cocainesocialist:

“Under capitalism, value is produced collectively, but appropriated individually. In other words, the vast majority of work in our world is done by groups of people cooperating with one another, but the vast majority of the wealth created by that work is captured by shareholders as individuals. We have to teach these contradictory lessons, to share and to compete, because that’s how our economy works. We cooperate to produce wealth, but compete for a piece of the pie we’ve made.”

— Scott Hiley | The Basic Contradiction of Capitalism (via fullpraxisnow)