> I mean, what are the means of production in companies like CD Project Red?
The means to deploy knowledge.
This ranges from a robust social safety net (healthcare, childcare, housing, food, etc) to as you say laptops and workstations.
> Employees can easily afford them.
For a very specific set of Employees, this is true. For others the outlay for even a derelict hand-me-down laptop is the difference between making this months rent and not.
> Since we've moved beyond the factory-based model of capitalism
The factory isn't making "widgets" anymore, but it's still there and it's making /something/.
> it's become clear that it's not the control of means of production that is the central issue
Owning the means has, is, and will be the central issue until we are post scarcity.
The means to deploy knowledge. This ranges from a robust social safety net (healthcare, childcare, housing, food, etc) to as you say laptops and workstations.
> Employees can easily afford them.
For a very specific set of Employees, this is true. For others the outlay for even a derelict hand-me-down laptop is the difference between making this months rent and not.
> Since we've moved beyond the factory-based model of capitalism
The factory isn't making "widgets" anymore, but it's still there and it's making /something/.
> it's become clear that it's not the control of means of production that is the central issue
Owning the means has, is, and will be the central issue until we are post scarcity.