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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That read was an interesting journey indeed. ^^

I kinda agree with your early-on point. Wage theft has a legal definition, and profiteerig doesn't fit that. Sometimes you need to flow with the joke, I guess.

For a real solution, I wouldn't just tell investors or whatever that they can't make a profit and call it a day, but rather change the entire structure of ownership so that there is nobody left who could make a profit. The people filling the (useful) roles that were formerly filled by investors, CEOs, etc. would then get just another wage/salary. I wonder if anyone has ever thought of something like that before. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You should check out Ursula K Leguin's sci-fi novel The Dispossessed. It explores a society that has no concept of ownership at all, and the good and bad that comes with that. It's really really good.

But the whole idea that profit/private property is inherently theft is a major tenant of Marxist theory as far as I understand it, so you saying

I wonder if anyone has ever thought of something like that before.

Is funny because people have been trying to think of solutions for the past ~150 years haha

Edit: behold my inability to sense irony lmaoo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm aware of Marxism. Bit of a commie myself. That question was intended to be ironic. xD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

omg lmaoooo my bad disregard that last part then

But definitely still recommend The Dispossessed if you like sci-fi or anarchist thought experiments -- it's so good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'll add it to my ever-expanding TODO list, thanks.