Comment on Pirates 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?

BlackLaZoR@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  According to who? I have seen zero evidence in my life capitalism requires a legal framework, it simply requires the threat of violence.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A legal framework is a monopoly on violence.

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    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Really wish more people understood this.

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  • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    According to who?

    That's the basic definition of capitalism: Free market + legal framework that enforces agreements and private property.

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• AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This whole post is just a political "capitalism bad" statement. It might as well be about bank robbers.

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