Personally, I do not think capitalism, equality and social justice are compatible.
For one, the main goal of companies is to maximize profits. If equality was compatible with capitalism, there would be no price differences and companies would not care about maximizing their profits.
On the social justice side, capitalism definitely is not compatible with social justice because companies will pay the lowest wages possible, and have the worst working environments in order to make the most profit on the product they are selling. Take Apple for example (nothing against Apple, I am actually writing this blog on a MacBook and have an iPhone…). The working conditions of this company is no secret, it can be read all over the news. Yet their computers start at $1,000 and their phones at $600 (rough estimate on both). But yet the people working to assemble these phones and computers are barely making a living wage and are working awful 18+ hour days, with no vacation, benefits, breaks and half the time they don't even go home at night to see their families. At the end of the day it is all about the profit for the company and if they can pay low labor wages and use outside resources to get these lower costs which increase profits then they will.
I agree completely with you I don't think capitalism is compatible with equality and social justice. i think its an interesting idea when it comes to capitalism and equality. On one hand it could be argued that capitalism and equality are compatible if you view equality and equal opportunity. I find this false because no two people will be exactly alike, even twins will have different experiences, meaning there will be no true point of equal opportunity. Now on the other hand you could say equality of outcomes, but thats equally absurd, since that it essentially communism which is no longer capitalism. Now with regards I personally believe that you hit the nail on the head. Companies in general, make millions of dollars, yet feel the need to charge lowest possible wage simple because they want to "save" an extra million dollars. In my mind, that is just asinine, and quite greedy. Yet, that is the system of capitalism that we liv ein today.
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