• agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    True. But generally I think giant companies cause more systemic problems than they solve. So maybe we don’t really need them.

    After we die back to a manageable level from climate change we should try to remember that and prohibit it happening again.

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      1 year ago

      We don’t really need giant companies? Ok, sure… personally I like my high tech options these large companies offer, and their ability to offer lower prices thanks to the economics of scale. If you want to pay more for everything then feel free to go to small companies, personally I prefer to pay less for the same stuff from large companies.

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        1 year ago

        Meanwhile the downsides are invasion of privacy, destruction of the environment, poor treatment of workers and on and on.

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          1 year ago

          If employees are treated so poorly they would leave, it’s not like we force people to keep their job. If you prefer to pay more, it’s your choice to buy from smaller companies.

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            1 year ago

            No, it isnt their choice, and yes, you dontorce people to keep their jobs. The constant stealing of value and hoovering it towards yourselves keeps people bound to a neofuedal system. This is ABNORMAL. It is the EXACT OPPOSITE of a prosperous economy. The system you espouse is a PROVEN FAILURE. We have decades of tax law to PROVE THAT YOU ARE A FAILURE and not at all a success.

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              Everybody is free to leave and free to find new jobs, im not sure where you get the idea that isn’t the case.

              Also how is it stealing value to pay less than the profits made? You realize a company has to make profits to survive, right?

              How is the US arguably the most successful country on the planet if stuff is really as bad as you say it is? The US is far from perfect, but it’s impossible to deny it’s one of the best places to be and people risk everything trying to get in wanting a better life.

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                I get that idea because tax breaks allowed big companies to put small ones out of business, therefore eliminating competing jobs. THATS why they arent free to leave.

                All your responses tell us that you are really, REALLY insulated from the real world. You dont know anything about business or economies; you only know what you uave been able to take freely.

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                  1 year ago

                  Unless that’s part of the agreement (pretty sure it isn’t) then they are free to do what they want, especially if the government becomes hostile to them.

                  You are living in fairy land and way outside the realm of reality. What you want isn’t realistic, and it doesn’t matter how badly you or everyone else wants it. I’m being realistic here, not falling deep into fantasy land.

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                Also, I nitice everyone who says people are coming here for a better life aee also the same ones who say close the borders because its all lazy welfare criminals. You people need to make up your goddamn mind; are there plenty of jobs to compete for, or do they only exist for multibillion dollar corporations? Which is it??

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                  What other reason are they coming here for it it isn’t a better life? Who is saying anything differently?

                  I’m not against legal immigration, I’m just against the illegal kind, we have to control who and how many come in.

                  I’m not sure who you think you are talking about with “you people”, but I don’t think I’m part of it.

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                1 year ago

                Stealing value occurs when profits are exhibitant while paying less than the inflation-adjusted minimum wage while having the jobs market cornered.

                It is amazing how little you know but are so convinced that you’re smart.