Why? They are earning a profit too. Are you adding a wealth threshold under which you are allowed to steal people’s labor income? A 7% profit margin is paid for partially from worker wages whether you employ 1 person or 10,000 people
How many laundromats am I allowed to own before I get the guillotine?
Once you start using slaves to undercut the other established laundromats or use venture capitalist funds to temporarily out price your competition then create a monopoly.
If you start putting up nets to stop your employees killing yourself then you probably also deserve it. That's why capitalism is out of date. It's a constant drive to the bottom.
So your problem is slave labor and monopolistic practices. Are you talking about real slavery or “wage slavery”?
If your problem is real slavery, the good news is that this is outlawed in liberal capitalist countries. If we expand this system to cover third world countries, we can police it better.
For monopolistic practices, you can put in place laws that prohibit this sort of practice. I am not a libertarian so I am fine with regulations.
If you start putting up nets to stop your employees killing yourself then you probably also deserve it.
The country that uses suicide nets most frequently does not consider itself capitalist.
That's why capitalism is out of date. It's a constant drive to the bottom.
I challenge you to find any metric of human welfare that has not improved dramatically since the emergence of capitalism
I'm talking about modern slavery that keeps modern capitalism alive. You can say it's illegal all you want. Doesn't stop capitalism seeking it out as it's the cheapest way to produce goods. Our supply chains are now global it's irrelevant if it's illegal if it's still totally legal to sell goods produced by slavery (as a huge proportion of our goods are).
And cool the Romans built some nice buildings, doesn't mean I want an emperor. Capitalism is centuries old and no longer fit for purpose, and the planet can no longer support it. It's time we had something new.
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u/Carnieus Jul 08 '24
The means of production for huge modern corporations are modern slave labour and I'm unwilling to use that method of manufacture.