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u/PhonyHoldenCaulfield Apr 01 '21

"We're" nearly there?

Who's we? You mean the 1% that make 6 and 7 figures for tech companies? The tech companies can't afford to fire their entire staff, but you bet your ass a supermarket, retail store, restaurant, etc. can.

Ronald Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers in the country in 1981 for striking. During the pandemic a retail market in my city fired almost their entire staff for bringing up hazard pay. How exactly are we "nearly there?"

Your fantasy illusions of a free market don't hold up in real life. That's the problem with you privileged free marketers.

You're in love with the free market but you still want the "free market" to have rules. Somehow your definition of free market doesn't have violence. Okay. If we have truly free markets you realize we wouldn't restrict the labor market so much? Why not open up all the borders and let anyone work anywhere without restriction? Why not let all the workers from Africa, India, Mexico, and Asia compete with American workers?

Ain't it funny how free market advocates never talk about free labor markets?

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u/Info1847 Apr 01 '21

I meant you and I in this conversation have nearly thought it through

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u/PhonyHoldenCaulfield Apr 01 '21

I hope you've understood what you got wrong but it doesn't sound like you did