It's funny because it's the dominant system and any other proposed system would handle the respective situation worse on average but is highly situational. You get into arguments that devolved into, "well, there's massive starvation and war but at least we are all equal"
On what grounds do you think that it's worse for Workers to democratically control production, rather than a class of owners?
Do you think crops care about who shares ownership of them, and kill themselves if they are shared, rather than owned by 1 dude that employs other people to harvest it?
It's funny cause it's true.
It's funny because it's the dominant system and any other proposed system would handle the respective situation worse on average but is highly situational. You get into arguments that devolved into, "well, there's massive starvation and war but at least we are all equal"
On what grounds do you think that it's worse for Workers to democratically control production, rather than a class of owners?
Do you think crops care about who shares ownership of them, and kill themselves if they are shared, rather than owned by 1 dude that employs other people to harvest it?
This doesn't really address what he said.