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VitriolicViolet t1_j2fq10a wrote

its a shame that in a such a small scale scenario the problem would never even develop (gonna have a hell of a time convincing those 10 people that you somehow dont have all the food once they all start talking) yet once you hit a large enough population you have enough abstraction that the man with 90% of everything can just convince half the population that other half have taken it all.

people decry China's media as being controlled and dominated but how is US media being owned by 3 people who are wealthier than entire nations any better?

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SabotageGoodActually t1_j2fs1mq wrote

100% that’s exactly what private ownership is, an abstraction. What does it mean to own something? How can someone claim to own the land, or the food that grows on the land, or the things that were made by someone else’s labor? People in our society are raised to take these questions for granted, like the laws of physics, when in reality it is just an ideology.

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