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Actually there’s a paywall for dying too.
The term of the day is: Artificial scarcity
Commodifying only works through exclusion. If you want to be pro inclusion, you must be contra capitalism.
I don’t think many anti-capitalists suggest abolishing currency entirely. We don’t want people filling swimming pools with cheese and diving into it.
Currency will have its use during socialism and even early communism, most likely, but moving beyond production for exchange and into production for use makes currency eventually superfluous.
I don’t think many anti-capitalists suggest abolishing currency entirely.
Why don’t you think that? You’re right that abolishing currency isn’t implied by abolishing capitalism, but plenty of anti-capitalists advocate for eventually abolishing money in any form (I assume that’s what you mean by abolishing currency, although there are other interpretations), and some others advocate to abolish it as soon as possible (I believe, although I can’t prove right now, that many intentional communities/communes have done this).
Communism’s long-term aim is ultimately to create a communist society. That is, a public, stateless, classless, moneyless society - goods are distributed by need rather than for wealth.
We don’t want people filling swimming pools with cheese and diving into it.
I actually had to check to make sure some e-celeb hadn’t done this stunt for content. I don’t think currency is what stops people from doing that, just like how for-profit healthcare systems aren’t what’s keeping people from injuring themselves.
Yeah capitalism ≠ currency.
Making sure everyone has access to food, water, shelter and medical care doesn’t mean we have to abolish currency all together.
Lesbian tyrannosaurus rex of the pond, what is your wisdom?
On the other hand, good fences make good neighbors, and paywalls are a way of drawing healthy boundaries. If I write a book I am not donating that book to the world free of charge to use as they please and train an AI to replace me. I would like to be paid for my work somehow. If I and a team of researchers and engineers and finance folks and HR folks and janitors work together to build a vaccine distribution system, we don’t get that for free.
Paywalls are a useful mechanism for ensuring that people aren’t abusing you and your work.
Problem isn’t paywalls. It’s that how you do things matters. If you hoard all the food and paywall it at high prices so you can buy fancy cars, that’s not ok. If you set aside food for a local community supper so that kids can’t use it for their trebuchet practice, that’s sensible.
Bourgeois, poor-hating logic
With copyright bs included (extra bourgeois)
If your food, water, healthcare, housing, etc weren’t paywalled, doing what you love wouldn’t need to be commodified*. If people work on life saving vaccines, they shouldn’t have to worry about how they will pay for things they need. The builder that builds the house of the person developing vaccines shouldn’t have to worry about how they will pay for the things they need. The person cutting lumber for the builder shouldn’t have to worry about how they will pay for the things they need.
*the caveat here is that the work either has to be deemed by society to be necessary work or that this is the only work you’re able to do or if “the thing you love” isn’t writing think pieces trying to destroy this system of de-commodification.
