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This week’s Weekly discussion thread will be focused on Capitalism / Economic Systems. Here is the definition we will be using so everyone can use the same terminology. If your argument does not use that definition, we ask that you reframe so that it does so that everyone can work within the same framework.
Here are some questions that should help kickstart things:
- Is capitalism effective? Is it good, or as evil as some Lemmy instances will have you believe?
- Are there better alternatives, and why are they better?
- How could we realistically move toward those alternatives?
- Is there anything you do not understand or would like to discuss about Capitalism / Economic Systems?
The workers in a firm are jointly de facto responsible for using up the inputs to produce the output. In capitalism, the employer solely holds the produced outputs and liabilities for used-up inputs. This violates the principle that legal and de facto responsibility should match. Here, there is an inalienable right, which means it cannot be given up even with consent, of workers. This right is only secured if all firms are worker coops where both types of responsibility match