A Worker coop is in fact a Capitalist business. They produce goods sold for a profit to return that as wages. FOSS only exists because the folks coding it are sharing what they made for their own benefit and only able to do so as they are otherwise gainfully employed. Thus Capitalism is the engine which allows FOSS to exist. Well done disproving your theory. That is indeed the first step to discovery.
This might be a bit of a shock to you, but none of what you said is correct.
The definition of Capitalism is not selling goods for profits to pay wages. Capitalism specifically requires Capitalists. If, like a Worker Co-op, the Workers equally share ownership of the Means of Production, it is not Capitalism and in fact becomes closer to Market Socialism, or even Syndicalism.
Worker Co-operatives can compete with Capitalist businesses in a market, absolutely, but that doesn’t make the entity itself Capitalist.
Secondly, FOSS exists regardless of the employment status of those who contribute. FOSS can exist based on donations, a student hobbyist, someone who relies on their spouse, or so forth. To attribute FOSS to Capitalism is like attributing the Civil Rights movement to the KKK, because the KKK allowed for the horribly racist conditions that forced black Americans to March for justice.
You have done nothing to disprove anything, except perhaps the myth that you may know what you were talking about.
Sorry, been in a Farmer coop. We were 100% Capitalist and profit based. Sold our production with the intent of making a profit. You are simply ill-informed as to the definitions of the terms you toss about. I also have provided Code for FOSS projects which I only could do as a result of being gainfully employed.
Your fantasy is based upon nothing more than your naivete.
Capitalism isn’t about selling for profit, precisely none of what you said contradicts it being Socialist.
Capitalism vs Socialism is about who owns the tools. If you were in a co-op with equal ownership among all of the workers, then you were in a Socialist entity, regardless of it being done for profit or otherwise.
Your contributions to a Socialist project while employed at a Capitalist institution does not make the project not Socialist.
Pray tell, what do you think Socialism and Capitalism are? You aren’t using common definitions in the slightest.
Socialism is workers owning the means of production, which only exist to be owned by them if they were first built which won’t happen at any scale under Socialism since it shall be a shit show of “I get mine now and you get the next one which never gets made”. How many 3d printers you think are going to get made when it takes hundreds of man hours to make one and the majority of the folks working on it get nothing for their time?
And, yup, a farming coop is a Socialist structure operating a Capitalist venture. Works fine for such things at small scale manual production but instantly falls apart when you start needing to transport it. The freight company needs gasoline and doesn’t have the storage for your grain you want to trade in return for them shipping it to the tractor manufacturer.
Oh, I know, next you’ll say that you still have money or some other legal tender to represent the goods such that you don’t have to ship them to the folks making the tractor. So you’ll need to have banks to come in to handle the “trade slips” or whatever you call it to avoid calling it money. And you now have to have a Gov. to assure the banks don’t cheat everyone…
Guess what? That is how we got money and Capitalism in the first place. Oops, you’ve simply made Capitalism with more less efficient steps. Your “common definitions”(not in use by anyone any where) leave a lot of reality and history out of the consideration.
Wow. Only the first phrase of your first sentence was correct. Why do you think people would get nothing for their time? Worker co-ops are examples of Socialism, by your very own definition.
Capitalism isn’t banks and money, lmao. Capitalism is exclusively the economic model by which capital Owners pay non-owner workers wages to create commodities for sale, ie individual ownership of Capital instead of Worker Ownership.
The very fact that you have no clue what you’re actually talking about and keep spouting whatever pops into your head means you should probably reevaluate your positions and familiarize yourself with leftist theory before you pretend to know what leftists actually advocate for.
A Worker coop is in fact a Capitalist business. They produce goods sold for a profit to return that as wages. FOSS only exists because the folks coding it are sharing what they made for their own benefit and only able to do so as they are otherwise gainfully employed. Thus Capitalism is the engine which allows FOSS to exist. Well done disproving your theory. That is indeed the first step to discovery.
Bullcrap. A worker co-op can easily exist outside a capitalist context.
This might be a bit of a shock to you, but none of what you said is correct.
The definition of Capitalism is not selling goods for profits to pay wages. Capitalism specifically requires Capitalists. If, like a Worker Co-op, the Workers equally share ownership of the Means of Production, it is not Capitalism and in fact becomes closer to Market Socialism, or even Syndicalism.
Worker Co-operatives can compete with Capitalist businesses in a market, absolutely, but that doesn’t make the entity itself Capitalist.
Secondly, FOSS exists regardless of the employment status of those who contribute. FOSS can exist based on donations, a student hobbyist, someone who relies on their spouse, or so forth. To attribute FOSS to Capitalism is like attributing the Civil Rights movement to the KKK, because the KKK allowed for the horribly racist conditions that forced black Americans to March for justice.
You have done nothing to disprove anything, except perhaps the myth that you may know what you were talking about.
Sorry, been in a Farmer coop. We were 100% Capitalist and profit based. Sold our production with the intent of making a profit. You are simply ill-informed as to the definitions of the terms you toss about. I also have provided Code for FOSS projects which I only could do as a result of being gainfully employed.
Your fantasy is based upon nothing more than your naivete.
Capitalism isn’t about selling for profit, precisely none of what you said contradicts it being Socialist.
Capitalism vs Socialism is about who owns the tools. If you were in a co-op with equal ownership among all of the workers, then you were in a Socialist entity, regardless of it being done for profit or otherwise.
Your contributions to a Socialist project while employed at a Capitalist institution does not make the project not Socialist.
Pray tell, what do you think Socialism and Capitalism are? You aren’t using common definitions in the slightest.
Socialism is workers owning the means of production, which only exist to be owned by them if they were first built which won’t happen at any scale under Socialism since it shall be a shit show of “I get mine now and you get the next one which never gets made”. How many 3d printers you think are going to get made when it takes hundreds of man hours to make one and the majority of the folks working on it get nothing for their time?
And, yup, a farming coop is a Socialist structure operating a Capitalist venture. Works fine for such things at small scale manual production but instantly falls apart when you start needing to transport it. The freight company needs gasoline and doesn’t have the storage for your grain you want to trade in return for them shipping it to the tractor manufacturer.
Oh, I know, next you’ll say that you still have money or some other legal tender to represent the goods such that you don’t have to ship them to the folks making the tractor. So you’ll need to have banks to come in to handle the “trade slips” or whatever you call it to avoid calling it money. And you now have to have a Gov. to assure the banks don’t cheat everyone…
Guess what? That is how we got money and Capitalism in the first place. Oops, you’ve simply made Capitalism with more less efficient steps. Your “common definitions”(not in use by anyone any where) leave a lot of reality and history out of the consideration.
Wow. Only the first phrase of your first sentence was correct. Why do you think people would get nothing for their time? Worker co-ops are examples of Socialism, by your very own definition.
Capitalism isn’t banks and money, lmao. Capitalism is exclusively the economic model by which capital Owners pay non-owner workers wages to create commodities for sale, ie individual ownership of Capital instead of Worker Ownership.
The very fact that you have no clue what you’re actually talking about and keep spouting whatever pops into your head means you should probably reevaluate your positions and familiarize yourself with leftist theory before you pretend to know what leftists actually advocate for.