• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s just simply not true. You can go buy some shares of Disney right now, and you’ll see that you get the benefits of being an owner.

    It’s a spectrum of how much you own vs how much you contact to do labor.

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      1 year ago

      Owning stock in Disney would give me a share in the profits. I could also possibly vote when Disney lets shareholders do so. As a worker for Disney, I could receive money for selling my time and a portion of the profits via shares. I would thereby be a worker/owner. I would reduce that to worker, but lets entertain worker/owner as a class.

      However as a worker/owner, I would not be able to make decisions that change cost. I would not own anything other than the share which is placing faith in the company. I would still try to do as little work as possible for as much compensation as possible since I am still primarily a worker.

      Maybe my passive income stream will someday overcome the cost associated with meeting my material needs. I could then graduate from worker/owner to owner.

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        1 year ago

        Or, at any time you could start your own business online and sell your labor as a freelancer or consultant.