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If the business fails, the workers lose their income and their shares are just as worthless as anyone else. The workers should have shares. (Or some other mechanism so there's not a handful of fat cats living a life of luxury due to the labor of many others)
The person who started the business can always go work somewhere else. It's not like he's put to death. And if the concern is that "someone who loses their money might suffer and die" then we should fix that problem more generally, because there are many other ways to end up there.
That wasn't the question or the point. A fairer system off the top of my head is profit sharing with a union. But that wasn't the point.
If someone says "X is bad for A, B, C" saying that Z isn't better is not a rebuttal. We haven't gotten that far. We're trying to reach agreement that X is bad. Then we can talk about replacing or fixing it. Maybe Z does suck.
It's a common mistake. Someone will be like "windows sucks" and someone will be like "well apple is expensive", just blazing by on that express train of thought. Take the local train.
So you have generational trauma skewing your views.
Free speech has absolutely nothing to do with this economic system. And let me remind you of all the people fired because their employer didn't like what they said, where they risk falling into poverty and worse.
The way capitalism manifests in the US is a set of tiny tyrannies. Your boss tells you when you can piss, what you can wear, what you can say in public. Maybe you don't care because you are the boss. You give your people time off?
And the dream is for you to make it so big that you don't have to work anymore. Your business expands. You buy out or out compete everyone else. You sit back and let other people work. Then you raise prices, lower wages, and buy a private jet.
The end state of capitalism is a rich asshole who doesn't work, and a shitty world for everyone else. Maybe it takes years. But enshittification is pretty widely understood.
Maybe a worker owned collective would enshittify, too. But as a small consolation, you'd at least have thousands of rich people instead of a billionaire.
Now, I wrote this on the toilet so it's not the most coherent or polished. I appreciate you taking the time to go back and forth even though we disagree.