What use is there of shareholders, lenders, ceos, and finaciers?
Why are they absolute when it comes to shutting down production, manipulating the MOP, and calling the shots?
What is the empirical evidence of their genius or their ability that… If they were too disappear; the whole of society would be left confused, blind, and inert?
I know we all say the truth that they really are just useless parasites. But genuinely more and more; the capitalist class is looking just as vestigial as royalty and aristocrats.
What is the point of them? Cause there MUST BE at least some material benefit to them at least a little… Right?
The only thing I can think of is that boards of directors seeves as a working model of what a high ranking vanguard may look like with all the trappings of material conditions and proletarian class based ideogly being the motive of success instead of profits.
Why does anyone tolerate this arraingment?
As coderade said, there is plenty of motivation and benefit, just to themselves and their own class interests.
I can’t really provide a great answer to the middle questions as my answer would pretty much be the same as what you already acknowledged; they’re parasites that have simply been born into wealth or manipulated it for such a long period of time/luckily enough to become the lords they are.
Why I think people tolerate this arrangement:
Lack of education on the topic - I think that many relatively privileged individuals (such as the middle class or petty bourgeois) have never been motivated to study the inequalities and atrocities our system produces due to their material conditions being good enough. What is there to contest when the system works for you? On the other hand, material conditions being poor enough can also be a factor in not finding education on the topic. Focusing on working all the time and where your next meal will come from is much more important to a desperate person than reading theory or spending time analyzing why things the way they are. This is not to say they are stupid or can’t understand it, they simply don’t have the permission to under capitalism.
Propaganda - While I don’t subscribe to the notion that propaganda is the sole reason people fall for capitalism, I would be insane to deny its influence. The constant cultural push that we live in a meritocracy, that those who have wealth earned it fair and square, that you too have a chance to make it one day, etc. (all nonsense of course), sucks in a good deal of the public and occupies our minds even subconsciously if we’re not careful.
That is all I’ve got. I could be missing the mark entirely, let me know what you guys think