• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    No, because the majority of people do not live in the US.

    So the amount of influence is the same from the US and Russia and China.

    We aren’t as uninformed as this meme suggests about the concept. We know it has positives, but we also know the negatives, of which there are many.

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      10 months ago

      What negatives? Do people turn evil, or do tools stop working, if tools are owned by a collective?

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        10 months ago

        Yes. You see, if most of the profits aren’t taken from all the people making them and given to like, just a few people to keep for themselves, we’d have mass hysteria!

        I shudder to think of what the workers might get up to if they had more of the money they created, or more of a voice in their workplace. They might start doing dangerous things that benefitted themselves instead of the stonks, and that idea is just disgusting to me