. By that
logic The world should be called great Germany and Adolf Hitler
should be our leader. Should he not? After all he build it from
scratch and that justifies everything. Hitler aside the argument does
not stand up to maths either. Everything that is man made has to be
made by a person. Everything has to come from somewhere and
everything takes time and effort. This is the way it is and no matter
how much one dislikes that fact it will remain so. Anyone that
possesses more wealth or material than he could have created himself
must have deprived others by the exact same amount. Hes gain is
somebodies else's loss.
The value of one hour of a persons life
in a nation can be calculated by the mean average wage. It is
calculated as follows. Add up all money earned and the total amount
of hours worked by every citizen. Divide the total amount of money
earned by the total amount of hours worked. Divide the resulting
number by the amount of citizens that did the work. This gives you
the mean average hourly rate. This is the mean value of one hour of
someone's life. This is the fair value of ones time.
If the mean average wage is $20 an hour
than this is the value of one hour of ones life. But in Capitalism
not everybody's time has the same value. Some people are only worth
$10 an hour. This means that the other $10 that he is missing out on
are being collected by somebodies else who now gets $ 30 an hour. As
one might expect there are a lot of people that only get $10 If the
owner of a large cooperation has one thousand employees and he
deprives each employee of $10 which means everybody being employed by
him gets $ 10 an hour and he gets the other $10 which is their
shortcoming from the average of $20. The owner of this corporation
has now gained 1000 times $10 which makes $10 000 an hour. The
numbers I have bean talking about so far are profit only. I am making
an example of a nation with a mean average wage of $20 an hour. The
company in my example for the sake of mathematical simplicity also
makes a mean average of $20 an hour per person. In reality there is
of course also inequality between different companies just as there
are inequality between different individuals. The owners hourly
earnings of $10 000 therefore excludes any expenses. If somebody
requires a service from this particular corporation they might have
to pay $ 30 per hour of service. $10 goes to the employee $10 Goes to
the owner and $10 are to cover other expenses e.g. facility materials
etc.. In this case it is assumed that those $10 cover 30 minutes of
time from other parties that are charging the average $20 an hour. In
reality the other parties might get deprived or try to deprive someone
else. They might also have to charge more to cover for material that
they might use but I will not include any more detail for the sake of
simplicity. The above scenario is just one example
of how one man's gain is anthers loss when it comes to uneven
distribution of wealth. In reality the wages earned can be any
number and there are many ways that one can deprive another Some
small businesses might mange to deprive their employees a lot but
might themselves get deprived by any number of larger cooperations.
Following the exact accounts of how much money goes where does not
need to be followed in order to understand the simple measure of
where you stand If $20 would be the mean average of your nation tan
you can compare your wage to that average to see whether you are
getting a fair deal. Of course one would have to keep in mind that
one nation might be depriving another nation pushing the value of
your nations Currency and wages up or down.
Some people in favour of Capitalism
will criticise socialism for supporting lacy slobs on the benefit. A
person on a benefit might collect $ 200 a week with other words he
will deprive society by then hours over the period of one week. But
what I think is far more alarming in capitalism is that a capitalist
might work 40 hours a week and makes a profit of $10 000. Lets break this down. 40 hoers are
worth $800 which means that he is deprived society of exactly $9200
or 460 man hoers over the period of one week.
This is one single man depriving
society by an amount equivalent to 46 lacy slobs on the doll. But yet those people attacking
socialism think of such a high earning capitalist as an example of
success and achievement. In reality Capitalists like this could very
well be the reason for at least some of the people on welfare
benefits because in an effort to make more money such a capitalist
would try to reduce the number of employees. On the other hand the kind of socialism
that I believe in does not encourage people to go on benefits but
rather distribute the available hoers evenly amongst everybody giving
opportunities that did not exist for people on welfare the average
working week would be shorter for everyone al corporations should be
government owned and controlled and everybody should get the same
hourly wage of $20 or whatever the mean average income is. This would
make up for any decrease in hours. And nobody would be on welfare
anymore. People have this strange illusion of
thinking that if someone is working long and hard that they are
entitled to extra money. If a capitalistic entrepreneur works 80 hoer
weeks does not mean that it is morally right that he earns $ 10 000
an hour $9200 of which comes at someone else's expense. By this logic
a labourer could work 80 hours a week and then rob a bank. We could
then say this is a hard working man he works 80 hours a week and
should therefore not be punished.
Say no to
capitalism. The more you hate capitalism the more the Kaiser will
love you.
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