new blog post: Businesses without Workers
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-09-businesses-without-workers.en.html
a reflection (with some economic disappointment) on @pluralistic@mamot.fr's A World Without People
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-09-businesses-without-workers.en.html
a reflection (with some economic disappointment) on @pluralistic@mamot.fr's A World Without People
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/
followup with further considerations at
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-10-feudal-business-value-extraction.en.html
CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr, @tetrislife@qoto.org
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-10-feudal-business-value-extraction.en.html
CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr, @tetrislife@qoto.org
I never thought I'd ever write In Defense of Capitalism, but... here goes
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html
CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr @tetrislife@qoto.org
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html
CC: @pluralistic@mamot.fr @tetrislife@qoto.org
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@lxo any alternative would also be maligned with the wrong term.
If you give control over business organization to society, it would be via government - and that would be called socialism/communism, even if it is very different and more like a board of directors in a corporate setup.
No brouhaha if Google splits into a few pieces under Alphabet, but "communism" if it had been a few pieces under government control (not even government shareholding).
