Myth: Capitalism is the only system that provides a motivation for productive activity.

[ghiisga]

Pretty bad. You proceed to change the subject of your own post within 30 seconds. I thought you were going to enlighten us as to how capitalism isn't the only way to motivate productivity. Instead you just start whining again about how some people make more money than others.

[Beingism]

@ghiisga It's an interesting fact that when someone disagrees strongly with another person, a cognitive bias literally prevents them from understanding the relevance of their criticism, and can in fact cause them to describe criticisms as "whining" when they would not feel this way were the criticism consistent with their own beliefs.

[ghiisga]

@Beingism Nonetheless, you ARE talking about how some people have more money than others, rather than making an argument to support your point.

[Beingism]

@ghiisga Fair enough. The connection could be more explicitly drawn here in such a way that would make the argument clearer.

[GoingGoingGalt]

People don't need to feel they should be earning millions, just that in order to get what they want and need, they have to create goods and services others want to buy. In other words, in order to consume, they must first produce

[Beingism]

@GoingGoingGalt We agree that any effective system motivates people to produce things that are useful to people, and that markets are part of good solution for doing this.