• therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The problem with capitalism is that it only exists thanks to other people’s labour.

    Spoiler alert:

    ALL the money capitalists hoard is “other people’s money.” It literally belongs to the state that created it. Bill Gates “owns” as much money as I do - nada. None of the money he hoards belongs to him. It’s not “his” money - it never was.

    The hoarding of “other people’s money” is literally what makes liberal oligarchy possible - without it, the capitalist mode of production becomes impossible.

    • jtrek
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      2 months ago

      The only reason anyone owns anything is we collectively agree, or they can defend it with force.

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I thought that was the problem with automating everything aka no need for workers means no one has money to buy anything which means there’s no capital to produce anything.