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Cake day: June 11th, 2024
  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world•The only good billionaireEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I can totally get that perspective. From here looking at countries in Europe move in our direction makes me think that allowing a little bit of the capitalist corruption in makes your system susceptible to slowly being consumed(deregulated and welfare state gutted).

    I’m not too familiar with New Zealand politics but I’m sure they’re a hell of a lot better than ours lol.

  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world•The only good billionaireEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I feel you and I would agree on most issues. I would urge you to be skeptical of capitalism and the profit incentive and how it can cause harm even small ventures like cafes.

    To me, the ultimate problem that capitalism and the wealth concentration that it allows presents is the ability of the individuals with this concentrated wealth to use it either legally or illegally to bend the state to their will. In the states we are all too familiar with this with lobbying. Once this happens, democracy is undermined and oligarchy begins in my opinion.

  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.world•The only good billionaireEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I just responded the same idea to someone else so I apologize if I get confused between the two. But if I’m understanding you correctly, what you’re saying is this man has a billion dollars in assets but he needs them to do his work which is beneficial for people. This work is in rockets.

    I’d submit to you that he doesn’t need to privately own a billion dollars worth of assets for this. People need a lot of equipment for their jobs, but these things can be owned in common, whether that’s through a co-op or through state ownership. Collectivizing the means of production is the ethical way to go. Everyone should have an equal claim to their workplace and an equal say in what goes on there.

    The way we let people privately own companies now is more akin to monarchy than the democracy we think of as the bare minimum everywhere else. The workplace should be democracized.