Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by auggierose 81 days ago
What about the people who didn't work for the one company that became the only company?

You still don't make sense, mate.

Yes, a better system would be great. Half-baked ideas only stand in its way.

1 comments

Since in my system, you cannot buy ownership of a corporate person (just like you cannot buy a natural person, for good reasons), that severely limits how such a situation could arise in the first place.

You still get paid a salary, you can still save up or invest it, it's just that money only buys you ownership according to how much work (times * skill) you put in to make that money.

Any system based on market competition in which your scenario realistically happens was probably so degenerate it would end up being replaced (whether democratically or by force). My system, AFAICT, is strictly (in the mathematical sense) better than the current implementation of capitalism, it just has extra precautions against buying power. What it boils down to is you want a perfect system while I am proposing a system that's better than the current state and you reject it based on not being perfect.

BTW a part of your comment is a condescending personal attack which doesn't add to the discussion and is against the guidelines.