• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      Capitalism, Socialism and Communism are only how the means of production/trade is owned. Wage labor can still exist.

      In capitalism, the means of production and trade are owned by private entities. Worker trade their labour for a set wage. All the profit goes to the owner/shareholder.

      In socialism, the worker owns the means of production and trade. If a coop is more profitable than the next one, the worker of the first coop get more money. The profits are distributed amongst the workers that produced the goods. The workers own the coop/company.

      In communism, the state owns the mean of production. The profits of the coop/company goes back to the state and are then redistributed in the society.

      Socialism can still have investment, but the returns necessarily be money. A certain good is needed. The worker pool their money to build a factory and make a successful product. The workers then get a return on their investment (they make more money than they initially had).