• MrMeanJavaBean@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If a business cannot survive paying its employees a liveable wage then it should not exist. Businesses that do not pay a livable wage but can afford to are exploiting its employees.

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      10 months ago

      Imagine thinking the employees are the entitled ones when running a business and feeling entitled to their labor at your price.

      I’m sorry, who’s the entitled one? Those businesses should 100% not exist. It’s called having a shitty business model.

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      10 months ago

      I hear this all the time but the reality is probably a third of us work at places that are barely surviving. Imagine if all of those people were suddenly unemployed.

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        10 months ago

        If companies stealing the value of people’s labor shut down, opening the way for new employee owned companies, that would be fantastic

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          10 months ago

          This is great in theory but there are plenty of companies that struggle to succeed in the current realities of real estate costs, labor costs, regulatory compliance expenses etc. Not every organization has people leeching all of the profits, and even many good ones are struggling to stay afloat right now. Just because a company is employee owned doesn’t guarantee profits to share.