It’s a meme

  • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Seize the means of production” is a communist’s rallying cry because they know that they can’t build anything on their own

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Who do you think built the means of production in the first place? I’ve never seen a rich guy in a suit laying down bricks all day to build a factory.

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      1 year ago

      The workers built the means, they just never owned them.

      Let me guess, you think Steve Jobs made the iPhone because he pulled it out of his pocket on a stage and took the credit of engineers standing on the shoulders of publically funded basic research? Steve jobs couldn’t engineer his way out of a wet paper bag, and that is well documented.

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        1 year ago

        I think Steve Jobs made the iphone by coordinating and funding a team of engineers to develop and produce the phone, then marketed it using his own name for brand recognition.

        He could not have done it without those engineers and workers, and they would not have made the phone without Jobs.