• CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I’m proud of you for asking a difficult question that you won’t get a satisfying answer to.

    Its almost like asking “why doesnt everyone share cars?” You probably aren’t using one all the time, they’re expensive to maintain, why not distribute the load to society and just have fleets of cars you borrow whenever you need one? Like a vehicle library.

    Some people will love this idea, it would work very well for them. Some people will hate this idea and rail about how its the death of freedom and personal choice. And some will very rightly wonder “why are we talking about cars? Trains solve this problem 1000x better!”

    Privately owned business is a problem, and a major component of the problem is that petite bourgeoisie small business owners believe they’re part of the broader “business class” which doesn’t exist. They’re exploited smallholders who serve the interests of the truly rich and powerful by ideologically aligning with them against workers, whom they universally believe are too stupid, selfish, and myopic to properly make decisions for themselves or anyone else.

  • Maiq@lemy.lol
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    5 months ago

    Capitalism is antithetical to democracy. Capitalism left unchecked will eventually lead to fascism.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Depending on who you ask, Capitalist countries aren’t truly democratic because of this, and Capital’s influence on government.

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    5 months ago

    Because as of yet the means of production aren’t public property. So the people who own them get to decide the structure of production and they decided we don’t get a say in how they are used.

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    5 months ago

    Why would you expect them to be?

    If my family starts a restaurant and hires additional workers to, for example, help clean, bus tables, wait tables, and so on, I think it would be kinda weird to share the decision making between all employees. It makes more sense for employee owned corpos, but most small businesses have an owner or owners whose main job is steering the business.