But how would they buy YouTube in the first place? How would Google even be what it is today without rich shareholders pumping in money for decades? Without harvesting and selling user data?
To YouTube still. Which is now owned by all the Google employees.
Bratosch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Steve@communick.news 1 month ago
How far do you want to take this? Companies exist. They still would in a socialist economy.
Nobody is talking about a post scarcity world where money doesn’t exist, and nobody hast to work for a living.
Bratosch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who and/or what would drive the company to such a size? You think Bill Gates would put all that work in just to give away the entire company? You think Mark Zuckerberg would sit for hours and hours into the night and nonstop code Facebook, just to not own it?
Steve@communick.news 1 month ago
Yes. They would own it. So would the rest of their employees.
tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Probably not youtube, because in a truly open market with socialist rules, youtube would have fallen with its constant enshittification and be replaced with a more user/creater friendly alternative.
Steve@communick.news 1 month ago
In a truly open market with socialist rules, YouTube wouldn’t have enshitified.