• invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    If he’s managing to provide a living for 4 people and those people are in a situation where they don’t feel exploited, I don’t really see how what he’s doing is why different than say Pravda pre-revolution, or any number of other communist newspapers/periodicals over the years that until the revolution had to support their workers through wages and sales of a product.

    I mean, Marx was only able to write Capital because Engles had money from profiting off the labor of others. How is this any worse than that?

    • he’s managing to provide a living for 4 people

      Quit being a lib. Those 5 people are providing the living. If he is extracting profits from them then they are exploited. Full stop.

      I support secondthought i can also understand why its not perfect. This is the critical support.

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        7 months ago

        Those people are providing a living for themselves, all I’m saying is that working with someone on a project where they’re very involved and you’re all passionate about it and you don’t have to balance that with another full time job is nice.

        Until the workers come out and say that they feel that JT is exploiting them or using them this whole relationship seems to be fine compared to the alternative of working for a company that directly seeks to exploit you to the maximum extent.

        I’m sure cooperative ownership isn’t out of the question for this project, but there isn’t really much money in communist propaganda so it’s amazing that they’re able to support 4 salaries doing it.