>>723782706
"Capital" and "money" are just the "physical shorthand" for "value/worth".
Before currency, if you wanted tools as a wheat farmer, you'd trade your wheat with the blacksmith, and if the blacksmith didn't want wheat, you'd trade the wheat with a miller, then trade around until you get something the blacksmith wants.
Money just takes out all the guesswork. You're a valuable worker that makes something people need badly, so you get more money. You're a part-time worker for a farm that grows some weird apple breed people don't like much and doesn't sell well, so you don't get much money.
Now, Capitalism at its heart means "you can buy and sell whatever you want with whoever you want (assuming laws don't restrict this too much) and spend your money however you want. If you don't like what they're selling, you can buy something else."
In theory, people would stop being stupid and stop buying slop, subscribing to slop, and eating slop so that companies that make good shit would get the money while all the scammy junk dealers would dry out and wither away (or git gud and make their shit more competitive), but most people are NPCs and just buy shit that's familiar.
It's why if you ask what someone's favorite soda is, they always 100% say either a Coke or Pepsi brand, and it's why everyone's subbed to 30 different streaming services while they wonder why the fuck they're so broke, or why everyone upgrades to a "free" new phone and doesn't switch when every new phone ends up with a 4-hour battery life and a $100/mo phone bill per person.
God I fuckin' wish people would stop buying slop or supporting slop.
>Switch 2 comes out with one (1) game
>people flock to the system in droves and buy up the game en masse
>the people that hate the game just get mad that they spent $1k on the whole thing
>they didn't even once stop to ask if this was worth it or if the game's any good, they just bought it because ???, like it's just an impulse, NEW THING GOOD and all that
