Panini

I always get a wave of nostalgia to when I was playing AC4&5 when I was like, 8 and 11ish? when I see stuff like this. One of my first tastes of “was is really fucking bad and also warplanes are cool as fuck”

This one can be a very useful bit of media analysis, but yeah it’s not great that it’s becoming the default.

Even in a non-profit employee-owned cooperative, there will be external costs that will have to [be] funded from somewhere.

That somewhere being reduced labor compensation no matter what, meaning the labor is just worth that much less. That doesn’t entitle an “owner” to jack shit.

It becomes exploitation when that ratio becomes disproportionate and the ownership starts extracting more than their fair share.

Their fair share is nothing. A disproportionate ratio is any ratio greater than 0. No labor should be “owned” by anyone not performing it. There should not be “ownership” involved. Organizational leaders, sure. And they should also just be regular laborers, paid in the same manner.

Under capitalism, it is almost by definition. Glad you’re having a better time than the rest of us, but your personal anecdote is irrelevant to society at large.

You would not be employed if it wasn’t profitable. Which also means the surplus value of your labor, above and beyond what you’re being compensated for, is going to your employer. That’s exploitation. It’s mandatory in most employment under capitalist economics.

…okay? that is irrelevant to the conversation at hand

That was sorta the intended result here, to emphasize that to move away from cars without heavily sacrificing their QOL, most people need better public transportation and non-car options than their city is currently providing them. So the city needs to make changes to reduce dependency.

be the monkey

that achieves Hamlet