This is what we had back in Henry Ford's time, back when cars were a new invention. You would negotiate with your boss on the price of your labor. He wants the bricks cheap, you want them expensive. This was a form of Socialism, and this was why so many people want to "Own The Means Of Production"

Imagine your boss owns all the tools but still gives you the freedom to use them how you see fit. Instead of paying you an hourly wage, you make however many bricks you can and then your boss buys those bricks back from you for the $1 your labor created.

"Well then he wouldn't make a dime!" True!

Under Socialism there are many ways you could "Own The Means Of Production". Socialism is the shades of gray between the two extrems of Capitalism and Communism. We get to decide what it means for ourselves.

Capitalism and Communism are both oppressive systems, lets craft something better from them

This is "Owning The Means of Production"; having the freedom to use the tools to create how you see fit. If you wanted to invent new Lego pieces, or move on to Studs or minifigs you have that choice because you are in equal footing to the rest of your coworkers at the factory.

What about Socialism?

Under Communism, the factory and the materials would all be owned by the state. When you go and decide to make a brick, the state owns that brick and decides what to do with it. You are however free to make bricks or studs or minifigs, or stay home and do nothing.

Each brick you create sells wholesale for $2, and costs $1 to create. This means that there is $1 of "Surplus Value" created when you make a brick. That's the value of your work.

Under capitalism, the owner of the factory gets that brick, sells it, and then decides how much of that $1 you get back.

how are you going to ignore the man in charge of both nukes and nuke relief?

This is ransom is it not? I know nothing is illegal for the president anymore but this feels like it would have been.

Sometimes in order to make things true you have to believe them first, or at least pretend to for the sake of trust. Tyner can be no progress if we keep fighting each other.

Sometimes in order to make things true you have to believe them first, or at least pretend to for the sake of trust. Tyner can be no progress if we keep fighting each other.

don't get me wrong there are tons of narcissistic people but you gotta give the benefit of the doubt sometimes.

they are, but in the same way anyone buying an iPhone is supporting child labor. A lot of them don't pay enough attention to know, and even more are told they're doing the opposite so many times by charismatic people that pretend to love them that they accept it as truth.

Trust me we are, but things are getting better. There's a lot of good hearts under these MAGA hats. ❤️

half of us hated him before and the other half are already getting pissed off at him not following through on promises. he's gonna have to go somewhere else than Arkansas

I live in Arkansas and Huckabes-Sanders pledging our support for rounding up immigrants right before all these plans go into effect draws a clear line to me. We don't want prisons we want local buisness growth and childcare

this is just another Trump puppet. in the article he says that he talked with Trump about not supporting Ukraine but then says it wasn't Trumps decision. Sure, you're the one deciding to fall in line, Rick. write it off as "a whole big thing" like a husband caught texting cheerleaders

lmao he's literally trying to gaslight the whole world. "uhhh, they fucked it up, they fought us again!" like he's not the biggest bully in the playground pounding a guy with glasses because he's jealous he got Funyuns in his lunch

a man calling a woman "female 🤖" is so demeaning that it's getting to the point of becoming a misogynistic slur. They're taking the humanity away from us and reducing us to our value to them.

Don't give up on anything you want. Picture the world you want to live in and live in it, even if it's fantasy now be a beacon for those with the same fantasy. We're all in this together 🩷🤍🩵