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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

people don’t seem to understand that the profit motive has never been the driving force of capitalism.

Is this a joke?

The M-C-M' profit motive is self-evidently the driving force. Just ask literally any member of the capitalist class.

capitalism is at it’s most base level is just private property rights and it still works exceptionally well.

Yes, and not just any kind of property, but specifically the means of production. And it does work well, but not for everyone, specifically for the bourgeoisie, who are the ones who own said private property. It doesn’t work well for the proletariat, and it works less and less well for them as private ownership continues to consolidate to a smaller and smaller circle of wealthier & more powerful billionaire oligarchs.