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But they don't call it gambling, they call it venture capital investing.
"I'm not a greedy fuck, I'm exercising rational self-interest "
"I'm not a practicing sociopath, It's just business."
"I'm not firing the workers who made my business successful in the first place to pocket even more money faster, I'm curtailing redundancies to maximize efficiency."
"I'm not exploiting human being's labor solely to benefit myself beyond all reason, capitalism is voluntary and they can die in any gutter they choose to instead, I'm a benevolent job creator."
We're living an Orwellian nightmare, and most don't even realize it. The reason the poor don't just start their own cooperatives is because the central purpose of capitalism is to keep them perpetuity separated from the capital means to do so, and it works.
My mom used to say: it's not gambling if the state covers your loses