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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:42PM (#21328300)
How is it not, if everyone receives ownership of the company that they work for? Does that not, on the level of the society as a whole, add up to "bestowing collective ownership of private capital"?
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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by root_axis on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:28PM (#21328669)
You are misinformed about Bernie's proposal. The proposal is not "everyone receives ownership of the company they work for" or anything even remotely similar to that. The proposal is that publicly traded companies that bring in more than $100m in annual revenue must remit 2% of their stock to employees per year until employees retain a 20% share of stock ownership. "Everyone receives ownership of the company that they work for" is an absurd and false characterization.
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