• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    One of the challenges is of course that the wealthy don’t get paid. They own and control assets that appreciate in value.

    What if we ended private ownership of businesses. I don’t mean ending ownership of businesses, but that every business became publicly tradeable. No more private ownership of businesses.

    I’m not actually advocating this (yet), just curious what people think would happen if we did this.

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      4 months ago

      Enshittifcation would be mandatory via forced infinite growth to profit shareholders.

      Instead, we can make the employees up to middle management and lower own a minimum of 60% shares of every company that way they’re not constantly getting fucked and they actually have a voice.

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        4 months ago

        If employees own 60% then they should invest 60% of a company capital.

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          4 months ago

          They are. With their time, whether that probationary or goes away if you do + some other obvious grey areas. This whole “business owners are taking all the risk so they have more money they can ever spend” nonsense is costing us, costing the government, and costing the environment. Shit has got to go.