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Then we should all start our own business, right?
by tiglionabbit 7y ago
Then we should all start our own business, right?
- newswasboring 7y agoThat's the dream, isn't it? Like a network of microservices. And we must realize that a few hundred years ago that was the default (well, if you were not a slave of some description).
- dragontamer 7y agoA few hundred years ago, indentured servitude and slavery were the norm.
- newswasboring 7y agoYeah true. So I guess we just have replaced slaves with employees?
- philosopher1234 7y agoYou can go back if you like but I think being an employee suits me better ...
- eklavya 7y agoOther than the relation that both are norms, how did you come to the conclusion that they are the same things?
- newswasboring 7y agoI never said they were the same things. One thing replaced the other. I can replace my daily fruit from apples to oranges. They both serve the same purpose (filling my tum tum), doesn't mean they are the same.
- acchow 7y agoAs in the people doing work? Yes. And it is a fairer system.
- pmiller2 7y agoYep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
- EGreg 7y agoI think Adam Smith and other economists would say that if everyone was an independent businessperson with full autonomy then we’d have less exploitation and more equality. But people are willing to trade essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety (and a whole array of consumer goods they don’t need and pay high rent for status), to quote a certain modern philosopher.
- praptak 7y agoEverybody should have enough money not to have to work and live off the interest.
- Pfhreak 7y agoAlternatively, we could start more worker coops.