This is how capitalism is designed, so its not surprising. It’s just incredibly stupid and morally indefensible. Capitalism is a failure of a system that never should have become the dominant system. Hundreds of years of slavery, death, and disgusting violations of human existence is all we have to show for it. None of it was worth the cost.
I assure you that “the system optimizes for the interests of large landholders” is not specific to capitalism and was a well-recognized, load-bearing feature of the systems that preceded it.
The system before was feudalism, which was just pro capitalism
Karl Marx is spinning in his grave. Eric Hobsbawm, who is also buried in the East Cemetery at Highgate, has come to join him. Malcolm McLaren is there too, but mostly because it’s something interesting to do.
