• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Other way around. They’re capitalists but don’t support the free market. So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere with patent-infringing sales.

    And I’d argue that capitalism is an inherently bad idea, even in theory. Nobody deserves free rent just for owning something, like land or natural resources. Property manager is a job, landlord is not.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere

      We should take a step back and recognize that they want the government to interfere by recognizing and enforcing their ownership of the factory in the first place.