If I cannot take away others' treats and hoard them for myself, am I free? If I cannot enclose the commons for my own gain, is there property at all? :thonk:
I think it's Sovereign Citizen stuff mixed with a healthy dose of "independent contractor" experience/propaganda.
The way the gig economy is organized is to turn every person into a corporation (after turning all corporations into people with Citizens United). The whole idea is to muddy the waters between personal and private property as when all personal property is used to generate wages, it becomes something subject to capitalist expropriation.
I don't even know how to parse his upside down take of the Manifesto where wages are exploiting the bosses and collective property is no property.
If I cannot take away others' treats and hoard them for myself, am I free? If I cannot enclose the commons for my own gain, is there property at all? :thonk:
I think it's Sovereign Citizen stuff mixed with a healthy dose of "independent contractor" experience/propaganda.
The way the gig economy is organized is to turn every person into a corporation (after turning all corporations into people with Citizens United). The whole idea is to muddy the waters between personal and private property as when all personal property is used to generate wages, it becomes something subject to capitalist expropriation.
Libertarians "commies want to take away our toothbrushes and only the capitalists should be able to do that!"