[FRIAM] capitalism vs. individualism

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Circling back to things I missed.  This has always irritated me. What, pragmatically, is the difference between property and "the means of production"? Sure, I know there's a body of mental gymnastics surrounding the difference. But it strikes me as an arbitrary distinction. Any privately owned *thing* can be included in the means of production. It's a difference of degree, not kind. Owning 1 screw driver gives you a little production potential. Owning a million of them gives you lots of production potential (though, admittedly, the scaling isn't linear).

So, what pragmatic reason is there to make the distinction you make here?

On 11/6/19 4:08 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> Glen loosely defines capitalism as *private ownership of property* but i want to further refine it to be private ownership of *the means of production*, ...
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