@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoWhat's our stance on sex work?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square83arrow-up1995arrow-down11
arrow-up1994arrow-down1imageWhat's our stance on sex work?lemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square83
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•2 months agoBeing a worker is degrading. Being an owner is empowering.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•2 months agoBeing a worker is empowering if you abolish Owners.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoWhat does that even mean in the context of sex work? People no longer own their own bodies? Sounds disempowering to me. A dystopia!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoCollective ownership, no individual ownership. Sex work would still be fundamentally different though, it isn’t the same as regular labor.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoCollective ownership? So I can hop on your laptop and do whatever I want?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoYou can use your laptop to start the next TikTok. Your laptop is a means of production.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoI understand. Collective Ownership entails collective management of Capital based on agreed-upon rules. It does not mean nobody owns anything.
minus-squarePudutr0nlinkfedilink1•2 months agoYou can’t really abolish ownership. Only transfer it. Abolish all private enterprise? Congrats, the elite political class that rules your government now owns you. :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 months agoYou can abolish ownership and make decisions democratically. It’s better than Capitalism where the wealthy few own the majority without democracy.
Capitalism makes work degrading
Being a worker is degrading.
Being an owner is empowering.
Being a worker is empowering if you abolish Owners.
What does that even mean in the context of sex work? People no longer own their own bodies? Sounds disempowering to me. A dystopia!
Collective ownership, no individual ownership.
Sex work would still be fundamentally different though, it isn’t the same as regular labor.
Collective ownership? So I can hop on your laptop and do whatever I want?
No.
You can use your laptop to start the next TikTok. Your laptop is a means of production.
I understand. Collective Ownership entails collective management of Capital based on agreed-upon rules. It does not mean nobody owns anything.
You can’t really abolish ownership. Only transfer it. Abolish all private enterprise?
Congrats, the elite political class that rules your government now owns you. :)
You can abolish ownership and make decisions democratically. It’s better than Capitalism where the wealthy few own the majority without democracy.