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capitalists: *replace workers with machines to increase profits*

capitalists: *realize that because they’re paying less wages, less money is in circulation, and that the economy requires market transactions to function*

capitalists: *reduce mechanization, thereby halting progress, or scramble to make up pointless jobs for workers to perform to earn a wage*

capitalists: *completely fine with the fact that this system forces people to perform increasingly unnecessary and demeaning work rather than using the advances of technology to free workers from labor*

capitalists: Capitalism is required for innovation