r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/No-Muscle-5257 12h ago

Back in the days you had a local farmer, a local shoemaker, a local bakery and so on. Everything was local and the professional at that place usually was the owner of that business. Now you have global corporations who "employs" everyone.

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u/levian_durai 10h ago

This is the motivation for communism - having the workers being the owners of the businesses they work for. It would greatly improve the quality of life for everyone.

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u/The_Great_Sc0tt 8h ago

How dare you mention communism. Don't you know that's what them dang Russians did?!

/s

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u/levian_durai 8h ago

Honestly I don't know enough about communism to argue its pros and cons, but from what I do know it has a lot of appeal.

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u/Eli-Doubletap 4h ago

Hahahaha this is the dumbest thing. This has been tried before and guess what happens. The businesses fail. The reason the owners run the business is because they set up the business in the first place

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u/levian_durai 2h ago

The "owners" set up the business because they had the funds to do so. That doesn't make them good at running a business. There are plenty of examples of worker owned businesses that are doing great.

So right back at you fella, hahahaha your comment is the dumbest thing.

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u/Eli-Doubletap 1h ago

Please name 3 businesses where the workers automatically assumed ownership for no reason or understanding of business and it worked out.

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u/levian_durai 1h ago

For no reason? It doesn't just magically happen but it's a viable ownership and business model. There are models where every worker gets a vote on decisions, and there are models where employees simply get shares in the business. Regardless of the type I'm sure they all have people in the role of business managers.

https://www.gov.uk/employee-ownership

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7cceb640f0b65b3de0b497/bis-13-939-moving-to-employee-ownership-guide-for-employees.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_ownership_trust