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Cowbee, to memes in It's a simple world view

Capitalism is fundamentally hierarchy established in property rights. Doing away with hierarchy does away with Capitalism. Unless, of course, you’re arguing for Anarcho-Communism or something.

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

What an excellent way to dodge literally everything I pointed out and feign a logical high ground. Perfectly smug and absolutely irrelevant.

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

If everyone has equal power, there’s no statist component.

Cooperative structures are not inherently more efficient, but Cooperative work structures would result in higher paid workers. The strawman about a lack of decision making in the Cooperative could easily be flipped, while the Workers are already producing, the Capitalists are figuring out how to extort their customers and workers better.

Communally owned property supports itself by virtue of being communally owned. If nobody has an individual claim to it, someone who tries would be contested by the community, hence its communal ownership.

You only have strawmen and vibes, no actual points.

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

There are numerous critical flaws of what you just said.

  1. Why would Guards support you? If you become a robber-baron, hiring muscle to protect your factories from the Workers, you have to deal with the fact that either you don’t actually control and own your factories, the mercenaries do, or accept that you have become a micro-state.
  2. What is preventing any of these micro-states from absorbing others and becoming a full state? Nothing.
  3. Why would anyone willingly work for you, unless it already reached the point where you are essentially a state? They could make more money simply by working cooperatively.

Private Property cannot maintain itself unless you have a monopoly on violence and thus a state.

Cooperatively owned property, on the other hand, supports itself and is maintained cooperatively. There are no avenues to realistically overturn it.

Cowbee, to asklemmy in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

It’s also good to not use it, if you can afford to keep it and spend normally. HSA space is extremely limited, because it’s by far the best retirement account available. FSAs are fantastic for spending, as they don’t have as many restrictions and don’t carry over year over year.

Cowbee, to asklemmy in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

You actually don’t have to spend money with an HSA, ever. You can invest it, and it rolls over. FSAs must be spent within the year you contribute, though.

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Anarcho-Capitalism cannot exist, it would cease to exist the very second it did.

Anarcho-Communism is a lofty goal, but is fully capable of existing.

That’s the fundamental difference, what you consider to be Private Property simply wouldn’t be, it would either be personal property or you wouldn’t have it. It is only through threat of violence that one can own the products of tools despite not doing the labor.

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

You cannot seriously believe in a might makes right society, can you?

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

If everyone has equal ownership, there is no "mono"poly.

Private ownership requires a monopoly on violence to exist, if you can’t defend it there are no rights.

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Yes, absolutely. How would one win over with individual ownership? One dude with a couple guns vs an entire community?

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Nah, might makes right for them, lol

Cowbee, to memes in Economic Theory is Fun tho.

Private Property cannot exist without a state. That which gives private property legitimacy is a monopoly of violence, otherwise you have a winner-takes-all might makes right system.

Collective ownership of property can be enforced via the collective itself, without a need for a governing body.

Anarchism is certainly idealistic, but Anarcho-Capitalism is pure fantasy.

Cowbee, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

It can only happen at a global scale. There are numerous answers to your question, but again, it isn’t as simple as removing all incentives. Read theory, Marx never pretends to know what Communism must look like, which is why Communists focus on achieving Socialism first, as we can very well transition to that now.

Cowbee, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

Nope, just like it doesn’t require unlimited resources and automation to get you to do your chores. However, at a societal scale, its definitely a futuristic goal, which is why Communism is only achievable after Socialism, which is similar to modern society except industry is collectively, rather than individually owned.

Cowbee, to linuxmemes in Steve Balmer quotes

People don’t get everything for free until productivity is so high that it’s practical, which comes from development. The distribution is handled by the Socialist State, typically, until it becomes vestigial and no longer necessary.

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