• DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    1 month ago

    And this is like tip of the iceberg bare minimum type shit, it’s not even suggesting workers own the means of production or anything that radical, all it is is paying employees a more appropriate share of the profits (the company is still making an obscene amount of that profit, and the employees are still under paid for their labour, it’s how the pyramid scheme we call capitalism works, but this is proof that even while continuing to roll in billions, other employers don’t have to be keeping their employees on poverty wages, they choose to).

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      1 month ago

      Why would workers own the means of production if they didn’t set up the business in the first place? It’s just a hired labour. If you hire someone to do something this doesn’t mean they should suddenly have a part of that thing.

      You can set up your own thing together with the workers and pool and borrow to fund it and then you own the means of production. It’s already possible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

      Just go and do it or join the existing one. There’s like plenty of them here. And if there isn’t at your location it’s still better to act than complain.