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J Lou

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  • A simple argument shows that capitalism is theft and workers have an inalienable right to workplace democracy - 35 minute video

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  • Thanks for the feedback. Will try to keep that in mind when coming up with post titles

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  • A distraction from the election: The case for employee-owned companies

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  • Any company that receives government subsidies or is bailed out because it's too big too fail or whatever the reason should be mandated to become a worker coop

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  • A distraction from the election: The case for employee-owned companies

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  • The founders can hold more or all non-voting preferred stock in the worker coop to represent their larger stake and investment. They can also use a separate corporation, which only the founders own, with no employees to hold their capital and then lease it the worker coop

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  • A distraction from the election: The case for employee-owned companies

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  • It would definitely be easier in an economy where this was the only way of doing things.

    I am not a lawyer.

    Based on the underlying economic theory and ethical arguments for worker coops/employee-owned companies, what you could do in such a situation is make a separate legal entity for the worker coop, and then lease the assets of the current legal entity to the worker coop. You and your partner maintain exclusive ownership of the original legal entity

    @politics

  • politics @lemmy.world
    J Lou @mastodon.social

    A distraction from the election: The case for employee-owned companies

  • 'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits

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  • Or we could abolish the employer-employee contract and mandate that all firms be worker coops, so that no one could appropriate the positive and negative fruits of other people's labor

    @news

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

  • I hope this does not happen.

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  • Eat lead

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  • That sentence has a presupposition. The sentence I used can be fully formalized in a logic with predicates for knowledge of an entity and truth

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  • Eat lead

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  • Anarchist Rule

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  • I am a mutualist as well. I just use the term, economic democracy as David Ellerman calls it, instead because mutualism doesn't seem as clear. Also, mutualism has anarchist connotations, which I am sympathetic to, but I believe the movement to abolish capitalism should be broader than anarchism.

    In other words,

    anarchist economic democracy = mutualism

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  • Anarchist Rule

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  • I am an anti-capitalist.

    To get rid of capitalism, you don't have to abolish absentee ownership of capital. A worker coop can lease capital from third parties and remain a non-capitalist democratic worker coop. Abolishing capitalism just requires abolishing the employment contract and common ownership of land and natural resources. Without the employment contract, everyone is either individually or jointly self-employed, so every firm is a worker coop

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  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    I hate elasticity of demand

  • Eat lead

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  • "This sentence contains 2 words" is a sensible sentence. It has 5 words, so what the sentence says is false.

    The self-reference in the sentence is similar to that of the Liar's paradox. Cousins of that paradox have been used to prove major limitative results in mathematical logic such as

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27sundefinabilitytheorem

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27sincompletenesstheorems

    In usual logic, a false sentence implies every sentence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialconditional

    Also, if sentence P is false, then "P is false" is true

    @sciencememes

  • Eat lead

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  • It is a paradox if you believe there are omniscient beings. If there are no omniscient beings, there is no paradox. The sentence is either true or false. If the sentence is true, we have an omniscient being that lacks knowledge about a true statement. Contradiction. If it is false, there is an omniscient being that knows it to be true. This means that the statement is true, but the statement itself says that no omniscient being knows it to be true. Contradiction.

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  • Eat lead

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  • Self-referential paradoxes are at the heart of limitative results in mathematical logic on what is provable, so it seems plausible a similar self-referential statement rules out omniscience.

    Greek gods are gods in a different sense than the monotheistic conception of god that is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. Sure, so the argument I give only applies to the latter sense.

    @sciencememes

  • Anarchist Rule

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  • Capitalism and authoritarian Marxist-Leninist states are not the only alternatives. There are other alternatives like Georgist economic democracy. In such a system, everyone would be either individually or jointly self-employed while receiving their share of the value derived from natural resources

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  • Eat lead

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  • If we assume that god, by definition, must be omniscient, there is actually a way to disprove the possibility with the following paradox:

    This sentence is not known to be true by any omniscient being.

    There are also more traditional arguments like the problem of evil

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  • Economics @lemmy.ml
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    Putting Jurisprudence Back into Economics

  • FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

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  • There are other alternatives to capitalism besides Authoritarian Marxist-Leninist states. An example would be Georgist economic democracy. Some policies in such an economy:

    1. All firms would be legally mandated to protect the inalienable right to worker democracy by structuring as democratic worker coops. There would thus be no haves appropriating 100% of the fruits of the have nots' labor
    2. 100% land tax and carbon tax
    3. PCO for all capital
    4. Guaranteed minimum income

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  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    Why progressives should advocate for universal worker democracy (i.e. worker coops) and oppose employer-employee contracts - "Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument"

  • The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community

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  • The root of the loss of community that everyone feels is capitalism's total emphasis on institutional logics of exit that make everything extremely transactional while completely ignoring the dual institutional logic of commitment, cooperation and voice. Community emphasizes the latter. We need communities based around shared property, mutual aid and collective action. Incidentally, having such communities could help solve some public goods problems in a non-state manner and be more egalitarian

  • The diagram centrists don't want you to see

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  • You called centrists framing the debate about capitalism as one of consent vs. coercion a strawman then accepted the framing. Democratic theory requires consent. It just also requires consent to delegate ruling out consent to alienate management/governenance rights justified by inalienable rights.

    Stable employee-owned firms:https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100

    A country that lets people sell voting rights wouldn't be democratic for long. Does democracy not work? Is it undesirable?

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  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    The diagram centrists don't want you to see

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    Partial Common Ownership: A New Model for Ownership - A new alternative to capitalist private property

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
    J Lou @mastodon.social

    The Problems with Money and Without Money, and Communal Currencies and Vouchers - "Plural Money, Socially-Provided Goods, and the Principal-Agent Problem"

  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
    J Lou @mastodon.social

    The case for employee-owned companies

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
    J Lou @mastodon.social

    The Telekommunist Manifesto

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    "Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument." How the capitalist employer-employee relationship violates fundamental rights

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
    J Lou @mastodon.social

    Capitalist Markets Aren’t “Free.” They’re Planned for Profit.

  • General Discussion @lemmy.world
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    The case for liberal anti-capitalism in the 21st century

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
    J Lou @mastodon.social

    "Zoë Hitzig | What is quadratic funding?" - A democratic mechanism that a postcapitalist society could use to allocate resources to public goods, so they're available to each according to need

  • Leftism @lemmy.world
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    We Don't Agree on Capitalism: Demarcating the Red and Black