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• Post #2681199

  @AlexanderKingsbury @drmambobob Owning stock shares is not the same as ownership of the corporation. Corporations really own themselves. https://lpeproject.org/blog/privatizing-sovereignty-socializing-property-what-economics-doesnt-teach-you-about-the-corporation/

• Post #2681198

  @AlexanderKingsbury @maddad @MikeDunnAuthor Frederick Douglass was also a slave: "The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass initially declared "now I am my own master", upon taking a paying job. However, later in life he concluded to the contrary, saying "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the oth...

• Post #2681197

  @olliestudio45 @AlexanderKingsbury So-called "free market" is a fantasy caricature that does not accurately reflect reality. https://mastodon.social/@magitweeter/111653879323307502 thread continues here: https://mastodon.social/@magitweeter/111654689724502196

• Post #2681196

  @HamonWry @timagal

• Post #2681195

  @GhostOnTheHalfShell I don't think that taxing wealth down to size will ever happen (because wealth is power and the richest people in the world will not allow it), but even if it could somehow be achieved I cannot endorse that approach because I do not accept that ends justify means (in fact I think there are only means, no "ends"). Taxation is a means that depends on many things that I fundamentally oppose. This doesn't mean I would oppose increased taxes o...

• Post #2681194

  @HakeemG

• Post #2156996

  HOW DID WE GET HERE? (a thread of threads, quotes, and links) This is a collection of writings and research concerned with how we got where we are today, which is in fact the story of what has been done *to* us, and what has been *taken from us*. By "us" we're talking about "the 99%", "workers", "wage slaves", all non-owners of private property, "the poor", unhoused people, indigenous people, even...