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Workers own the means of production. How would this work?

Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:03 pm
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:03 pm
How would a bunch of plant haws possibly agree on ideas to keep a business moving forward without leadership?

The whole idea of not having ownership is laughable.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
Member since Jan 2004
424260 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:05 pm to
if you get into the knitty gritty with a communist about this, they'll just tell you that you need to read more in a condescending tone
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
71548 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:07 pm to
Theoretically they would be stockholders and would hire a suit to worry about the business decisions.

Can work for one company. Can't work on a national level.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
262129 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:10 pm to
Oh yeah...the old left libertarian commie ideals. Unions and workers owning the factories.

None can tell you how it works. They'll just tell you to get more "educated."
Posted by Sooner5030
Desert Southwest
Member since Sep 2014
1717 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:10 pm to
I remember a Pomp podcast a year ago or more talked about decentralized or CEO-less organizations.

Sounds great in theory.....but it would almost have to be a group of individually owned LLCs with the right incentive structure set up to keep mutual trust between everyone.

It would have to be low capital business though. Banks would be hesitant to loan to such a loose group in total. Forget going public with that structure.

But it would be awesome.
Posted by Jack Bauers HnK
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
5732 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:14 pm to
Did they buy the means of production? Did they all pool their money to create a means of production? Are we supposed to take ownership away from the people who did risk their capital and give it to workers who risked nothing?
Posted by HeadSlash
TEAM LIVE BADASS - St. GEORGE
Member since Aug 2006
49932 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:16 pm to
My employees would be lost without me. They don't think further than their noses.
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
69050 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:20 pm to
Dumb people think this would work because 10 people own a bakery in San fransisco and it works for them.



And the ones that push this don't understand the risk and liability involved.
This post was edited on 3/9/21 at 8:26 pm
Posted by CheEngineer
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2019
4234 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:35 pm to
Pahahahaha in reality the working half would immediately want to fire the lazy half and then it would turn into an absolute shite show.

If you need a real life scenario think 35 year old still living at home eating potato chips and drinking your beer while you go to work each day.
Posted by CDawson
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2017
16468 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:36 pm to


It has never brought prosperity to the people in the history of the world yet the mentally ill filth want to do it again.

Posted by ninthward
Boston, MA
Member since May 2007
20482 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 8:40 pm to
ask the USSR how that worked
Posted by Swamp Angel
Georgia
Member since Jul 2004
7319 posts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 9:21 pm to
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Workers own the means of production. How would this work?


Why, my good lad, it would work very well indeed. As a matter of fact it has worked for centuries, if not millennia! The workers have ALWAYS owned the means of production.

Simply put, the poor, crazy bastard who decided to start a business worked his arse off to create it and make it work. Thus he is a worker. Also, he is the owner. Ergo, the workers own the means of production.
This post was edited on 3/9/21 at 9:22 pm
Posted by Brooklyntiger80
Member since Sep 2013
28 posts
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:21 am to
Look at Ben and Jerry’s, they pay their employees well, they care about the environment, not everything is about profit. Ben and jerry are probably rich but not “more money than someone could spend in 100 lifetimes” rich. Maybe we can find a middle ground between the Walmart billionaires employees are on food stamps subsidized by tax dollars and the socialist government owns everything.
Posted by Seldom Seen
Member since Feb 2016
40630 posts
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:25 am to
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Workers own the means of production. How would this work?



Like unions but even worse. That's how it would work.
Posted by Cossatotjoe
Member since Oct 2020
938 posts
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:26 am to
It means you set up these localize committees made up of representatives elected by workers who run the industries in the area. They set production quotas, make management decisions and so on and so forth. You could call those committees something like...I don’t know...soviets. These “soviets” would report to regional committees and ultimately to a national committee we could call something like...I don’t know...the politburo.
Posted by MFn GIMP
Member since Feb 2011
19454 posts
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:29 am to
Isn't the idea that they would have worker soviets who elected leaders to make some decisions while the soviets in general would make others? It would never work on a widescale of course but I think that is what they mean.
Posted by burger bearcat
Member since Oct 2020
8926 posts
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:33 am to
It's obviously a dumba** philosophy, but when the people you are selling it to are dumba**es, it sort of sells itself.

This is the fallout of an uneducated, dumba** population. People immediately gravitate to shite like this. And elites wait in the shadows ready to benefit.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91000 posts
Posted on 3/10/21 at 8:22 am to
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How would a bunch of plant haws possibly agree on ideas to keep a business moving forward without leadership?


Meet at sonic
Bracket filled with employee names and their idea
Winner of the whole fight bracket gets his idea implemented
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