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Profit should not be a thing in housing, healthcare, or food until everyone is housed, cared for, and fed.
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y ago
Profit should not be a thing in housing, healthcare, or food until everyone is housed, cared for, and fed.
- lazide 4y agoWhy should someone go through all the effort to do that if they aren’t getting paid for it?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y agoThe workers get a livable wage. The organization breaks even.
- lazide 4y agoWho is going to organize said organization and deal with all the BS (petty and not) to make a livable wage, if they can do simpler and get the same, or do the same and get paid more? A few will, but most won’t. The amount of risk to develop and the type of skills required are non trivial.
- snapplebobapple 4y agoa livable wage is a really bad metric because the definition of living is extremely subjective. We had it right initially with market derived wages. This talk of living wages is keeping us from real discussions about market power abuse/monopsony/oligopsony situations in the labor market that would improve labor market efficiency a lot more than arguing over what a living wage is.
- xwdv 4y agoWithout profit many more will go unhoused, unfed, and definitely uncared for.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoA nice platitude. What are you doing to achieve it? My guess is nothing, because you have bills to pay, like everyone else. The reality is that if all those things were provided population would grow unchecked until resources ran out. It’s not sustainable. On the other extreme, we can do a lot better than artificial scarcity.