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2026-07-28 05:24 UTC

@MissConstrue@mefi.social @aptitude@mastodon.social @anolandria@mastodon.social one that i found particularly brilliant on the left is the idea of "a worker is entitled to all of their labor's value" on its face, sounds like an obvious statement, but in practice, it requires the entire economy to be made out of individual entrepreneurs, worker co-ops and/or other structures which imply participant ownership (and even then, it would only function metaphorically, as any one worker who actually takes all of their labor's value as profit and doesn't reinvest it into maintenance / repairs / etc. will find their workspace deteriorating) p.s. and it also implies either the non-existence of taxation, or the idea that the entire public sector also belongs to the people which, to be fair, is also not a bad idea on its face, but can be used maliciously, such as during stalin's soviet union, where theft of state-owned property (which was most of property at the time) was treated as a "counterrevolutionary" crime and punished excessively harshly

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  • @MissConstrue@mefi.social 2026-07-28 15:56

    @rnd@toot.cat @aptitude@mastodon.social @anolandria@mastodon.social Yeah, there's some delicacy is the word "all" that would have to be defined. That sounds more like libertarianism than liberalism.

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  • @rnd@toot.cat @MissConstrue@mefi.social @aptitude@mastodon.social @anolandria@mastodon.social I don't think it was meant to be taken literally. What would a light bulb factory worker do with 1,000 light bulbs?

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