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People deciding working conditions for others is not absent from all other systems.

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@rah @yogthos That’s literally the system Americans live under right now. It would be best if workers had a say in the place they spend most of their waking hours in!

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Which is an argument nobody made here.

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In response to my comment asserting

Unless you have some argument that capitalism somehow provides some specific cause to enable exploitation which is absent from all other systems …

you stated

capitalism enables exploitation by allowing people who own capital to decide working conditions for people who do not

which appears to be you attempting to make that argument.

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No, the argument being made is that having a handful of oligarchs who own capital make such decisions leads to exploitation. People who have been appointed democratically by the people to represent them deciding such things is a completely different matter. A government in a communist society represents the people, and the means of production are publicly owned by the people. That’s what prevents exploitation that capitalism enables by allowing people to rule over others.

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