[grover35]

Hopefully this is the moment we realize that capitalism is really not serving us in any meaningful way. As long as we have enough people brave enough to quit and take to the streets the working class might have a fighting chance at ending their exploitation.

[metadat]

Unfortunately only some of us have realized this, and there is no clear path forward yet. We still have a long, long way to go to achieve meaningful improvements.

[FredPret]

Capitalism is a system, this guy is just a participant. Make him famous and turn the system against him.

I’m a dyed-in-the-wool ubercapitalist, and I hate scarcity-focused, race-to-the-bottom companies and people like these. It’s a question of values and approach to life.

[ivan_gammel]

As far as I can see, one particular flavor of capitalism works quite well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy

It's not like bad things do not happen, but the system continuously checks the balance between employee and employer interests and adjusts.

[vlunkr]

One guy that works for a franchise of an increasingly irrelevant restaurant chain has a bad take in a private email conversation and you think this is the end of capitalism?

[mbostleman]

Capitalism punishes this behavior, as it did here. The market worked as we would expect and hope.

[rat9988]

No it doesn't. Your example only works because information gets leaked. And market can only absorb that much information, unless you put special regulatory bodies. And "punish" is still to be seen here.

[colinmhayes]

This isn't capitalism's fault, it's just human nature. Every economic system will have scumbags who try to exploit other people for personal gain.

[Mezzie]

Yes, and therefore governments and economics need to account for this to keep society running.

That's what governing IS.

[cardiffspaceman]

Achieving the optimum economy by allowing human nature to do its thing was supposed to be the way capitalism works. To me that would mean including scumbags, somehow the invisible hand would create paradise.

[colinmhayes]

I don't think any economic system can create paradise. Some are certainly better at optimally distributing scarce resources though.

[vkou]

Paradise is here, it's just not evenly distributed.

[daenz]

And capitalism's main advantage is that tries to account for the scumbag human nature (competition) and attempts to use that to its advantage (creating an economy that strives to be efficient). Other systems pretend like that human nature doesn't even exist, and everything will be fine if we ignore it.