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by ThrowawayR2 298 days ago
Anyone is free to create a worker-controlled, worker-owned business anytime they want. There are plenty of examples anytime the question comes up. In light of this, where is the need to abolish privately owned companies?
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Same reason we have laws against slavery and indentured servitude.
One is very much not like the other. If I create a piece of software then hire a helper to expand under a defined contract, if anything is at all like slavery, it is taking away my ownership so we could "share"