• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    16 hours ago

    If you’re not allowed to do profit then who would do trade and why? Nobody likes working in retail, nobody likes being a plumber. Markets can and should compensate and reward people fairly, the problem is some people are allowed to take too much, and even small profit can be made at the expense of others, will you have an investigative unit that decides when people have used enough water?

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      11 hours ago

      If you’re not allowed to do profit then who would do trade and why?

      Because one can’t possibly own or learn everything so you’ll have to trade some thing you have for something you want. Skills, food, stuff, art, tools, music.

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        11 hours ago

        And while we’re at it, since it’s difficult to get everything you need in exchange for something they need, it would help to have a universal token of agreed upon value for us all to trade with. /s

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          4 hours ago

          And your point here being…?

          Are you implying that currency is a product of capitalism or that currency only exists under capitalist societies?

          Lol, I’m no historian but I almost sure that currency has existed in basically all big societies way before capitalism was a thing…

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      10 hours ago

      I love working in retail. I was a contract analyst for some years (very boring, highly paid and painstaking insurance work), now I work in a bakery as a barista, and I’m dragging my feet about finishing my masters because I don’t really want to stop working there.

      Sometimes people are shitty, but it’s clear work that doesn’t stress me out at home and I’m glad to provide my community with bread.

      I can’t really imagine plumbers hate being plumbers- it’s work that they train years for, with very transferable skills if they wanted to switch to anything else along the way. Do you have any evidence that plumbers hate their jobs?