The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.
> Give 16 year olds the vote because they are historically Labour supporting
> Absolutely nuke any chances of them ever voting for Labour
Masterful gambit Sir Keir
This is similar to Sunak’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill during his final months.
A PM that knows the clock is ticking, so rushes through poorly thought-out policy to create a “legacy” - all at the expense of individual freedoms.
The last sentence is the real meat and potatoes of this.
What's being promoted as a 'social media ban for children', is really an ID check for every adult.
Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.
Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.
Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.
It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.
Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.
That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.
Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.
The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.
Why are investment bankers living in two up two downs in South London that were built for manual labourers?
Because we haven’t built enough luxury housing.
When we don’t build luxury homes, the houses that used to be for the everyman become the preserve of the elite.
And everyone else moves *down* the chain. By building luxury homes we can move everyone *up* that chain.