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Scaling up democratic ownership: Adapting the employee ownership model to build truly democratic businesses

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-11-05/scaling-up-democratic-ownership-adapting-the-employee-ownership-model-to-build-truly-democratic-businesses/

@socialism

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[-] jlou@mastodon.social 50 points 2 months ago

How can this be a rejection of the far left when Harris campaigned as a moderate (e.g. Cheney)? If republican voters are going to think Democrats are communist regardless of how moderate the Democrats are, maybe moderating isn't a good strategy. If the only choice is between right-wing and lite right-wing, right-wing voters will choose the real thing. Even then, Trumpists will still call democrats communists.

Many left polices are popular when they aren't labelled as left

@theonion

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 203 points 2 months ago

If the Republicans are going to call the Democrats communists and socialist regardless of how moderate a campaign Democrats run, Democrats might as well lean further left on economic policy. Appealing to the right does nothing because the right can appeal to the right better than the center-left can

@leftism

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How Quadratic Funding Could Finance Your Dreams | Kevin Owocki | TED

https://youtu.be/1GRt0j698T4

Quadratic funding is an economic mechanism that can help solve

  1. Underfunded public goods
    - FOSS
    - News media and journalism
    - Art
  2. Lobbying dominates electoral politics with various concentrations of wealth influencing elections and public policy in their interest
  3. Markets ignore how broad the base of support is for a particular activity leading to inegalitarian results

@neoliberal

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jlou@mastodon.social to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

A simple argument shows that capitalism is theft and workers have an inalienable right to workplace democracy - 35 minute video

"David Ellerman: Neo-Abolitionism: Towards Abolishing the Institution of Renting Persons"

https://youtu.be/c2UCqzH5wAQ

The talk argues that employment contract is invalid due to inalienable rights. Inalienable means can’t be given up even with consent. Workers’ inalienable rights are rooted in their joint de facto responsibility for all production in the firm

@solarpunk

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What economists don't know - Why industrial policy will disappoint

https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/what-economists-dont-know

@neoliberal

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submitted 2 months ago by jlou@mastodon.social to c/socialism@beehaw.org

TED talk on quadratic funding, a non-market mechanism that a postcapitalist society could use to support a decentralized ecosystem of public goods available to each according to need

"How Quadratic Funding Could Finance Your Dreams | Kevin Owocki | TED"

https://youtu.be/1GRt0j698T4

This mechanism could be used to solve funding issues in public goods such as journalism and FOSS.

Please ignore the reference to crypto. This could be incorporated into today's voting process

@socialism

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Any company that receives government subsidies or is bailed out because it's too big too fail or whatever the reason should be mandated to become a worker coop

@politics

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submitted 2 months ago by jlou@mastodon.social to c/politics@lemmy.world

A distraction from the election: The case for employee-owned companies

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies

"Ellerman has for years made an argument as startling as it is hard to refute: “the labor theory of property.” It’s that employees should own the firms they work for because of very simple logic: If they’re responsible for the consequences of their actions while on the job — committing a crime, say — how can it be that they’re not responsible for the positive things they do?"

@politics

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If God must be omniscient, God doesn't exist

@atheistmemes

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submitted 2 months ago by jlou@mastodon.social to c/politics@beehaw.org

James Robinson, Nobel laureate in Economics: ‘You cannot achieve an inclusive economy with an authoritarian regime’

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-10-22/james-robinson-nobel-laureate-in-economics-you-cannot-achieve-an-inclusive-economy-with-an-authoritarian-regime.html

The economist and political scientist from the University of Chicago rejects the idea that repressive power structures will surpass the success of democratic systems, predicting that the Chinese model will eventually have to change

@politics

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submitted 2 months ago by jlou@mastodon.social to c/science@lemmy.world

Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today

@science

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jlou@mastodon.social to c/general@lemmy.world

Can a sentence be both true and false in the same sense? - Dialetheism

It might seem nonsensical until one sees the liar's paradox:

This sentence is false.

Using classical logic, this sentence seems to be both true and false. Due to the explosion rule, that implies every sentence. This is absurd, but philosophers don't agree on what has gone wrong here.

Dialetheism is the solution that accepts that it is both true and false and modifies logic to exclude the principle of explosion

@general

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Why capitalism is theft even if it is voluntary and consensual, and a case for universal worker democracy

“Neo-Abolitionism: Towards Abolishing the Institution of Renting Persons”

https://youtu.be/c2UCqzH5wAQ

The talk argues that capitalism is invalid on the basis of the theory of inalienable rights. Inalienable means can't be given up or transferred even with consent. Capitalist apologists often appeal to contractual consent to defend the system, so this changes the debate

@latestagecapitalism

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 20 points 5 months ago

I'm a leftist as well. The paper argues that the non-democratic liberals are wrong about the implications of liberal principles. It even goes further and makes an argument that coherent liberalism must also oppose capitalism, and capitalism is inherently non-democratic. By the end, the paper argues that a democratic economy controlled by workers is the only kind of economic organization compatible with liberalism. Capitalist liberalism is poison because it is incoherent

@sneerclub

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 36 points 5 months ago

Socialism vs capitalism is a false dichotomy. There are other alternatives like economic democracy or mutualism where all companies are democratic worker coops. There are other critics of capitalism besides Marx such as the classical laborists like Proudhon and their modern intellectual descendants like David Ellerman

@leftism

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 26 points 5 months ago

The employer-employee contract

It violates the theory of inalienable rights that implied the abolition of constitutional autocracy, coverture marriage, and voluntary self-sale contracts.

Inalienable means something that can't be transferred even with consent. In case of labor, the workers are jointly de facto responsible for production, so by the usual norm that legal and de facto responsibility should match, they should get the legal responsibility i.e. the fruits of their labor

@asklemmy

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 22 points 5 months ago

While many socialists supported worker coops in the interim, an economy of exclusively worker coops comes more so from the classical laborists such as Proudhon.

@general

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

After capitalism,

  1. All firms should be democratic worker coops. The legal system would recognize the inalienable right to workers' control.
  2. Land and natural resources should be collectively owned with revenue from private use of this collective property going out as a UBI. The atmosphere is included and any carbon fees are included.
  3. Pools of collectivized capital democratically controlled by workers in member worker coops. Each worker coop leases all its capital from the pool
[-] jlou@mastodon.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Land value tax would solve this when combined with a UBI from the revenue it generates

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not rightfully so

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doing what you're told does not relieve you of responsibility for the results of your actions

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reasons for anticapitalism

  1. It violates inalienable rights to democracy and to get the positive and negative fruits of their labor, which flow from the principle that legal and de facto responsibility should match. In the firm, the employees are de facto responsible, but employer is held solely legally responsible.
  2. It violates the equal claim to natural resources everyone today and future generations have. It, instead, incentivizes ruining the environment
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