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Re:The First Time America Freaked Out Over Automation by njarboe on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @12:55PM (#14454003)
Seems like capitalism today is based on "cooperative ownership of the means of production" in that all (exceptions?) current public companies (and most private ones over a certain size) do not have a single real person as majority shareholder (>50%). A few hot tech company founders have been able to push through voting share structures such that they remain in control with minority ownership (Google, Facebook, Snap). Others have a founder who is CEO for a long time and given defacto ownership control (Musk, Gates, Bezos, etc). But these cases are the exception to the rule. Maybe the problems that are occurring with our "capitalistic" system today is that it is not really capitalism at all, but a lighter, stealth form of communism.

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