🧐 Support socialism? Don't use an iPhone! ❗️ How often our like-minded people have to hear this low-grade mocking argument from defenders of the market economy and capitalist monopolies. We break it down for you in a short piece. 📌 First, what about the labour of Indian, Vietnamese and Chinese workers who assemble and create this technology? Fine, and what about the international conglomerate of scientists working on the development of the technologies necessary to create any electronic device? Even in terms of organizing processes, capitalists cannot defend themselves: the owners of large joint-stock companies, which most corporations are, do not take part in management, but merely receive dividends at annual meetings. The whole organization is carried by middle and lower-level managers, who are also hired workers. Thus, any technology of the capitalist era is the result of social production. 📌 Second, technologies develop under any system. Moreover, they are often created in different parts of the world independently of each other — take at least the well-known example of Popov's and Marconi's radio. The fact that the capitalist system created the predatory and humiliating right of intellectual property, forcing inventors to sell the ability to dispose of their creations to money giants and allowing others' achievements to be registered as one's own by the mere fact of registration — this is a drawback, not an advantage. If anything, let us recall that the light bulb of Edison's wallet, which marked the beginning of the age of electricity in the West, is the light bulb of the Serbian inventor and socialist Tesla. 📸 So don't listen to the cave people defending outdated social relations. Use iPhones, computers, AI and other technological products of the modern era to your health. The development of productive forces is the engine of social progress, the foundation of a new formation. #SOVINTERN_EXPLAINS ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN