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Institute law that give employees greater than 50% shares of any large company they were work for. So, the capitalist class can't actually extract wealth away from the worker class.



There are many ways to snap ones fingers and right the ship, very few ways to do it in practice. Imagine trying to get such a law passed, you'd have the entire worlds economy outadvertising and out lobbying you.


> We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Ursula K Le Guin [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/ursula-k-le-gu...


In practice, is there anything different between a king and someone who was born into a wealthy family? Not really. We might have severed the idea of divinity choosing who receives these resources (plenty of billionaires praise god of course for their success all that being said) but we have not done anything about the issue of a small chosen few accumulating the bulk of the gains of our productivity.




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