• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Private ownership ≠ capitalism.

    Right. It’s private ownership of capital; aka the means of production. You’re saying that data should be owned because it can be used productively. That’s exactly capitalism for capitalism’s sake.

    This is a typical economically right-wing approach. There is a problem, so you just create a new kind of property and call it done. The magic of the market takes care of it, or something. I don’t understand why one would expect a different result from trying the same thing.

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      5 months ago

      The point of it is to redistribute wealth using the existing capitalist framework, which is a left-wing endeavour.