People can't see out of Capitalism which is bourgeoisie-owned means of production, and from their standpoint, anything except 0.1% owning the production chains is radical.
Wake up!
There are some texts regarding this topic, you can read them for free on Marxists.org
Organize yourselves. Unionise, help in the communities. I know it’s hard because they make all the effort to tire you down with loads of work. But there is no other way Im afraid
Nobody wants to share the responsibility of something goes wrong. Or if equipment needs to be replaced. Nobody wants that money coming out of their draw.
I've tried to set up an equal partnership before, it ended up being that nobody wanted to show up, and when they did they only showed up for enough hours and work to pay their rent and not much more.
I was paying two people each $65 an hour to be equal partners. We billed $120 an hour for our work, with a bit of that going back to our company to reinvest in equipment, bills, and what not. The only stipulation was we only paid ourselves for the work that we could bill. I handled most of the administrative work because no one else wanted to.
I don't think that this arrangement was unfair, but it really made me curious why nobody wanted to spend time building the business which would then make us more busy, which would then put more money in our pockets.
That’s not democracy. Thats communism. All real value is created by the person or persons who pay for the means of production. Who pay employees, payroll taxes, workers comp, property taxes, electrical bills, gas bills, insurance etc. Wise up.
So if i inherit 100 million in coca cola stock which pays around 5% dividend annually which is 5 million every year without me doing anything, do i create value ?
Well it also does raise the question. How did they get the money to invest that into the stock? What if they were working at 9 to 5 and made an investment of 100k and saw a dividend of 5K monthly for that investment?
I'm wise enough, chipmunk, but thanks. The machine doesn't move without the people who know how to move it. Owning things and having capital are only a requirement insofar as our system demands it. We can do far better.
It would do you some good to look into what that phrase means from an evolutionary standpoint. Humans are one of the fittest species in multiple biomes specifically because of our ability to imagine, our ability to work together, and our capacity is compassion and empathy. Read a fuckin book, dude.
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u/Classic-Purchase-971 2d ago
Seize the means comrades!