• ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    That was an incredibly interesting read, and I learned a lot! Thank you for posting it!

    It’s genuinely infuriating that so much labor is simply stolen, in so many different ways, from people with a passion for what they do, and turned into profit for some mega corp, with the vast majority funneled to a few people completely unrelated to the any work.

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      11 hours ago

      Anyone who doesn’t work for themselves is getting their labor stolen, and that includes me. The name for this type of systemic crime is “capitalism.”

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        9 hours ago

        Not if you are being compensated for your labour. The actual crime that describes stolen labour is “slavery”

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          I think you could make an argument that being compensated for your labour, but way under the value your labour produces and also under the constant threat of homelessness and starvation if you don’t do it is still an unethical system.