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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Fri May 31, 2019, 12:42 AM May 2019

If the workers controlled all the farms, factories, and mines ...

... we would control 12% of the US GDP.

What does socialism in a service economy look like?

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If the workers controlled all the farms, factories, and mines ... (Original Post) Recursion May 2019 OP

Not much. elleng May 2019 #1

What an interesting question. I haven't thought about Hortensis May 2019 #2

elleng

(130,646 posts)

1. Not much.

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Fri May 31, 2019, 12:48 AM

May 2019

Bon jour!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

2. What an interesting question. I haven't thought about

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Fri May 31, 2019, 06:00 AM

May 2019

socialism enough to get this far. In information/white collar jobs also, the employees are autonomous production units, not machines. Although of course more is now shifting to supercomputer abilities. I suppose control would be through employment positions, all of which would be communally owned. ?

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