A co-op or a partnership? But how will the non-productive class make money from it?
- Builders produce food, mine resources, build houses/machines, do research, provide essential services, etc.
- Redistributors take a cut from builders, by providing a non-essential service like salesmen or assistants who call themselves managers, by getting themselves into a position of power where they have many builders work "under" them or simply by holding and "renting" limited resources like housing
I feel like this division is at the core of inequality (money per unit of work only as long as you work vs money for no work in perpetuity). Yet at the same time it's not talked about at all.
Sorry to break this to you but if you think Sales is non-essential, you don't know anything about startups.
Of course you need to sell your product but as a builder you can do it yourself. It's not your specialty so you likely will be worse at it than a dedicated person and will have less time for actual building.
The key is that builders can exist without salesmen. But salesmen without builders have nothing to sell.
I am against some specializations getting paid per unit of work regardless of the market value of their product while other specializations get paid a cut of the market value.
I am against positions of power which allow people who don't produce anything to decide how much other people who do actually produce something get paid.
Etc.
I am fundamentally against inequality.
One who can both build and sell is indeed a rare specimen (unicorn?). I know many builders and less than 10% of them can sell.
You might be missing a whole paradigm that was written about in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th century, to deleterious effects.
Of course it is. You are limited to 168 hours in a week that you can do work.
But there is no limit to the hours that other people can work for you.
Because this can't be that hard to understand even for the average person.
A lot of people who care are unable to do anything about it because representative democracy is too indirect.
And yes, I think a lot of people don't fundamentally understand this, otherwise things like co-ops would be more common.