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"If they could chop your labor-power from your flesh, from your family, from your community, and expropriate it as their own, the owners would." That sounds li
by fixermark 11y ago
"If they could chop your labor-power from your flesh, from your family, from your community, and expropriate it as their own, the owners would."
That sounds like "My work gets done while I stay home with my family and community," and that would be awesome.
It's the dream that makes me get up and go write code every day!
- danharaj 11y agoThey won't pay you for it. Remember, states like England passed laws expropriating land titles from yeomen in order to put it into the hands of bourgeois property holders. If they could take your labor, they would and if they could take it without paying you, they would. They have. They will.
- fixermark 11y agoThey don't need to pay me for it. If they've taken it without diminishing me, they're free to go about their business and I'm free to spend time with my family, living off the bounty of a richer society. (Your original description sounds an awful lot like the goal of open source, is what I'm saying. The infinite replicability and liquid scalability of software makes it hard to apply industrial-age metaphors to it ;) ).
- danharaj 11y agoOh, I see what you're getting at. What I was getting at, though, is that you wouldn't live off of the bounty of that society. Only owners of capital get to live off the bounty of their capital. Everyone else has to sell themselves to capital. If they don't need you though, why would they bother? They would just throw you away. Capitalism is a hell of a drug.
- norea-armozel 11y agoOr it could mean your brain gets leashed in such a way that you're not aware of your servitude all the while you don't get paid a dime for said servitude.