Some meritocratic defenders of capitalism rely on the principle that cooperators should receive a share of the product commensurate with their contribution. However, such defences of capitalism fail due to a dilemma. Either they rely on an understanding of contribution that arguably will be reflected by the capital-labour split in suitably idealized capitalist economies, but cannot serve as a plausible standard of merit; or they rely on an interpretation of contribution that is a plausible standard of merit, but which won’t tend to be reflected by the capital-labour split in capitalist economies.

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功绩原则与资本劳动分工

一些资本主义的精英保护者依赖于这样一个原则，即合作者应获得与其贡献相称的产品份额。但是，由于陷入困境，这种对资本主义的辩护失败了。他们要么依靠对贡献的理解，而这种理解可以说是通过在适当理想化的资本主义经济体中的资本劳动分工反映出来的，但不能作为合理的绩效标准；或者他们依赖对贡献的解释，这是一种合理的绩效标准，但不会被资本主义经济中的资本劳动分工所反映。