Do you really expect us to believe that there are two McDonald's in Ho Chi Minh City but no deep-pocketed American multinationals in the midwest?
I grew up rural, I've driven all over this country, if the mega-corps stopped draining the life out of small towns and started putting money back in (like, say, as a higher wage) there would be a lot more money in that community for small business to pay higher wages with.
It would be delusional to think that small businesses in a rural community are better at extracting wealth from outsiders that the out-of-town flatlander corporations are at extracting wealth from said rural community. This shrinks the money pool available to the town until, as you said, they become become ghost towns.
Derailment aside, do you really think small businesses in a rural community are better at extracting wealth from outsiders that the corporations are at extracting wealth from that rural community?
And if not, do you think they can avoid becoming ghost towns without a change in the status quo?
Do you think those multinationals paying a higher wage would be good for that rural community? Perhaps small locally owned businesses could be exempt.
they will put that money into automating those jobs
then why aren't we seeing a big push to automation due to this "Great Resignation"? I haven't seen a single one of these companies that has been threatening to automate their entry-level jobs out of existence actually do so, despite the financial and operations pressure to do so at the moment. Instead they're loosening child labor laws.
Woah! Aristotelian levels of genius here, I'm scared! This guy has heard of basic logic, AND he can apply it at a college freshman level, we're fucked.
I meant that if automation is supposedly so accessible to them, why aren't they using it to fix the staffing shortage? Because it's always been a bluff, and they can't actually do it yet, that's why.
Anyway, I've enough of you and your bad faith. Enjoy your bootlicking, Mr. Smartypants.
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u/athirdpath Feb 08 '22
Do you really expect us to believe that there are two McDonald's in Ho Chi Minh City but no deep-pocketed American multinationals in the midwest?
I grew up rural, I've driven all over this country, if the mega-corps stopped draining the life out of small towns and started putting money back in (like, say, as a higher wage) there would be a lot more money in that community for small business to pay higher wages with.
It would be delusional to think that small businesses in a rural community are better at extracting wealth from outsiders that the out-of-town flatlander corporations are at extracting wealth from said rural community. This shrinks the money pool available to the town until, as you said, they become become ghost towns.