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by golergka 3357 days ago
Implying that skillfully faciliating and organizing other's labour isn't work? Well, early on, soviet government and their 1918 predeccessors thought the same. They ended up with a lot of 'liberated' workers and farmers, and no managers and business owners.

Strangely, they had to restore capitalist system and then to invite foreign specialists and managers to make the industry even a little bit operational. Turns out, there isn't much you can do with dumb labour alone.
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branchless 3357 days ago
It is work but workers are not in a position to bargain for their value added. Bezos keeps it.

We should tax land not income and stop forcing people to under-sell their labour.

Spare me the "Russia" extreme example. This isn't quantitative, we can dislike that extreme and also the extreme celebrated by the USA which fails so many.

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golergka 3356 days ago
You're saying that USA fails many as if it's a problem. Which implies that in your opinion, no one in a state should fail. Why?
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