Gender-based wage gap
Does gender wage gap exist in the corporate tech world? Or is it purely performance based?
What about biases in appraisals, promotions, who gets a chance to lead and all?
Looking for personal insights and experiences.
Saw a college chick that was a big proponent of "smashing capitalism" and installing a marxist/communist system. It got me thinking why do people hate capitalism? First thing that's interesting is that people don't know what capitalism is. Discuss what it is, as it seems to be hotly debated on its beginning, etc.
To start, the Wikipedia page is wrong on the definition of capitalism. It describes it through the lens of Marxism and calls it an economic system.
Capitalism more so resembles a social system based on individual rights.
The economic system under capitalism that advocates for private industry and production, would be the free market economy.
Adam Smith described capitalism using the emergence of the division of labor: "Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes in some measure a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society. "
The people who understand the practicality of life, know they must develop some ability to produce something that may lead to a valuable and exchangeable surplus that can be traded on the market.
Capitalism is social and natural while the economic system must be reflected in the private and individual institutions that allow for the free exchange of goods.
Why do people hate capitalism?
It literally has capital in it. How is it a social system? That it influenced social systems across the world is but a consequence of it as is suggested by Adam smith - the emergence of commercial society due to exchange of labour.
Liberalism is the social system that you are alluding to here. Liberalism is what gave recognition to rights of individuals over societal and hereditary rights.
This led to the emergence of capitalism as it unshackled medieval mode of production were the landed/privileged benefited, to a more profit generating mode of production for whoever had capital.
Capitalism was never natural. Tribal societies that we trace our evolution to did not have it. It was only with the emergence of nation-states that profit motive came into picture.
Liberalism is what gave recognition to rights of individuals over societal and hereditary rights.
Yes, but it's important to remember how it started — giving rights to "land (inherited or claimed)/labor (slaves)/capital (generational wealth) owning" folks, while suppressing or downright excluding groups (natives/"lower-castes"/women) as they saw fit.
It’s like saying communism as had happened in USSR and China which deprived basic rights to people is how Marx deemed it. Marx did not even talk about communist state nor party. His concern has been the emancipation of man.
What you have stated was never the intent of liberalism. Liberalism did see property as a means to increase one’s liberty (Locke), it did not argue for snatching land rights of natives. In fact, Locke said property has to be acquired only by legal means and must never be snatched.
Capitalism, however, enabled the suppression of natives (Lenin). Especially with its one way free trade and the british desire to defeat other Europeans. Liberalism gets blamed for it because in a way it enabled capitalism but it’s a stretch to pin the blame of capitalism on liberalism.
Liberalism remains an ideology to realise individual as an end upon himself and not a means to an end.
And with respect to smashing capitalism- that is impossible. The only way communism will be successful is if the entire world adopts to it. It’s utopian and will likely never be achieved in modern economics systems.
Traditional systems did have communism in its earlier stages when production was only to meet the basic needs. Life has evolved beyond that at this point.
Same for all utopian systems- Plato, Gandhi’s trusteeship. They can be achieved to a small extent within the larger capitalist model but not become a system on its own.
You know the famous saying, communism sounds great in theory, but in practice it usually ends up being overthrown in an American backed coup/war/invasion.
That did not happen in ussr and china though.
In capitalism people compete In socialism people beg
Which country has the most number of homeless and on the brink of homelessness (aka a small emergency expense away from) people I wonder?
You didn't get my point, I'm speaking about mindset here, not the literal meaning
In a capitalist society people define rules and they compete with each other to gain from one another by circulating money and also sticking to the rules. This system rewards more competent ones over less competent In a socialist society, people just sit lazy and don't compete but demand(beg) for the distribution of things(wealth, resources, etc.,). This system rewards the higher voice(be it collective strength of a group or a concentrated power) rather than higher competency........unless there is dictator at top who won't tolerate incompetency. If there isn't any reward for a competent one, how come innovation flourish?
Imo primitive form of capitalism started when we were hunter gatherers, and we decided to do barter and then the system developed further with trading of goods with gold/silver coins. Capitalism is natural, socialism is aspirational. Reality shows that socialism can only be successful when built on top of capitalist system like Scandinavian countries, otherwise in pure socialism, you run out of free money to distribute. Capitalism brings unequal prosperity, but socialism brings equal misery.
Primitive society driven by capitalist motive? Tribal societies to this day don’t have much profit motive and have a collectivist mode of living. How can you say capitalism as natural and socialism as artificial?
when fruit gatherer A trades 5 apples with hunter B for a piece of meat, what do you think that is, capitalism or socialism? Or when a king rules his empire through feudal lords and by taxing agricultural output, what do you think that is closer to - capitalism or socialism? Socialism needs to be implemented from top, it's a utopian idea which came about after industrial revolution. When capitalism as a system succeeds and taxes are reallocated for socialistic goals to provide equality of opportunity, only then socialism succeeds.
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Does gender wage gap exist in the corporate tech world? Or is it purely performance based?
What about biases in appraisals, promotions, who gets a chance to lead and all?
Looking for personal insights and experiences.
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