cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38044536
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
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This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
- Meta's entry into the fediverse
- Game companies putting gambling mechanics in childrens games
- Embracer groups buyout and closing of smaller game studios
- IP trolls destroying small companies and keeping progress back for profit
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.
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Listen, I get that you're used to being among fellow systemists but this group is not that.
I'm not missing a point. If people need a second factory, they will build a second factory. YOU're missing the point that people are perfectly able to do this on their own. Without a competitive incentive, helping others to make another factory becomes a nonissue.
Many. I'm not wikipedia. if you genuinely want to learn something, look at anarchist, communist and socialist communities on lemmy, maybe read on the anarchist faq or the other hundreds of places where alternative systems are taught. andrewism on youtube has some nice videos on the matter.
Again, capitalism is the only system that cares about competition. of course the person with the iphone is gonna outcompete the others. that IS THE POINT!
You're absolutely doing capitalist apologia and I'm not only saving you the "vanilla responses" I'm saving myself any further of this stuff. Please stop arguing for arguments sake. This community is not for capitalists. if you want to learn, start asking informative questions or ask for books and other resources instead of trying to explain why capitalism is somehow the better system, which BY FAR it is not.
Literally no. See: The massive swathes of the world where factories are needed and yet not built, so everyone is forced to pay through the nose for imported goods.
No? Labor is never a "nonissue"; it's literally labor. Even in a communist utopia someone with a good product idea would need to provide something to get me to build a factory to manufacture that product. Capitalism has mechanisms (flawed as they are) for choosing good ideas and getting workers to pour their labor into materializing said good ideas. This is not something that can be taken for granted; the lack of such mechanisms is what killed places like the Ottoman Empire and Qing China.
So basically "read theory". If there are many examples, then it shouldn't be difficult to provide even one.
The heck? Societies have competed with each other economically, politically and militarily for as long as societies existed, and guess what? Having worse means of production makes a society weaker on all three fronts, and therefore more liable to be pushed around, defeated militarily or colonized. This isn't rocket science; this is literally the lived reality of half the world. Advanced means of production enable a society to dominate societies with less advanced means of production; that's how European colonialism happened, and it's why the West and China are the top dogs of the modern world order. You cannot just handwave advancing the means of production as something that is unnecessary or will take care of itself and expect to be taken seriously. I'm not even batting for capitalism here; screw capitalism, but whatever alternative will take its place needs to satisfy certain conditions to not be colonized by the capitalist world order. If your communist utopia can't develop new technologies and turn them into real economic activity on the ground at the same pace as a capitalist economy, capitalists will collapse the whole thing faster than you can say bourgeoisie. Arguments against capitalist innovation/"innovation" usually address the former, but I have never seen the latter addressed. If you have a response to that other than "read theory" then be my guest, otherwise I hope you notice you're not providing anything of value to this conversation.
As I already told you, capitalist apologism is not valued here. This conversation is over. Good luck pushing your ideology somewhere else.