Humans invented stuff and developed it. Since this has been organized through corporations in the last couple of centuries, one can argue that corporations did this. But it could have happened via other types of organisations of human inventors and workers, so I don’t buy that. The status quo often looks inevitable and obvious and the only choice. Corporations get charters and the government used to revoke them if they were criminal or problematic in some way. But that stopped. It’s a priviledge and revoking should return. We should, at the very least, have caps on corporate size and these caps could be very low down. Small flexible entrepreneurs, rather than these dinorsaurs tramping on whatever they feel like.
Corporate structure allows middlemen to make money off no labor. It currently allows ratios of payment that would have seemed obscene, even by CEOs, back in the 50s and back when roads were being paved with government funding, perhaps even workers being government employees for that matter.
Corporations don’t have hands or intentions and they don’t feed us We feed us, and this, now and for many years now via organizing ourselves in corporations. That was the pattern many of we organized ourselves to carry out OUR work and OUR innovations. It’s like if me and my friends create an app sitting on chairs in a certain pattern in a room decide we didn’t come up with the app, the chairs did. Not, not the chairs, the pattern of the chairs in the room. We send our profits to a Platonic chair form. Oh, you fed us chair pattern. Don’t move those fucking chairs, it is the only way to come up with apps, you commie bastard.
We can do this other ways and we don’t owe the non-living corporations anything, them being abstractions and not living entities, despite the horrific corporate personhood idea that, well, is idiocy itself made law.
I don’t mind some people making more money than others.
But current capitalism includes a lot of making money for not doing labor AND fiat banking where banks can loan out unreal money and this then creates money they can then invest. The hallucinated money they loan out must be repaid or they possess your real objects and businesses and property. This puts way too much power in the hands of people who are not making a fucking thing. It also creates all sorts of unreal distortions out there in the economy. If someone wants to work their ass off and this entails them getting more compensation or someone else comes up with something more useful that what I come up with, I don’t mind them having more money. But note the name capitalism. Capitalism is not coincidentally heavily focused on capital, on how to make money via ownership rather than work or inventing. I also would not completely close this off, but it is not a good way to focus an economy. And the capitalists now have more VOTE not the little ‘votes’ humans get, more influence over foreign policy, more control of media and thus what is taken as obvious and inevitable and who we should go to war with. etc.
So we think it must be so, because the people who benefit from it being this particular, oddly skewed and damaging form that it is nowadays, have the power to tell us this is it. This is the way it must be or you’ll be living in Gulags. The utter void of creativity and false dichotomy worship is amazing.
And then other people locked in the system, even without much power, parrot the capitalists’
‘truths’
and tell the rest of us that we owe abstract non-living entities for what we have all managed to do.
Brainwashed supernatural ideas about how things must be. We don’t owe these ghostly contracts a thing.
Nor do we need to accept the parastical relations they set up. Fucking X factor Idol contests held at the society level, culling for talent, then claiming they are responsible for it.