The expression was popularize in the obsolete context of Marx's idea but it was a time where the main mean of production shaping society was the huge factory, which made craftmen obsolete and slow way of producing. Owning the mean of production isn't about going full communism, before communism is was call 'craftmanship'. So where I am what I see is just corporation short circuit low class people to sells to each other and to the wealthy, in a robot/3d printer economy, the main resources shift back to main raw resources and high tech high finition that are not possible in joe shmoe backyard. In some way it's already practice here, when people have some garden, there is a kind of peer to peer solidarity based market (not monetary but basically a gift society based on reciprocity) parallel to the monetary/industrial market, and it helped a lot when there is financial huge crisis sweeping through (as it happen often here since we are considered so insignificant, though it is endangered because for the same reason wealthy have polluted the land with kepone). Owning the mean of production mean you own your own survival, it's not about the market, it's about making as obsolete as possible, and micro economy can still happen as some people will specialize their personal farm toward certain set up, it's less efficient (in the absolute grand scale) than a dedicated big factory, but also you have less dependency on infrastructure. This has devastating effect on the culture here.īut more importantly, the sure way to anticipate social revolution is huge modification of the mean of production, feudal society were well established for millennia, they didn't foresee their downfall with the advent of the factory, which move the primary mean of producing from the land ownership to the factory, and therefore shift the power, similarly we had seen the advent of the middle class with the creation of consumerist society and the home appliance, which shift societies from factory to services and allow people to move up the social ladder up until recently.

And that's discounting the glass ceiling we all met once we go abroad. Click to expand.Really depend on where on earth you live on, we barely register on a map and have 40% of unemployment despite the highest rate of education of the country, in fact the rate is so high there was a scandal because we found out the professor where rating student harsher than the national standard, which mean the rate of education is based on skew average.

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