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In the capitalist interpretation, "seize the means of production" translates to "start your own business and out-compete your competitors". Or put another way:
by colemannugent 9y ago
In the capitalist interpretation, "seize the means of production" translates to "start your own business and out-compete your competitors". Or put another way: just own the damn robots.
"Private (real) property is ultimately rooted in the theft of the commons"
If only somehow I could capitalize on everyone who believed this nonsense. I would sell them shirts, but for them to receive them would be ownership of private property and therefore a "theft of the commons".
Can I ask what piece of technology you stole from "the commons" to write that comment? What was the brand?
- kmicklas 9y agoPrivate property and personal property are not the same thing.
- anigbrowl 9y agoI'm referring to a specific legal practice when I mention the Commons, sorry for not making that clearer. A similar method is proposed today to manage fisheries, with established actors being granted fungible fishing rights; well-intentioned as this proposal may be, it's philosophically problematic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure