ID: Kомисcap Rareș is gay for Skye @DerLinkePixel posted:
"Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time
Boss makes a hundred
I don’t make jack
That’s why I riot
To seize the means back"
ID: Kомисcap Rareș is gay for Skye @DerLinkePixel posted:
"Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time
Boss makes a hundred
I don’t make jack
That’s why I riot
To seize the means back"
If you’re saying that you own the means of your production while working under an employer, then we might have different definitions of these words.
Screwdrivers are a trivial component in the “barrier to entry” to starting a business. Those extra bucks to you can be a very significant “surplus value” for most employees.
My means of production are a laptop and an internet connection. I have both. My employer can keep the surplus value, as long as they do the customer handling, accounting, marketing, etc, all of which I had to do myself being self-employed.
Do you own the servers your company use? The software you write? Etc.
We rent servers in the cloud because it’s cheaper than owning them. I did the same for some projects when I was freelancing.
The software I write… I don’t own it, same as an electrician doesn’t own the cables he installs in your house. It’s the product I’m getting paid to create, why would I own it?
This whole “we should own the means of production” screams of 19th century farmers and factory workers. It’s 2025, plenty of people already own their means of production, from IT bros and lawyers to farmers, electricians and cleaning personnel. And communism didn’t have to do anything with it.