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kelseyfrog ◴[] No.45084668[source]
Companies have no morals. They only respond to profit.

Abolish the overtime exemption for computer systems analysts, computer programmers, and software engineers. Make it unprofitable to extract labor until someone dies. All other actions are impotent.

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martin-t ◴[] No.45085066[source]
How about instead abolishing privately owned companies?

Most western countries are democracies because people got fed up of being exploited by dictators (sometimes called "kings"), removed them and setup a system in which they elect who makes the decisions. This system has issues but is less bad than dictatorship.

Yet, companies kept their hierarchical power structures.

Workers should decide who makes the decisions. If they don't wanna invest time into selling their product, they hire a salesman. If they want somebody to make long term projections, plan what gets worked on and communicates with other teams, they hire an assistant. And they decide how much he gets paid according to how much value he actually brings them.

Managers should be assistants.

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ThrowawayR2 ◴[] No.45086366[source]
Anyone is free to create a worker-controlled, worker-owned business anytime they want. There are plenty of examples anytime the question comes up. In light of this, where is the need to abolish privately owned companies?
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1. martin-t ◴[] No.45086869[source]
Same reason we have laws against slavery and indentured servitude.
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2. sershe ◴[] No.45089681[source]
One is very much not like the other. If I create a piece of software then hire a helper to expand under a defined contract, if anything is at all like slavery, it is taking away my ownership so we could "share"