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RE: Capitalism Isn't Corporatism

in #capitalism8 years ago (edited)

People are not property. If you are poor, you might have to work in explotative conditions.
People are not free agents,this is free market propaganda. The world has resources, and technology,and we have people who can do work. This generates wealth. Just because you own a company does not mean that you have the moral right to the profit. In a free society,such exploitation would be stopped.
You are right that certain things will always remain scarce,even in a post-scarcity society with nano-replication technology. And it is possible that we will see a limited kind of capitalism,where all basic needs are covered,and many that we now consider luxuries, and we trade attention and information.
However, freely sharing attention and information is much to be preferred.
Placing things in a value system and making profits from it devalues it.
What would you rather want,get attention because someone likes you or finds you interesting, or buy the attention?
You are misconstruing my concept of inequality. I am talking about economic inequality, and social inequality , in other words, the absence of oppression, not that everyone needs exactly the same amount of resources at all times.
Since we are heading for post-scarcity, everyone can live in luxury.
My comment about google and facebook was a sarcastic joke, but I do believe that in a anarcho-capitalist world,we might see companies in armed conflict,and probably executions of workers that protest or tries to forcibly take over the means of production.
Believing anything else is hopelessly naive.

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