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> I'm sorry, if you feel like you're not being paid enough, the solution is not to commit wage fraud against your employer. i'm pretty sure you did not read th
by beckman466 5y ago
> I'm sorry, if you feel like you're not being paid enough, the solution is not to commit wage fraud against your employer.
i'm pretty sure you did not read the second part of my comment as you did not engage with it's argument (that the definition of the word 'steal' is political). i don't think saying "I'm sorry" and then stating your opinion is an argument.
> There are plenty of employee-owned companies out there that would fit your ideals, people can work for them if they want that ownership. Or start their own. Otherwise, no, they don't get to own the output of their work. That's the way it is.
It's not about ideals, it's about the core logic of our current economic system: the accumulation of capital by one class.
Idealism or whatever can't do anything to fight back against coercive and alienating capitalist property relations where one class (property-owning) benefits at the expense of another class (the working class).
- jaywalk 5y agoSince you mentioned it, the reason I didn't engage with your argument about the word "steal" because I think it's frankly ridiculous and clearly not worth arguing about. We share no common ground, so we will never agree.