• J Lou@mastodon.social
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    4 months ago

    Why is the profit motive terrible in your view? What should we replace the profit motive with?

    What is the benefit to pro-market anti-capitalists to challenging that particular preconceived notion? It creates an unnecessary roadblock when pro-market anti-capitalists can just describe themselves as radically democratic liberals, who want to extend democracy into the workplace @memes

    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Incentivizing profit instead of outcome results in power imbalances and enshittification. What was once disruption becomes scientifically engineered to extract as much money from the users as possible.