[…] “Revolutions do not allow anyone to play the schoolmaster with them.” – Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, Chapter 4.

I’m a libertarian socialist, a social ecologist, and a humanist, I know my way around Linux, and I’m partial to speculative fiction and TTRPGs.

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  • @accideath No, an organization does not have a conscience. It is not the sum total of the consciences of its owners. It is not a collective person. It is an engine.

    One of the reasons to be clear about this is that you can quite easily find people who believe that Microsoft, for instance, is doing good in the world. I used to work for Microsoft and met career Microsoft people who obviously sincerely believed in it.

    You have to first understand how the engine actually works.


  • @accideath We started by talking about Microsoft, and I was explaining that there’s no such thing as “enough” profit for a capitalist enterprise.

    There are many organizations that are not capitalist enterprises. There are small businesses and cooperatives where the owners deliberately keep profits low. The small business doesn’t have a conscience; the owners may. And it leaves them vulnerable. Small businesses destroyed or absorbed by larger ones is the third oldest story in capitalism.