Many people would like to extract rents from you. I'm sure a lot of people would like a steady trickle (or torrent) or money they don't work for. The beauty of #capitalism is...you don't have to give it to them, in a free market. I don't pay a subscription for my car, or pay for proprietary ink cartridges. There are other options.
Under #socialism? You pay the #government and take what they provide. Don't like it? Well, tough shit; there are no other choices.
@AlexanderKingsbury You can have free markets without capitalism, even under socialism...Feudal Japan operated a sort of free market economy.
The sad reality is that capital tends to accumulate under the ownership of the select few (or you could even argue that it was taken away centuries ago) while the rest of us become serfs paying rent and being forced to work for meager wages just enough to pay rent and utility.
"You can have free markets without capitalism, even under socialism"
That is nonsensical. A fee market is a market without government intervention. Socialism, by definition, is an economy where the government owns the means of production.
No, communism describes (in part) a stateless society. To say that the state owns the means of production when there is no state is also nonsensical.
I agree; you can have collective ownership without government ownership. In fact, we do have that, on a vast scale. Just look at the stock market; nearly every company of any significant size in the US is owned by a group of people, not an individual.
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Owning stock shares is not the same as ownership of the corporation. Corporations really own themselves.
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