Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months agoFor those thousands of year people lived in extreme poverty, because “just making stuff yourself” is actually extremely inefficient. There’s a reason industries started to centralize in the first place - the scale effect is huge, and we can’t expect to beat well-coordinated, cebtralized entities by just “doing stuff for ourselves”.
We need to organize and unite, but as I said, in a capitalist competition, unless you accrue capital bigger than the corporations (which is, well, problematic), you’ll just die to a price war (unless you convince everyone to go starve).
The only way is to change the system, to put already existing production capabilities to serve general population. This means strikes. This means protests. This means overthrowing the government if need be.
We cannot move further in an existing frame, and “just believing your dream” won’t change objective economic issues discussed in every economy 101.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Making stuff ourselves and breaking free of the corporate vice grip is the only way we can make doing that viable.
Unless you thought corporations won’t just stop producing until the people surrender.
Allero@lemmy.today 10 months ago
The only way is to capture the means of production - they’re only owned by corporations because some legal papers say so.
Corporations can and constantly do kill independent initiatives. It’s actually super easy, and doesn’t require anything but big cash reserves allowing them to wage price wars.
Besides, it is simply impractical to reinvent existing economy, and it will get to the same point over time. We can skip this and move directly into the factories that are already built.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
That’s impossible because it will require bloodshes in which millions of people will die, whereas a non-profit cooperative effort can provide people goods for free, especially when fully automated. And corporations can’t beat free.
You might want a war but the rest of us don’t, and we can solve our problems through peaceful means.