• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    1 month ago

    All technologies are grifts when controlled by the capitalist class and marketed under the logic of capitalism. Simple as that. Even the simple hammers you find at a hardware store are a side effect of some rich asshole’s money hoarding operation.

    For this reason, I do not reject the listed technologies outright. (Although I do not personally know of a non-capitalist use for Blockchain, I’m open to suggestions.) I reject the capitalists who control these technologies.

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      1 month ago

      Let me see if I got this right. By that logic if I can see that people need spoons to eat their soup and I provide said spoons at a price that covers my costs and earn me a profit for my hard work to produce them, I’m an asshole that hoards money?

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        1 month ago

        Depends. Are you one of the workers in the spoon production process? Then no, you’re not an asshole that hoards money, at least not on that basis.

        Do you privately own the factory? Do you privately own all the spoons that the workers? Then yes, you’re hoarding money.

        Profits are just wealth stolen from workers.