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gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks agoseize
in other words, steal. i’m actually fine with that if it’s for the greater good. the question is: would it work? do you have any idea how to run a company on that scale? there’s a whole lot of companies that have business connections all around the world. what happens to those? can you handle these connections? what if other companies think that you’re not trustworthy anymore and refuse to do business with you? how do you handle these cases?
also what about money? just that the company is now held by workers does not somehow suddenly make it have much more money. especially grocery stores maybe have 3% profit margins, that means, even if no CEO siphons off wealth, the company’s ability to spend money increases by maybe 3%, so wages could go up 3%. just to inform you, about what’s realistic here. it’s not as if you’re suddenly having a 3x wage increase.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Not quite. “Steal” would imply that the people you’re taking it from have a legitimate claim of ownership over it.
Some of us do. And maybe it doesn’t need to be such a large scale in the first place.
Seize them too.
What about money? If we have the labor, the tools, the farms, and the factories … what do we need money for?
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
i think you’re unreasonably assuming here that a revolution would happen everywhere on the planet at the same time. realistically, that’s not the case. you start with one place, then another, etc. and in the meantime you have exactly the problems that i cited. how to interact with other entities, etc?