how should the world’s economy develop? what companies should be developed? how should the profit be distributed? should it be illegal for companies to make a profit at all?

(note that i think that it is generally unavoidable that some companies make some profit, the grey area on the image of the supply-demand diagram (or rather quantity-price diagram) is the profit, and that would only be zero if all companies have exactly the same production costs per unit.)

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    19 days ago

    But how. You’re just saying things. Slogans don’t make things true.

    Do you realize all it takes to make a corporation is 800 dollars in the United States?

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      19 days ago

      Nothing I said is a slogan. It’s an analysis of the dynamics of a corporation. Additionally, what bearing does the cost of starting a business have on this conversation?

      Now that that’s out of the way,

      But how

      Good question. Think about the company you work for. What would happen if you suggested a good idea to your boss, but they disagreed? What inherent right gives their opinion more importance? Why should $800 be the deciding factor on who carries all the power in a workplace?

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        19 days ago

        What does that have to do with incorporation? I’ll save you some time since you’re wasting mine, absolutely nothing, that is workplace bullshit.

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            19 days ago

            Okay how basic do you need me to dumb this down. It is not the business structure you are complaining about. It is the fact that you have to work.

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              19 days ago

              How about you don’t try to speak for me instead? My problem is with capitalism. Corporations are run by people. Those people are capitalists. Under capitalism, capitalists have all the power and extract their wealth from workers through exploitation. Corporations are the conduit for that exploitation.

              Instead of trying to “dumb things down”, why don’t you make a salient point instead?

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                18 days ago

                It’s almost like you haven heard of partnerships and sole proprietorships and the dozens of other business structures but instead whine corporation corporation corporation. You sound like a child.

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                  18 days ago

                  The business structure doesn’t fucking matter. I focus on corporations because a vast majority of the people in the US work for corporations. Workers do the work, and capitalists use the structure of the business to isolate workers from the surplus value of their labor.