An owner/operator does not own a share of a large corporation. The idea of the workers controlling the means of production is that the workers collectively own the company, not that each worker owns their own dump truck.
As for most people not wanting that, I wonder if that would be true if they understood it meant that they got a share of the profits on top of their regular paycheck?
I think it’s more like, imagine if all the shares of Amazon were confiscated from Bezos and his main henchmen and his original remaining backers, and then those shares were equally redistributed to Amazon employees and contractors. I don’t think the workers would disagree with that move.
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Because very few workers possess class conciousness due to decades of capitalist propaganda.
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Investment Capital should not be a prerequisite for workers to own their means of production.
I just think production machinery should be properly lubricated. You types always talk about it seizing.
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So they should just be made responsible for tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment because they worked there for a week.
Yes workplaces should be a democracy, not the dictatorships that they currently are.
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Nobody said anything like that. Keep straw-manning I guess?
And yet the C-level doesn’t mind being paid in shares.
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Honestly, every one who has talked to an owner operator can tell how much it sucks.
An owner/operator does not own a share of a large corporation. The idea of the workers controlling the means of production is that the workers collectively own the company, not that each worker owns their own dump truck.
As for most people not wanting that, I wonder if that would be true if they understood it meant that they got a share of the profits on top of their regular paycheck?
I think it’s more like, imagine if all the shares of Amazon were confiscated from Bezos and his main henchmen and his original remaining backers, and then those shares were equally redistributed to Amazon employees and contractors. I don’t think the workers would disagree with that move.
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