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A cartoon depicts a chasm with a rope bridge, once connecting both sides, cut and hanging from the side of the cliff, sabotaged by a suit standing on the well forested right side beside a spool of rope and holding a saw. The left side of the chasm is a wasteland of sawn tree stumps. There’s a sign that reads “Please return saw and rope when done”. An empty box sits beneath the sign. The suit calls out to a person in the wasteland on the left side of the chasm “BUILD YOUR OWN DAMN BRIDGE LIKE I DID!” The person in the wasteland replies “WITH WHAT?! “
Caption: Capitalism at its finest
h/t to @dgar@aus.social
This incorrectly depicts that the capitalist built his own bridge.
Yeah, the left side of the chasm should be full of all of the workers who built the bridge.
A capitalist would keep the bridge and charge people for crossing.
Except when profit no longer rises by double digit percentages every year, then they cut the bridge.
The bridge is not a literal toll road but a metaphor for economic mobility.
The capitalist has found opportunities to improve his his wealth and has now created conditions where others are barred from same opportunities.
That’s the most efficient use of capital though. Everyone building their own bridge is stupid.
