• Twoafros@lemmy.world
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    Are there movements in the US or globally to force all business into worker coops? Unions are good but I think this is their ultimate limitation, that employers can just offshore their jobs

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      4 months ago

      Argentina has somewhat of a history of workers seizing their factories. I think it would be extremely hard in the U.S. due to the well-funded police. Generally, I guess the movement would be “anarcho-syndicalism.”

      Edit: misremembered worker factory takeovers in the past as occurring in Venezuela instead of Argentina.

      • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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        Forcing is absolutely good. We force companies to do all kinds of things, in terms of corporate governance (publicly traded companies must have their finances audited, for example), ownership (banks used to be prevented from buying stock so that they would not avoid calling in bad debt), and how they do business (collusion between big tech to keep salaries down for example).

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        By that hyper-simplistic “logic” people shouldn’t be forced into prison if they murder someone.

        Clearly some kinds of forcing in some situations are “good”, and if some are good but other not, that means the real discussion is all about “when is forcing right and when is it not?” something that childlike “logic” of yours doesn’t even begin to address.

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          Forcing to defend the lives of others, is very different from forcibly taking what belongs to others

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            4 months ago

            The meme is right, the claim of belonging is complete bullshit. Your toothbrush and your home belong to you, a business involving multiple people belongs to everyone involved. The idea that it doesn’t is narcissism and evil.

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              4 months ago

              Your toothbrush and your home belong to you, a business involving multiple people belongs to everyone involved.

              You’re free to believe what you want, I’m personally a Lockean property rights enjoyer.