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
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https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-10-feudal-business-value-extraction.en.html
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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
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https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html
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what if it is has always been just capitalism after all?
is surplus value from labor economically distinct from rent?
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-but-what-if-it-is-capitalism.en.html
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is surplus value from labor economically distinct from rent?
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-but-what-if-it-is-capitalism.en.html
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@lxo I was told ownership (of land) came from Hobbs, with a feudal-Christian background of extracting value ftom nature.
Until ownership was brought into India under colonialism, which land was tilled by whom for a given period of time was decided by community; land was a commons (infrastructure like irrigation was too).
