• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    In a healthy economy profits are used to expand businesses improve capital and for R&D.

    Yeah we’re in a phase with robber barons right now where that isn’t always the case. I always wonder, was the last time there were robber barons also late stage capitalism? Was the Great Depression late stage capitalism? Have we been in late stage capitalism for over a century now?