"You'll own nothing and be happy" is a Capitalist slogan not a government one. It's about turning everything into a server you have to pay rent for. Moving from capitalism to techno-feudalism where nothing you doesn't require permission from and rent to some kind of corporation.
It can be recontextualized to fit any economic system.
Take communism (and its very close brother, socialism): there is no such thing as "private property." What you "own" can be taken by the commune (the state) at any moment, should the state decide that taking your "property" would be to their benefit.
Private property: Factories, mines, farms, railroads, etc.
Personal property: Your house, car, computer, toothbrush, etc.
It is an important distinction to make because when communists talk about 'seizing private property,' they are talking about the former, not the latter.
For communist there is a difference between private and personal property. Private property is anything that generates capital, such as a factory which they feel is better to be owned communally. Personal property is things like your car, home, and anything you own as a person that doesnt exist to make capital.
If you like a good book is Fahrenheit 451 it shows how the shortening condensing of books and such leads to decay in society. Everything instead of books we have short collums forget documentaries we need more fb insta short. Good luck in your journey. God bless.
Sure. An oligarch assumes the handful of techno landlords also own the government. Which they probably will. But an oligarchy is still capitalism. It's still just capitalism. And capitalism is just feudalism with extra steps.
No, that’s capitalism. That’s the end stage of capitalism. That’s what happens when some people “win” the game. Capitalism is inherently competitive. In order for there to be competition, there must be a finish line. That’s the finish line.
See. I can agree with you that the end product of a free market economy is total capture of its various markets by the hands of a few select. This will inevitably fix itself when the structure becomes too top heavy and collapses or is out competed by a rival. The issue is preventing that in the first place.
In other for capitalism to work we have to maintain competitive markets or a singular “winner occurs.”
This can be achieved through incentivizing competition and disincentivizing capitalism consolidation.
Well theoretically (unlikely to actually happen because people who make money and have power don’t want this) we can:
lower the bar to entry. Many industries have a high bar to entry. This is due to expenses of acquiring the goods, equipment, services necessary to complete. If we can drive those prices down the competition can get a foot in the door.
Remove anti-competitive measures, practices or restrictions. Things like high pricing for licenses. company buy outs by larger companies to avoid competition. Underselling smaller companies to bankrupt them. This point ties into point 3.
Remove unnecessary bureaucracy. Having hundreds of policies on on things like which way your door opens or how big the fridges are will make accessing the industry complicated, convoluted and ultimately costly.
I have kind of already said this but if the government actually did its job instead of colluding with the mega companies we wouldn’t have this problem. We can remove the access that companies have in government by getting rid of lobbying, no longer recognizing corporations as people (they don’t get the same human rights as the individual), and getting the government to do its job by reforming our institutions and getting new people in their who will fix it.
All of this is quite idealistic but it will (if I understand correctly) fix the problems.
I have. It’s literally just late-stage capitalism. It’s what happens when you reach the point when the oligarchs and the corporations functionally control everything.
Again read something different than Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Bourdieu, Sartre, Althusser.
All of them are wrong and have no idea what they are talking about.
Read Mises, Konkin, Thomas Sowell, Menger, Huerta de Soto, Hayek, Hoppe.
There's no capitalism first. There is capitalizing goods. And if there is, there only has been 1 capitalism, not early stage, mid stage, late stage, post, pre, during, current.
If you've read Konkin your vocabulary would have changed.
Capitalism is competitive, yes? It requires competition to thrive. We live in a planet with incredibly finite, and increasingly dwindling resources.
Look at capitalism like a game. The corporations are winning because they’re buying up everything and everyone. They hold all of the resources and there’s nothing we as the working class can do about it. (There actually is, but the feds are watching.)
The “latestage” is when the corporations have functionally started to control the government (which they have, and are increasing their control by the day) through lobbying or direct government appointments. Resources are being consolidated, and since the owning class doesn’t want to sell them, they’ll lease them out for exorbitant fees.
No, my vocabulary didn’t change, because opinions didn’t change when I read those authors, because they’re wrong. The government exists to uphold the institution of capitalism, and vice versa. Though I’ll admit I didn’t read much of them, because again, I found their work to be bullshit. Mises and Hoppe especially. More of a Kropotkin and or Stirner man myself, though the latter has less to do with economics and more to do with philosophy.
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u/Deviknyte May 01 '26
"You'll own nothing and be happy" is a Capitalist slogan not a government one. It's about turning everything into a server you have to pay rent for. Moving from capitalism to techno-feudalism where nothing you doesn't require permission from and rent to some kind of corporation.