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| Question 186: Bring examples of people trying to use the social powers of the objects they are handling for their benefit. Are these attempts successful in the examples you bring, and if not, why not? |
| [89] Bach: Reality Boar in [88] asserts that Marx draws an incorrect conclusion about people using their social power and wealth to only benefit themselves. Boar points to the examples of the last week of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Cuban donating so generously to the relief effort. |
| The irony is that these examples only show that Marx was right. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Cuban choose to donate a fraction of their wealth at a high profile time when everyone will see what they have done, and the other 364 days of the year, they will continue to buy their large houses and expensive cars while other people have little or nothing. Boar says that one million is a lot for a person that makes as much as they do. One million is a lot for someone that does NOT make as much as they do, it is very little to people that make millions or billions. |
| Boar also states that the Marxists would have been horrified to find out that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Cuban had done such a thing. This assumes that Marx, by saying that people will try to benefit themselves, doesn't want anyone to be good or generous. On the contrary, Marxists would be overjoyed to hear that someone had donated their personal wealth to a good cause, and would wish more people would do so. |
| Question 186 asks for an example of someone using the social powers of the objects they handle to benefit themselves. The sports arena gives many examples of people taking exorbitant amounts of money using the social power of the game they play. |
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