• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    That change would be socialism, where the workers workers’ self-appointed representatives own the means of production, rather than it being owned privately by the shareholders.

    We’ve been down this road. We know where it ends.

    • cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      If you would stop bending my words for a moment, you would realize that I’m advocating for direct ownership by the workers, not some phony representative democracy. Any system with hierarchies of decision-making power, even supposedly self-appointed ones, will always corrupt.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        And how would the workers exercise that “direct” ownership? Workers aren’t a hive mind. There will always be hierarchies.