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The laid off workers also suffer the loss, typically.
Furthermore, I don't think "he gambled" compellingly makes this system fair or good.
Or benefits when they got employed. Point is, that you aren't rising much with just working. You earn your wage whether the owner did right or wrong decision. Unlike them you don't have to bear the risk of losing your savings
The owner also gets a wage and benefits while the process is running.
And much of the time, they're spending VC money. Minimal personal risk.
And even so, that doesn't justify the owner keeping almost all of the proceeds. I don't care if they put their life savings into it. Labor built it.
Wage paid out of your own money to youself isn't a benefit.
VC funding.
Also why are you so invested in defending capitalists?
VC funding isn't free money. Usually you have to have alredy prospering business for anyone to even talk with you. Companies like WeWork or more recently AI companies are extremely rare exception.
Why not?
lol. Many people get funding for their companies because of their connections. Zoom famously got funding even though the investors thought it was stupid to try to address what they saw as a solved problem, but he was their friend so they gave him a few million dollars.
The last business I worked for started with his daddy's money, which (surprise) came from previous capitalist exploits. The first one was similar.
Capitalists have done incalculable harm to our environment, society, and individuals. They don't need your defense. They have almost all the money and power.
What you don't see are all the cases of business failing resulting in total loss of capital. What you see, you see because it worked out. But for every single startup that survived are 5-10 that don't.
First, generalization like that caused incomprehensible harm to many societies. This sort of generalization was foundation of Fascism, then Nazism, and then Holocaust.
Second, while imperfect, that capitalist system works. I've seen no other system that would reconcile the incentives of multiple egoistic parties. None. Every utopian design fails miserably when inevitably some people turn to be assholes.
Failing businesses is irrelevant to the argument that labor is entitled to a fair share of what it creates.
Your analogy to generalizations and an old timey Godwin's law is laughable.
The capitalist system "works" at tremendous cost to many people. Many such systems work. Chattel slavery would "work".
And you haven't clarified why you're so eager to defend this system. Are you a capitalist? Do you employ people while keeping the bulk of the profits?
I don't think I can take you seriously