• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Well corporatism and capitalism are heavily linked they are not the same thing. Lot of people own their own company it doesn’t make them capitalists. You can have a company which is you mowing lawns but I wouldn’t say you control the means of production. You’re just providing a service. And certainly no one’s dumb enough to think selling your labor makes you a capitalist.

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      9 hours ago

      But then what about the corporations that rely on selling labor - outsourcing, software houses, even finance to some extent. Are they not capitalist?

      One can argue that it’s the labourers that’s the resource, or it’s the information that’s the resource. But then why labor per-se isn’t? Or knowledge, the expertise.

      Is the resource being finite the major factor? But a man can practise in his field only for so long.