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If tomorrow all of amazon’s stock disappeared from the ledgers, would anything change about the company? The warehouses would still be there, drivers would stil
by kennywinker 5y ago
If tomorrow all of amazon’s stock disappeared from the ledgers, would anything change about the company? The warehouses would still be there, drivers would still do their rounds. It’d be a chaotic next board meeting, but that’s about it. Ownership contributes nothing to the equation, and demands a massive cut of what the real productive work produces. That’s why ownership is parasitic. As a general rule, why would we allow parasites? But even if you don’t want to see ownership that way, it still has undeniably and repeatedly lead to extreme concentration of wealth - which means poverty and starvation for the masses and superyachts for the few.