People show off iPhones as the success of Capitalism, not realizing it'd be a brick without the internet – which is built off Free Software.
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Free Software is one of the only advanced areas of production not controlled by property ownership, but by free association of individuals.
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This free association, which the Capitalists have long called "inefficient", has produced the software that is the backbone of the internet.
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The OS's, server software, databases and tools used to build them. Private property was required for none of it, and only tried to stop it.
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So remember next time some Capitalist brags about their toy: the hard work was done before they got there, through anti-capitialist systems.
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Capitalism is about voluntary exchange. Free software is a form of that. Communism is about preventing voluntarily exchange.
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so when you get thousands of dollars billed for a two-hour hospital visit do you pay voluntarily or under fear of suffering and death?
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>inb4 all the voluntaryists to um, actually this statement
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What "capitalists" called free association inefficient???
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And now it has produced bitcoin, giving everyone an opportunity to exit from the old system.
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You mean half the internet which was started by the hippie bastion called the Dept. of Defense?
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