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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
