supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoPirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?message-squaremessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down123
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squarePirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square32linkfedilink
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·3 months agoCapitalism by definition runs on legal framework. If you’re not adhering to the legal framework, you’re not engaging in capitalism
minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·3 months agoAccording to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 months agoA legal framework is a monopoly on violence.
minus-squareDoc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoReally wish more people understood this.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·3 months ago According to who? That’s the basic definition of capitalism: Free market + legal framework that enforces agreements and private property.
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoThis whole post is just a political “capitalism bad” statement. It might as well be about bank robbers.
Capitalism by definition runs on legal framework. If you’re not adhering to the legal framework, you’re not engaging in capitalism
According to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.
A legal framework is a monopoly on violence.
Really wish more people understood this.
That’s the basic definition of capitalism: Free market + legal framework that enforces agreements and private property.
This whole post is just a political “capitalism bad” statement. It might as well be about bank robbers.