Yes, because it is a luxury good, an expensive sandwich can even be in more demand than a cheaper one, even if all other things stay the same such as its composition.
Well, it's not nothing...but making the ridiculously poor slightly less poor isn't something I'd call an "amazing achievement" since it's stupid easy to make them not poor.
Didn't we already try the bread and circuses thing? Capitalism is exploitative by definition, civilizations lasted longer that it has existed so how "stabilizing" it is is certainly not a given, in fact there's evidence for the exact opposite. Capitalism doesn't "restore equilibrium", it dictates it, it's authoritarian and non-merit based.
Capitalism is the private ownership of capital. That's the definition.
Capitalism is also 100% merit-based and unauthoritarian. Nobody is forcing people to use Amazon or McDonalds or Walmart. You might be confusing it with socialism, which is authoritarian as hell and has no regard for merit...
I don't think it's ethical to pay that little period, but I don't see Waffle House commercials talking about this either, so if the company isn't trying to profit off of it and the employees want to do it I'm all for it.
No, it's not. An organization can be distributed/decentralized as well as centralized. “Organization” does not specify the latter in opposition to the former.
> *as well as centralized?...sure it can, which means that it's centralized.
No, you aren't understanding. “organization” can label something that is centralized or something decentralized/distributed. Or it can be anywhere in between. “Organization” implies some structure, it doesn't imply that the structure is heirarchical/centralized, though.
> What it cannot be is completely independent.
Yes, whether centralized or distributed an organization can also be completely independent (or not, either way), which is a separate issue.
