Are folks really pressuring independent artists, authors, etc., not to promote their work here?
Do you also picket your local independent cafe and mom and pop stores? What happens if you succeed in shutting them down? That’s right, you end up with a McDonald’s in their place.
Please learn to separate capitalists from folks trying to survive under capitalism. Independent people trying to pay their rent isn’t advertising, it’s existing. What Coca-Cola does is advertising.
#fediverse ❤️ #indie
I agree with the message, but not with the ideology.
Capitalism is not the problem. *Corporativism* is. *Globalization* is.
Market forces are good. Profit-seeking as a way to collectively determine the best allocation of resources is good. Exchange of capital for labor and services is good.
What is bad is to have *corporations* with so much money/power and a faceless "executive board of directors" who deal with a production system that affects people on the other side of the world.
@xjix @aral "commerce" has never been a term for a economic means of production. Maybe "Mercantilism" was such a thing, but that certainly involved a lot less of what people can do today.
In any case, this is arguing semantics. Farmers that is able to go to a bank to buy insurance for their crops or to finance the purchase of a tractor is very much a feature of Capitalism, it's still very desirable and that does *not* require large corporations to function properly.
Aral Balkan
Raphael Lullis
لا آلهة ، لا سادة