• @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    That read was an interesting journey indeed. ^^

    I kinda agree with your early-on point. Wage theft has a legal definition, and profiteerig doesn’t fit that. Sometimes you need to flow with the joke, I guess.

    For a real solution, I wouldn’t just tell investors or whatever that they can’t make a profit and call it a day, but rather change the entire structure of ownership so that there is nobody left who could make a profit. The people filling the (useful) roles that were formerly filled by investors, CEOs, etc. would then get just another wage/salary. I wonder if anyone has ever thought of something like that before. 🤔

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      3 months ago

      You should check out Ursula K Leguin’s sci-fi novel The Dispossessed. It explores a society that has no concept of ownership at all, and the good and bad that comes with that. It’s really really good.

      But the whole idea that profit/private property is inherently theft is a major tenant of Marxist theory as far as I understand it, so you saying

      I wonder if anyone has ever thought of something like that before.

      Is funny because people have been trying to think of solutions for the past ~150 years haha

      Edit: behold my inability to sense irony lmaoo

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Yeah, I’m aware of Marxism. Bit of a commie myself. That question was intended to be ironic. xD

        • jwiggler
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          33 months ago

          omg lmaoooo my bad disregard that last part then

          But definitely still recommend The Dispossessed if you like sci-fi or anarchist thought experiments – it’s so good