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

一些精英主义的资本主义捍卫者依赖于合作者应该获得与其贡献相称的产品份额的原则。然而，这种对资本主义的防御由于进退两难而失败了。任何一个他们依赖于对贡献的理解，可以说这将反映在适当理想化的资本主义经济体中的资本-劳动力分裂，但不能作为一个合理的绩效标准；要么他们依赖于对贡献的解释是一个看似合理的绩效标准，但往往不会反映在资本主义经济中的资本-劳动力分裂上。