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Re:Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth ... by thriftwy on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:43AM (#15653500)
These days I don't see much production around.

It's probably somewhere in the industrial zones on the outskirts of cities, but it's not something many people do.

As a software developer I produce code. How would you exert democratic control over means of such production? Will it involve lots of tin foil?

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Re:Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth ... by danharaj on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:04AM (#15653722)
> As a software developer I produce code. How would you exert democratic control over means of such production?

Open source software is already a model that approximates such democratic production. If us developers didn't have to make a wage to survive, how would we develop software?

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Re:Explore Wealth and Income Inequality in the World Wealth ... by thriftwy on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:49AM (#15654158)
Frankly speaking, I would prefer a fair amout of income inequality to that.
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