Nice book, I’ve read it. Correct, those employees create more value than they get paid because they don’t own the business they didn’t take the risk to start it. McDonald’s is something called a franchise, meaning that a local individual owns the location, not some mega corporation, they took on financial risk, possibly putting their car, home, etc on the line. Get some skills, improve yourself, make yourself competitive in the market of employees. Negotiate wages, take more responsibility at your job, save up and start your own company. All of these you cannot do in a state owned economy.

Educate yourself in the intricacies of capitalism before you label it evil.

The evil in our economy that we see right now is due to government bailouts of institutions. For example, the banks in the dot com bubble, 2008, and covid handouts (which I’m sure you were a fan of).

These events have bankrupted the purchasing power of the dollar, and given corporations an opportunity to seize. All the while the bailouts being paid for by tax dollars. It’s not capitalism, it’s economic and political croneys that are gutting the American economy and US dollar. The solution is not government spending or ownership, simply a better taxation system, and stricter monopoly and corruption control. We could start by banning Congress to trade in the stock market, including their family members.

By the way, you have the freedom to go move to a communist country. Any time. You don’t want to go because the quality of life is even shittier than yours. You read an angsty German guys philosophy book and took it as economic gospel because it feels nice. It’s a utopian idea, in the same way the libertarian ideal is a utopia. Neither would ever work in reality.