• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, so it’s not just that you’re selling a human necessity for a premium over market rates, but also getting huge government subsidies to deepen that profit margin.

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      2 months ago

      The privatization of the common took place in many other economic regimes, e.g. feudalism, slavery, mercantilism, …

      Capitalism is about the privatization of capital