How can we understand that something is ours if when we buy it we onlysize the material and not everything that it carries on top? ---- Do wethink about everything that is behind a Coca Cola or do we only thinkthat it is ours? Can we measure everything behind each product orproperty we acquire? ---- Today I may be writing this text on acomputer, of an average brand, which surely had engineers behind itscreation, who in turn, were inspired, advised or instructed by peoplewho have already dedicated time to technology and the creation of thistype. of machines.The typewriter was invented by the Italian Giuseppe Ravizza, who in turnwas inspired by the model of Pietro Conti di Cilavegna's prototype,called Cembalo, and today I am typing on a keyboard that has the samelayout as the machines.It is very likely that Bill Gates or Steve Jobs do not pay a commissionto anyone for the use of this type of keyboard; It is very likely thatthe inventor of the typewriter did not pay commissions to the person whoinvented letters, nor did he pay commissions to the person who inventedlanguage, nor did he pay commissions to the human being for needing toexpress himself or understand himself.How can we not feel like heirs to the need to communicate that resultedin this computer that I had to pay for? How not to be in our humancondition, part of that need to communicate.We can look up and see around us a lot of inventions that carry thebaggage and searches of people that we have no idea about, only what wesee are brands.Let's think about the production of things and the accumulated capital.Why is it more the owner of the product who inherited the brand and notthe one who produces it? We know that the grandfather of the grandfatherof the current owner was able to generate his wealth with the work ofother colleagues who also did not receive a fair response to theperformance of his work.How much accumulated work does our blood have? It destroys me to thinkabout the amount of capital that my great-grandparents, my grandparentsand my parents generated, for whom? Not for me, I have to continueworking for the children of the grandchildren, the great-grandchildren.Property generates more property, capital generates more capital. Ifthere is money to invest, surely we can generate more money. We onlyhave to invest work? So that? To get more work? To generate more capitalfrom others? Thinking about a more equitable reality can be seen as apath backwards, of consensus and agreements, where we can recover thecapital generated by all our ancestors, family or not, classmates, workers.Everything generated is ours, even though today everything has otherowners. That machine that we operate, that taxi that we work as alaborer, are ours.Thinking that we can create, generate and inhabit spaces that do notdeepen this way of consuming and producing is possible. From thecreation of cooperatives or consumer nodes, we can be part of adifferent way of doing things.The only thing we can produce, develop and create for our benefit aloneis the organization. In order for the bosses that have always dominatedus economically to stop repeating themselves, we must take advantage ofwhat is unique to us and that does not belong to the boss we have, whichis the assembly.It is always time to return to the assemblies, no matter when you read this."Every machine has the same story: a long series of sleepless nights andmisery; of disappointments and joys, of partial improvements found byseveral generations of unknown workers who have added to the primitiveinvention those little things without which the most fruitful idea wouldremain sterile. Even more: each new invention is a synthesis resultingfrom a thousand previous inventions in the immense field of mechanicsand industry. Everything is intertwined: science and industry, knowledgeand application. The discoveries and practical achievements that lead tonew inventions, intellectual work and manual work, the idea and thearms. Every discovery, every progress, every increase in the wealth ofhumanity, has its origin in the conjunction of manual and intellectualwork of the past and present. So, with what right does someoneappropriate the smallest part of that immense whole and say: "This isonly mine and not everyone's"? Pyotr Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread -1892SEBASTIÁN MENUTTI - AFFILIATE OF SROV CAPITALhttps://organizacion-obrera.fora.com.ar/2023/11/13/la-propiedad-y-el-invento/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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