★ Amy Star ★capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."
my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"
BeldarakIt's really crazy (and infuriating) when they say this.
Capitalism is not that old. How do they think villages and communities were built and managed before capitalism?
Also, they will often default to the "who will clean the sewers in a socialist world?".
Man, I'd be happy to clean the sewers, on my own terms and schedule if it could prevent me from waking up every single day at dawn to do fuck all in front of a computer for 8 hours :|
ratfactorTotally. If you put somebody like me in charge of cleaning a sewer and gave me free reign and autonomy, I'm pretty sure I'd be reading books about sewers and the history of sewers and would make changes until it did NOT suck to clean anymore...for myself and whoever came after. Anything can be an interesting problem if you're enabled to solve it.
Yeah, it's easier to improve society when you don't have someone at the top syphoning all ressources