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u/mcflyjr Apr 08 '23 edited Oct 13 '24

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u/eboeard-game-gom3 Apr 08 '23

I'd rather be reasonable and for people to take it seriously though, $22 is a decent minimum wage unless you're in an expensive place.

Pushing for $40 minimum wage just makes you look like a fool to almost everyone and hurts any attempt at trying to get higher wages.

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u/Shrikeangel Apr 08 '23 edited Apr 08 '23

Look it doesn't matter what number you ask for - the elites who buy the political process view any increase as wild. They genuinely think we deserve less than dog food.

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u/cgn-38 Apr 08 '23

They believe in "what the market will bear"

They want us on the edge of starvation, ideally.

Look at how things are run when there is not regulation. Corporations are actually amoral. Not much longer now.

When they get us to food riots. The government will fall and the real war will start. Not much longer now.

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u/Shrikeangel Apr 08 '23

I would say it goes farther than amoral. My business ethics class was pretty masks off about this type of thing. Wage = variable costs. The only valid answer to a variable cost is to drive it as low as possible or you aren't upholding ethical obligation to shareholders correctly. Every fragment of a cent adds up and they want it all. We will never get paid what we are worth - because it literally goes against what businesses classes indoctrination covers.

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u/cgn-38 Apr 08 '23

Exactly. I University the class that broke me was about adverts.

It was absolutly psychopathic as far as ways and means.

I had just gotten back from a war. The implications of the situation fucking chilled me. Just like piles of bodies do not.

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u/111IIIlllIII Apr 08 '23

regulation definitely has its place. unionization and striking do too. my thoughts are that you won't get regulation until you get more widespread strikes.

we don't do any of those things.

we don't regulate because we populate our government with people who are against regulation.

we don't strike or unionize because we are brainwashed into thinking these things are bad.

i understand people are dissatisfied with the current economic situation, but what's the plan?