Message from @Mr. X

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2018-05-14 02:40:11 UTC  

"Muh human nature"
We make a distinction between private and personal property. When we say we want to abolish private property, we mean that no one person should "own" a factory or a farm because it's naturally exploitative. Personal property is things like your house, your belongings, your phone, your car. We know that people want to have their own stuff so under communism you'd still have your own stuff.

2018-05-14 02:40:51 UTC  

So is having many people owning property.

2018-05-14 02:41:13 UTC  

You still have your own stuff except for your own businesses

2018-05-14 02:41:30 UTC  

No. We don't like slavery of course

2018-05-14 02:41:40 UTC  

And yes

2018-05-14 02:41:44 UTC  

Yes because giving people jobs is totally slavery

2018-05-14 02:42:29 UTC  

"slave
sleɪv/Submit
noun
1.
(especially in the past) a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them."

2018-05-14 02:42:40 UTC  

I thought you were saying slavery. We don't think working is slavery. We think that working for a wage subtracted from the value of labor you produce.

2018-05-14 02:42:50 UTC  

Is slavery

2018-05-14 02:42:54 UTC  

Fuck me

2018-05-14 02:43:20 UTC  

Subtracted? That's not capitalism

2018-05-14 02:43:25 UTC  

that's the exact opposite of capitalism

2018-05-14 02:43:31 UTC  

^no true scottsman

2018-05-14 02:43:59 UTC  

The harder you work and the more productive you are working and the more you benefit people the richer you become usually.

2018-05-14 02:44:19 UTC  

You're the one making the strawmans.

2018-05-14 02:45:04 UTC  

The boss doesn't work at all, and yet he gets the largest portion of the profit. Your wage is subtracted.

2018-05-14 02:45:09 UTC  

The boss does.

2018-05-14 02:45:30 UTC  

No. He doesn't make the things his company sells, the workers do.

2018-05-14 02:45:30 UTC  

The boss is the most important in the business.

2018-05-14 02:45:53 UTC  

His workers sell while he employs them and gives them instructions and leads them

2018-05-14 02:46:05 UTC  

and thats just a handful of what they do

2018-05-14 02:46:12 UTC  

some also sell and some dont

2018-05-14 02:46:41 UTC  

Are all communists so upset and jealous of their bosses?

2018-05-14 02:47:08 UTC  

No. We just recognise that their mere existance is immoral.

2018-05-14 02:47:30 UTC  

Then be self employed

2018-05-14 02:48:06 UTC  

If everyone could do that then capitalism would collapse

2018-05-14 02:48:06 UTC  

Or just make a family business

2018-05-14 02:48:18 UTC  

No it wouldnt

2018-05-14 02:48:22 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/308950154222895104/445417060516888587/image.jpg

2018-05-14 02:48:25 UTC  

since everyone can do that

2018-05-14 02:48:34 UTC  

It just takes a lot of skill to do so

2018-05-14 02:48:38 UTC  

I assume

2018-05-14 02:48:44 UTC  

You assume

2018-05-14 02:49:26 UTC  

I assume it takes a lot of skill to be self employed yes.

2018-05-14 02:50:47 UTC  

I could obviously be wrong though.

2018-05-14 02:50:51 UTC  

The economic conditions you're born into signifigantly effect your oppurtunities. If the opposite were true then everyone would be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, which of course isn't true.

2018-05-14 02:52:16 UTC  

It can effect your oppurtunities yes but you can still be successful and rich if you try.

2018-05-14 02:53:24 UTC  

My grandad started off going to england for a job then came back with a shoe and a pound or something. Then he climbed the ladder by working very hard and did so until he died. Now my family is rich.

2018-05-14 02:53:39 UTC  

Only like 1 in 10 people in the lower class end up making six figures. Surely the other 9 were trying hard enough and weren't lucky enough.

2018-05-14 02:53:51 UTC  

And this was very long ago and in Ireland.

2018-05-14 02:54:06 UTC  

Well good for your family