Become your own boss and I can exploit you like an employee but fire you at will and you pay your own taxes

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    There’s also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with “you can just go out and steal some land” as a release valve you’re still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors

    The only way around that is a robust state program to ensure equitable distribution and that’s verboten for people pushing this ideology

    Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn’t work at all

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      There’s also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with “you can just go out and steal some land” as a release valve you’re still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors

      Yeah that is a common misconception about how western expansion happened in the US. It gets depicted as a massive cell cluster of small family farms blooming forth, but in reality it was rich east coast land speculators buying up all the choice parcels and the small family farms ended up with the scraps.

      Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn’t work at all

      It’d be massively inefficient. At that level of state involvement it’d be more straightforward to just socialize the economy and only keep around the handful of sole proprietorships that serve some sort of useful niche.