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It's inevitable and a direct consequence of the labor system that we live in. The internet makes it worse but its not the problem of the internet, its a problem
by vfc1 7y ago
It's inevitable and a direct consequence of the labor system that we live in. The internet makes it worse but its not the problem of the internet, its a problem of the system.
In our labor system, a small number of individuals are by definition going to be payed, as employees, a small amount of the value that they add in order to make their boss wealthier.
Over time, the employees get paid a constant amount of money that they need to spend for living expenses, but the employer wealth will compound and accumulate over generations.
It's a system that comes directly from medieval serventry, designed to concentrate the wealth in the hands of the noble.
Take for example a large surface supermarket, with 100 employees making minimal wage. If those same persons would each own their small family shops and serve the same amount of customers, you would have 100 families well off making way more than minimal wage.
Serve those same customers through a supermarket, and most of the wealth will be concentrated in the hands of the supermarket owner, while the employees make only scraps.
- dorgo 7y ago>If those same persons would each own their small family shops and serve the same amount of customers Prices would increase (no economies of scale). 100 persons would have to deal with 99 problems (accounting, supply, marketing, ...) they didn't have before. And risks and competition. Most people don't want to deal with all those problems. Even if it pays better.
- vfc1 7y ago> Most people don't want to deal with all those problems. Even if it pays better. It depends, if raised on a family of shop owners with the values that you should have your own business, that would simply be seen as part of life. Those problems are not that hard, its not that hard to run a small shop. I think anyone could do it.