HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: Even if it were more complex and demanding than a kiln, the principle would remain ...
Even if it were more complex and demanding than a kiln, the principle would remain the same:
I make pots. While I am making pots, a farmer grows food to feed me. While the farmer is growing food, she is clad by a garment worker. While the garment worker is weaving, he is shod by the shoemaker. While the shoemaker is cobbling, they cook their meals in a pot I made. Each worker delivers product to the next, expecting that each will in turn be supplied by those other workers, in a giant and never-ending network of credit.
Those relationships can be organized using money, but they don’t have to be, and even if they do involve money, they don’t have to look anything like capitalism. The capitalist does not produce but *interposes* themself into those networks of credit, skimming off the top by pretending to own the whole effort of all those workers. The “creditor” is similarly just a capitalist who has established a toll booth on the creation of credit itself—you can’t extend credit to other workers without first paying a fee to the creditor.
I make pots. While I am making pots, a farmer grows food to feed me. While the farmer is growing food, she is clad by a garment worker. While the garment worker is weaving, he is shod by the shoemaker. While the shoemaker is cobbling, they cook their meals in a pot I made. Each worker delivers product to the next, expecting that each will in turn be supplied by those other workers, in a giant and never-ending network of credit.
Those relationships can be organized using money, but they don’t have to be, and even if they do involve money, they don’t have to look anything like capitalism. The capitalist does not produce but *interposes* themself into those networks of credit, skimming off the top by pretending to own the whole effort of all those workers. The “creditor” is similarly just a capitalist who has established a toll booth on the creation of credit itself—you can’t extend credit to other workers without first paying a fee to the creditor.