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Re:We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth by SaberTail on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:52PM (#35163630)
For centuries, people have advocated for systems where workers keep the fruits of their labors rather than have them appropriated by those with the ownership. They're called "communists" and "socialists".
Re:We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth by DeathArrow on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:37AM (#35167319)
And communism was such a massive success story with tens of millions of victims...
Re:We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth by Spivak on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:38AM (#35168140)
This is such a pointless discussion. If the economic and political atrocities that occurred under capitalism were listed out it would make the book on communism look like a pamphlet.

Shitty people doing shitty things can and will happen under every economic and political system. If you let people convince you that trying to break the cycle of worker exploitation by changing our literally feudalist corporate structure in any way is a one way ticket to the gulag then the only thing that will happen is you’ll be happier with the lot in life that’s been decided for you.

Re:We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth by corbulo on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:04PM (#35185760)
First: define capitalism

Second: list famines

Re:We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth by gooseus on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:38AM (#35167334)
Yes, history remembers well the efforts of those people, and their results.

And if you define who counts as "workers" and who the "owners" are just so, you can also add "fascist" to the list of people who advocate for a similar system (national socialists).

It's almost as if rhetoric that promises "workers" a way to take back the fruits of their labor from evil "owners" is a really great way for populist demagogues (on either side) to whip up a Revolution that installs a new groups of oligarchs as a central Party apparatus that effectively owns everything... on behalf of the Workers, of course.

Re:We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth by kevviiinn on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:57PM (#35173080)
Fascism by definition is not aligned with workers, it is aligned purely with the interests of corporations and capital owners