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    One of the side effects of Capitalism is that it has effectively downplayed the importance of racial, social, and religious differences between people and replaced a person's value as a member of a particular belief group or sexual orientation with that person's productivity.

    In other words, it doesn't matter if a person hates Catholics, Jews, Free Masons, Seventh Day Adventists, Chinese, blacks, asexuals or whites. The only measure of an individual's value under Capitalism is whether or not they contribute to production, and how well they do so. Capitalism doesn't ask you to swear a loyalty oath, it just asks you to be productive.

    Now, you can make an argument that employing a cult of ritual cannibals or individual dog rapists might not be good for business, but this is merely a secondary effect. If those child rapists are making enough money for a business, then that business might be inclined to keep them on. Or not. A lot depends on how their presence might affect sales. And those offenders have the option of changing their behavior in order to keep playing the game, if they choose to do so.

    People do have prejudices. I'm of the opinion that the tendency to have prejudices is mostly inborn, but I could be wrong. In any case, prejudice allows us to get through the day without having to relearn gravity and so is largely a good thing, but when it interferes with the efficient working of the company, then it is not a good thing. The manager who does not promote a productive person because she reminds him of his hated mother and he prejudges that she will surely be like his mother is not doing the company a service.

    Whether this characteristic of Capitalism is good or bad is open to question, but it seems to me that judging a person on the basis of their productivity is better than condemning a person for something that they can't do anything to change. Things like the color of their skin or their grandparent's religion.
    Last edited by Adam Strange; 02-11-2021 at 01:34 AM.

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