>>21329514Modern Capitalism is built on shared private ownership much like Communism aims for. The only difference is that in Capitalist countries, ownership is defined for individual citizens in the spirit of actual republics and not solely to the state as would be authoritarian, something you're truly subjected to. Trading stock is trading ownership. In Capitalist countries, anyone can buy company or asset stock. As a simple example of a situation i recently heard about: 3 farmers came together to purchase a windmill which generated enough power for them all to use, each getting a 33% share in the ownership of the mill. Why should the government, a group of people far away from the farms, not even in the same province as the farmers, take ownership of that? Because some person somewhere else also wanted a few kilowatt to run their popcorn machine? Why shouldn't that person buy their own generator suited to their own situation? In terms of company assets, clicking numbers on a screen is how far we have gotten in terms of optimizing management of value. Mental labor will always pay many fold better than physical. Pretty much everyone can do physical labor, not everyone can do mental labor. Mental labor yields the physical labor, not the other way around. The few that do it deserve more. Additionally everyone actually in a desperate situation has several means to get back on their own two feet including welfare, which is very affordable cause of the unprecedented productivity of Capitalism.
