So stockholders profit from staking capital…not providing work?
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Exactly. In fiat capitalism, capital earns yield , labor earns leftovers. Stockholders get richer doing nothing, because the system inflates assets, not wages. Staking capital is rewarded. Providing value isn’t. That’s not capitalism, that’s rent-seeking at fiat scale.
So, what is capitalism? Are we not using the tenets outlined by Adam Smith?