• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean, the counter-argument is that nothing is stopping you from creating such a co-op today. You not doing it is seen as a point in favor of capitalism/ruling class.

    Show them wrong?

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      2 days ago

      Funding is stopping me. Lack of investment money to get started. Access to capital.

      I don’t have the luxury to stop being an employee, even momentarily because I need the income

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          1 day ago

          You seem to not understand the difference between an investment and a loan

          I have applied to a few accelerator programs and haven’t gotten a response

          One thing is to get money in exchange for ownership of the company and the other one is to get money that has to be paid back no matter what

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              14 hours ago

              Yes I will take marginal amount of risk but no I won’t gamble everything

              Some people get the opportunity to try things risk free, and others need to risk everything so if they fail the consequences are very negative

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              It’s different kind of risk when failure means you may not eat or become homeless.

              The rich do not incur that kind of risk when they engage in “entrepreneurial-ship”

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        Which is precisely the argument they give for why capitalists are needed, and thus warrant recompense (at the expense of the worker).

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          That’s not a natural outcome. That’s an artificially created made up barrier. That does not justify capitalists. That shows how they have purposefully rigged the system to be reliant on them.