• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    20·
    11 hours ago

    In all fairness, the concept of owning things isn’t unique to capitalism - it’s Personal property vs. “Private” property. Whether it’s money or bartering, the things you bought you own via your own hard work, and that’s your personal property.

    Private property shouldn’t be a thing. A corporation shouldn’t own anything - there should always be a person on that contract that can be held to account. If you want to profit from your enterprise, you should be prepared to go down with it.

    • StinkySocialist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      I’m sorry I need to define the difference differently. My mental illness won’t let me not lol. Too afraid people won’t get it.

      Personal property: your house, your car, your clothes , your tooth brush, even your commercial grade bbq truck you use for fun.

      “Private property”: the means of production, working money, factory, stocks, business infrastructure. Statistically speaking scraps of stocks are the only private property anyone reading this owns.

      The profits that come from “having your money work for you” are really just taking surplus value from someone else’s labor.

      • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 hours ago

        People were able to buy stuff in communist countries like GDR and other soviet republics (well, shortages of goods aside of course lol). So those were capitalist in a way then?

        Stalin et all. turning in their grave intensifies

        Jokes aside:

        Key points defining capitalism are the pursuit of profit and that the means of production are in private hands. Buying stuff is a “feature” of many systems besides capitalistic ones.

        Edit: fixed autocowrecktion