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ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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What's the Pro With Profit?

The idea that you're adding no productive value as a manager rather than a capitalist, it's absolutely absurd. All it does is indicate that you either know nothing whatsoever about how an actual business works or you refuse to know anything about how anactual business works. So then the next problem is the criticism of profit. It's like, well, what's wrong with profit? Exactly? At what's the pro with profit? Well, the idea from the marks perspective was that profit was theft. No, but profit, well, can be theft, because crooked people can run companies. And so sometimes profit is theft,. But that certainly doesn't mean that it's always theft. What it means

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