Watever , its ridiculous how someoncr can have OVER 200.000.000.000 USD , and people still dont Bet an Eye.
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This is the true form of capitalism being revealed.
Look at mega-billionaires like Elon Musk: One man has more individual wealth than some entire countries. He likely has more wealth than the poorest 1 billion people of our planet.
People like Elon musk can purchase entire 40-story buildings, mansions, private jets, super yachts as easily as buying a toy, meanwhile there are Billions of people who can’t even afford to eat a proper meal everyday and are on the brink of a premature death due to various causes (disease/illness, starvation etc), as a result of living in prolonged poverty.
We are brainwashed by the education systems in our capitalist societies that communism is evil and that capitalism is the most “fair” system that exists, when ironically capitalism is a system of immense inequality, unfairness and injustice.
In a world of limited resources, there is no benefit without cost, there is no loss without gain.
For an individual like Elon Musk to gain significant wealth, he could only achieve this by incurring a significant loss to the individuals/organizations that he is involved with in terms of business transactions (mainly customers and employees, government etc).
The first way for these mega-corporations to make money is obvious. Let’s say the TOTAL expenses incurred in the production, distribution and sale of each iPhone = $100. If we assume that a 100% profit margin (when your income is twice the size of your investment) is a fair level of profit for any individual/organisation, then each phone should be sold for $200 ($100 to cover all expenses and $100 profit). Instead of selling for a fair price of $200, these companies sell each phone for $1000, So if Steve Jobs sold 1 million iPhones every year and made an extra $800 per iPhone (on average, by selling them for $1000 when their real value would be close to $200), he can make an extra $800per phone x 1million phones sold worldwide per year = $800 million ADDITIONAL income every year for the Apple corporation.
As you can see, one of the main ways they make money is by overpricing of the products that they sell to society, selling those goods/services at a much higher price than the actual value of those goods/services, making profit by overcharging their customers and ripping them off.
The other main way is by cutting employee costs. For example, let’s say the fair wage for an Amazon worker is $25 an hour. Jess bezos will pay each worker $20 an hour instead. If there are 100000 Amazon workers (around the world) and they each work 1600 hours a year (40 hours a week for 40 working weeks), then Jeff bezos can “earn” $5 x 100000 workers x 1600 hours per year = $800 million ADDITIONAL income for the Amazon corporation per year, as a result of underpaying each employee by $5 per hour.
They make even more money through tax evasion, (keeping their money in offshore accounts for example) and they take part in money laundering to turn their “black money” (cash which they earned from business transactions which are unrecorded in the accounting system), into “white money”, which is money that has been shown in the accounting and banking system as a fair and legal economic transaction, (which is achieved through manipulation of certain documents and undercover cash transactions).
It’s true, These mega billion corporations are getting rich because they provide something of value to society
But they are also getting rich by depriving society of value (through tax evasion), robbing their customers (by overpricing) and employees (by underpaying).
We live in a world where most people are completely brainwashed into thinking that rich people are all honest and got rich by virtue of hard-work alone (and being a good, moral, law abiding citizen), and that their wealth and riches had nothing to do with cheating and manipulating others for their selfish gain.
They blindly fell for the illusion of the “American Dream”, they fell for the illusion of an equal, fair and just society in which everybody is just a “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” and that everybody can become successful at the same time (when In reality, only a “minority” can become successful on the back of the failures of the “majority”).
They are observing blatant problems in the system such as the existence of mega-billionaires while billions of people die of poverty, they are seeing the ever increasing divide between the upper and lower class; between the rich and the poor.
And yet they will still lie to themselves and cope by thinking that everything is fair and equal in an economically capitalist society, even when they find their own existence reduced to serving no purpose other than being “consumers” and “workers” in the system, existing to simply consume resources and be exploited for their human labour, while the “producers” and “employers” of the system live lives of luxury and comfort funded by the consumer/worker, through unfair and unjust wealth transfers (from the slave class to the ruling class) facilitated and enabled by capitalism.
