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“Including workers in ownership and governance is necessary to lessen the hold on corporate wealth by affluent white families.” Why should this be a goal? Is t
by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
“Including workers in ownership and governance is necessary to lessen the hold on corporate wealth by affluent white families.”
Why should this be a goal? Is there something wrong with affluent people, or white people, or affluent white people?
- germinalphrase 7y agoExtreme wealth inequality has historically led to social instability, so there’s that.
- cat199 7y agonone of this speaks to the 'problem' as it relates to race manifested in 'white ownership'
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoThere's something wrong with capitalism, and radlib journalists are somehow getting dragged all the way into advocating worker ownership without actually realizing it's about the capitalism, not secretly about race.
- applecakes24 7y agoIdeology is a hell of a drug. Most of the ruling class and elites still believe There Is No Alternative, so this is what we get.
- eli_gottlieb 7y agoSo the ruling class simultaneously believe that There Is No Alternative, but also that giving workers (partial) control of the means of production is a good way to Smash The Patriarchy?
- dcow 7y agoI hear you. I took the point as more of a, "if we want to realize more diversification of wealth and a more representative distribution, ..." I normally pick on stuff like this too but I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt and not assume they're racist because the article is so well written.
- JohnFen 7y agoIn US society, wealth is power. When there is a great disparity in wealth, there is an equally great disparity in power. It's that power disparity that is a serious problem, not the wealth as such.
- DATACOMMANDER 7y agoBut again: why is it bad if white people are in power? What’s wrong with white people?
- JohnFen 7y agoI didn't take the line as meaning what you're taking it as meaning. I took it as as a recognition of the makeup of the traditional power structure. It did seem a bit on the pandering side, though.