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I'm chill with safety nets for poor people and regulations on large companies
what I consider far left is when people start saying that the govt should own everything and there shouldn't be private property. that's an extreme and I am against that.
edit: all of you downvoters are actually far left commies and I'm completely correct
Communists ain't taking away my beaten up electric bass and my microwave oven
One of my friends described it as there's difference between private property and personal property. Your toothbrush is personal property. No one cares about that. Your factory where you assemble widgets is private property, where you're paying people to convert labor into stuff you can sell.
I should read more left-wing theory. It made sense when he explained it.
How does that apply to things like computers? My personal PC can also double up as a server from which I run the applications that I sell to people. The PC is the means of production, and it is mine, but I don't necessarily write all the code myself.
I'm not sure!
I'd guess maybe the code would be open source, or at least freely shared among everyone who works on it. Then anyone can use their personal computer for the code, like anyone could use their personal guitar to play a song you wrote.
The computer can then remain personal, and the code itself is treated like the means of production that is collectively owned