I disagree with you that this is a “failure” as I think it leverages what is typically human
Requiring exploitation is a failure. Even capitalists tend to admit this, so I wouldn’t try to hang onto this point. The real position capitalists tend to take here is that “the ends justify the means”, not that the means themselves are inherently justified, because they’re obviously not. If exploitation of workers and alienation of labor were done in isolation, without any other considerations, they’d be obviously wrong to anyone.
The argument is what you laid out in your other responses, so I’d stick to that. Not that exploitation is inherently justified because it’s human nature. First of all, human nature is complex, trying to tie it down to something as simple as “exploitation through competition” is just simply reductive, but furthermore even if you could reduce human nature to that statement, it’s still committing a naturalistic fallacy (it’s not right just because it’s natural).
Requiring exploitation is a failure. Even capitalists tend to admit this, so I wouldn’t try to hang onto this point. The real position capitalists tend to take here is that “the ends justify the means”, not that the means themselves are inherently justified, because they’re obviously not. If exploitation of workers and alienation of labor were done in isolation, without any other considerations, they’d be obviously wrong to anyone.
The argument is what you laid out in your other responses, so I’d stick to that. Not that exploitation is inherently justified because it’s human nature. First of all, human nature is complex, trying to tie it down to something as simple as “exploitation through competition” is just simply reductive, but furthermore even if you could reduce human nature to that statement, it’s still committing a naturalistic fallacy (it’s not right just because it’s natural).