Post #35089
2025-12-06 14:25 UTC
The concept of a “corrupt industry” doesn’t really make sense.
Corruption only works in non-profit/political/governmental contexts. It’s when you have a job that requires you to value some specific higher goal more than your own personal benefit.
The whole purpose and the higher goal of an industry, same as capitalism in general is personal benefit. A capitalist cannot be corrupt. Or to put it differently: The thing that would make e.g. a public servant corrupt is the modus operandi of capitalism.
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@madcaesar@lemmy.world 2025-12-07 13:27
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@CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2025-12-07 15:23
A capitalist cannot be corrupt. Alex, I’ll take stupid things said on the internet for 800.
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@Atropos@lemmy.world 2025-12-07 19:10
I think I get what you’re saying - when we say corrupt, we mean someone is manipulating something for personal gain and otherwise would have a different purpose. Capitalism is just for personal gain. Therefore, capitalism cannot be corrupted by manipulation for personal gain, because that’s it’s true purpose. TLDR: saying capitalism is corrupt is a tautology. Did I rephrase your point correctly?