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by aktschually 1942 days ago
If you are unhappy with the terms or products of a company, you are free to shop or work elsewhere. That is the difference. "Capture of surplus" is hate speech - without those companies, there would be no surplus to begin with, that anybody could capture.

If you believe those companies will capture so much surplus, you could also buy some of their stock and participate.
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andrepd 1942 days ago
The things you read I swear.

> If you are unhappy with the terms or products of a company, you are free to shop or work elsewhere.

If you don't work you starve, or at the very least lose your house, car, maybe even your kids. There is no "freedom" of choice, and this is painfully obvious to anybody who is not stuck neck-deep in dogmatic ideology.

> If you believe those companies will capture so much surplus, you could also buy some of their stock and participate.

Sure, let me just get a small loan of 300 mil a month to build my competitor to Uber.

If you're not independently wealthy you probably cannot even get 100k of credit to open a restaurant or a similar small business. Again, that access to capital (nevermind to education, connections, etc) is profoundly unequal, and thus that "just start your own business" is am absurd statement, is also obvious to anyone who isn't blinded by ideology.

> "Capture of surplus" is hate speech

Ahahahaha

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htnsao 1942 days ago
Where there's a will, there's a way. Have you checked out crowdfunding these days? It's probably never been easier.
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krageon 1942 days ago
> you are free

This argument is made often and is patently in bad faith. You understand and I hope your readers understand there is a power disparity and a prevalent culture that has a certain effect on your ability to "be free" (of what? To go elsewhere and have the same shit done to you? To have your family go hungry because some HR shithead blackballed you?).

On a personal level I would ask you to stop actively trying to make the world worse by parroting capitalist propaganda built specifically to disempower workers.

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Bakary 1942 days ago
Could you explain a bit more why it ought to be classified as hate speech?
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