Yes and that is one of the reasons I do not understand these people at all. Like I see more humanity (not goodness, like a raw understandable human essence) in a guy like Genghis Khan than a guy like Bezos. Like at least the blood of the conqueror runs hot. The modern billionaire have ice water in their veins. Pure death camp commandant vibes.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genghis Khan's desires were ultimately subject to phsyical constraints and diminishing returns but capitalism removes natural limits because accumulation can be infinite

Weber paraphrases Marx as appreciating that “the limits to the exploitation of the feudal serf were determined by the walls of the stomach of the feudal lord.” Under capitalism, on the other hand, we have profit-oriented commodity production. This means that neither “stomach walls” nor any other kind of natural limit impose themselves: accumulation can be infinite, and since everything is tradeable with everything else, the capitalist not only can but must (in order to compete) accumulate without limit.

from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Very true. Which is why I sometimes think about how it's not really "greed" that capitalists possess. We need a new word to correctly describe the phenomenon.

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