Capitalism, Ethics and the Paradoxon of Self-exploitation
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Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: A+, University of Otago (Department of Management), course: Business Policy, language: English, abstract: The driving force of capitalism is the attainment of increasing rates of surplus value. This is inevitably exploitative and demeaning of the human condition. This makes an increased awareness of ethics in business practise untenable. Discuss. The statement comprises of three arguments, or, more specifically, one argument and two consequences. They consist of the type argument if A then B and if A and B then C. In addition there is the request to discuss in the statement. Discuss could only apply to C. In this case A and B would be taken for granted. I cannot easily accept this so I apply discuss to A, B and finally C and approach each phrase separately. So I can reveal that if A and B then C is only true under prior assumptions made about A and B.Chapter A deals with A, capitalism. Here I will provide a definition of capitalism containing its characteristics and effects and arrive at the answer as to whether increasing rates of surplus value are the driving force of capitalism.Chapter B shall examine whether capitalism is inevitably exploitative and demeaning to the human condition. But before the terms exploitation, demeaning and human condition are discussed, they need to be defined. This chapter contains an analysis how capitalism and humans interact and interfere each other.Chapter C works on untenable (business) ethics. Ethics, business ethics and their significance for humans and capitalism are presented. The focus here will be on the overlapping areas of ethics with the contents of the other two chapters. The chapter concludes with conditions that fulfil the statement if A and B then C, with arguments discussed in light of the essay statement. But, actually, things are not that easy. The path of argument
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