• seven_phone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    So now we are actually to the point where we can ask if a corporation or more widely anything at all has any value if it makes no profit.

    There are people in the world who by luck of birth or circumstance have amassed obscene wealth and they after the fact are trying to convince everyone that profit is the only thing of value. These are the real public enemies.

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      2 months ago

      This is the post-scarcity shift. This is how it happens.

      We need to take, by force, those who have too much and give it to those who have too little.

      They will be kicking and screaming. That means we’re doing something right, because they are not our allies.

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      A company can have value without making profit. It can own assets. It has value in its staff.

      Now should it have a valuation like OpenAI? Fuck no!