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Sure, the threat might be starvation or not being able to afford medical treatment instead of a leash and it's working a shitty job in retail instead of picking
by malermeister 5y ago
Sure, the threat might be starvation or not being able to afford medical treatment instead of a leash and it's working a shitty job in retail instead of picking cotton, but the core dynamic of forced value extraction through labor still exists.
It just has a few more levels of abstraction now.
- goldenchrome 5y agoSure but it’s not clear that there’s a better system readily available to us.
- malermeister 5y agoPersonally I favor worker's self-management as practiced in Yugoslavia before nationalism destroyed it. tl;dr: An economic system where every company is a worker-owned coop, the board is elected by the workers and the various coops compete in the market.