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Why the employer-employee relationship is based on theft and all companies should be worker-controlled - “Neo-Abolitionism: Towards Abolishing the Institution of Renting Persons”

https://youtu.be/c2UCqzH5wAQ

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it's important enough to make a video about, it's important enough to write a textual summary about.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

"here's my manifesto. don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe"

[–] jlou@mastodon.social 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'll write one. The talk argues that employment contract is invalid due to inalienable rights. Inalienable means can't be given up even with consent. Workers' inalienable rights are rooted in their joint de facto responsibility in the firm for using up inputs to produce outputs. By the norm that legal and de facto responsibility should match, workers should get the corresponding legal responsibility, but in employment, workers as employees get 0% while employer gets 100% of results of production