• OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    You don’t own the stall of a public toilet and you can still expect to use it without having people walk on you. It’s like we can all agree to distribute resources and keep rights like privacy without the need of property.

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      20 hours ago

      how about instead of restricting all ownership, you instead just limited it.

      My idea is that basically once anybody hits 10 million in net worth (for example), then we just say ‘well done, you’ve completed it mate’. Now fuck off down the beach and don’t come back.

      Basically tax any further income of any kind at 100%.

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        18 hours ago

        This. Then just put up a scoreboard of who’s excess revenue is providing the most tax revenue to the public, then they can play for first place and we can all benefit off of their sociopathic narcissism. Everybody wins.

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      21 hours ago

      While I agree with you, in principle, I much prefer my toilet than a public toilet with partial privacy and partial cleanliness.

      I think it’s going to be interesting when we move from private ownership of cars to self driving, shared, how there may be different classes again, like trains of old. It’s inevitable we transition. The gig economy is effectively a more even distribution of resource usage with benefits environmentally. However, we need to ensure it’s more even ownership too, which is looking unlikely at this point.

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        20 hours ago

        Self driving cars are not going to stop car ownership, that’s pure CEO fantasy. The logistics of it doesn’t make any sense. Gig economy it’s the opposite of even distribution, it’s companies owning everything and workers owning nothing. Stop drinking the neoliberal kool aid.

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          20 hours ago

          Gig economy is better distribution of asset use, as I said. The problem to correct is distribution of ownership, again as I already said. Stop drinking the socialism kool aid. Nobody owning cars is more likely than community ownership.

          Car ownership may not go away but it’s likely to decrease. It’s rare in America to not own a car. It’s less rare in cities with good public transport, eg New York, Europe. Self driving, on demand taxis may mean the same effect is carried over to places that currently don’t have great public transport.