I'll add that the vast majority of businesses under capitalism are dumb and don't need to exist, shouldn't exist, in fact. They only exist to make their owners money and do nothing but harm everyone else. They can continue to exist because they often hold a monopoly on some essential good, or otherwise offer up a product or service that "repairs" the damage done by another business that does.
Payday loans are the most obvious example. If people had more time and money (AKA paid what they were worth and had control over their own schedule), they wouldn't need to go to some dude for a loan, which will then trap them in debt for god knows how long.
Something like a lawn mowing service is obviously better, but still would be wouldn't need to exist nearly as much if people had the time to mow their own yards, and likely couldn't exist if the people actually doing the yard work were paid a fair share of the "value" they were generating, or if gasoline was priced to include the damage that it was doing to the planet. Yards are often mandatory, too, if you live in a neighborhood, which most people do. Got to love that freedom.
Abolish yards, I guess is my point.
Edit: I don't know enough theory to stand by my point. Hopefully someone else can confirm what I'm trying to say. But "starting a business" is capitalist propaganda. Most of the work that needs to be done to keep humanity alive is already taken care of by a handful of people, but the extra value is sucked by the owner class, forcing us to find smaller and smaller niches to sell either other worthless crap. "Why would anyone want to start a YouTube channel where they have to sell merch just to have a decent living?" is the other side of this question. And the answer is because they would die of homelessness.
I'll add that the vast majority of businesses under capitalism are dumb and don't need to exist, shouldn't exist, in fact. They only exist to make their owners money and do nothing but harm everyone else. They can continue to exist because they often hold a monopoly on some essential good, or otherwise offer up a product or service that "repairs" the damage done by another business that does.
Payday loans are the most obvious example. If people had more time and money (AKA paid what they were worth and had control over their own schedule), they wouldn't need to go to some dude for a loan, which will then trap them in debt for god knows how long.
Something like a lawn mowing service is obviously better, but still would be wouldn't need to exist nearly as much if people had the time to mow their own yards, and likely couldn't exist if the people actually doing the yard work were paid a fair share of the "value" they were generating, or if gasoline was priced to include the damage that it was doing to the planet. Yards are often mandatory, too, if you live in a neighborhood, which most people do. Got to love that freedom.
Abolish yards, I guess is my point.
Edit: I don't know enough theory to stand by my point. Hopefully someone else can confirm what I'm trying to say. But "starting a business" is capitalist propaganda. Most of the work that needs to be done to keep humanity alive is already taken care of by a handful of people, but the extra value is sucked by the owner class, forcing us to find smaller and smaller niches to sell either other worthless crap. "Why would anyone want to start a YouTube channel where they have to sell merch just to have a decent living?" is the other side of this question. And the answer is because they would die of homelessness.