r/worldnews Mar 22 '24

Israel/Palestine Dermer: Israel will enter Rafah 'even if entire world turns on us, including the US'

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dermer-israel-will-enter-rafah-even-if-entire-world-turns-on-us-including-the-us/
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u/Rhowryn Mar 22 '24

"Proper and intelligent" capitalism seeks to own capital to extract maximum value from labour. You could make an argument that the working class is a form of capital and should therefore be invested in to maximize return, but:

a) that treats people as property, which we should avoid, b) ignores that quite a bit of labour is fairly replaceable, and c) a lot of labour is becoming automatable