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When you fire 500,000 highly-paid workers, and distribute half their pay to dramatically raise the wages of 5,000,000 workers in very poor places and the other
by handrous 5y ago
When you fire 500,000 highly-paid workers, and distribute half their pay to dramatically raise the wages of 5,000,000 workers in very poor places and the other half to 50 extremely rich capitalists, you've "expand[ed] the number of good jobs in the world" and "dramatically improv[ed] the qualify of life for millions [...] of people".
It's hard to even argue against, ethically—except that, conveniently, the people most vocally pushing it always seem to be in a "heads I win, tails you lose" position and are never the ones who will lose anything to make it happen. Usually quite the opposite.