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If you cannot see the asymmetry of power between an individual warehouse worker and Amazon, then everything progressive will sound like forced choice. If you s

by vaidhy 4y ago

If you cannot see the asymmetry of power between an individual warehouse worker and Amazon, then everything progressive will sound like forced choice. If you start from the assumption that people should live and die under reasonable expectations of health, growth and participation in labor, able to bring up their children to aspire to a better living standards than their own, then progressive policies will make sense. If you start from the assumption that people deserve the life they have and everyone can pull themselves from their bootstraps, and only thing people lack is ambition and hard work, then the progressive policies will sound like stealing from the successful people. I personally believe that corporations should exist to serve their customers, their workers and then the shareholders, in that order.

nickpp 4y ago
Actually I want what "progressives" say they want: > people should live and die under reasonable expectations of health, growth and participation in labor, able to bring up their children to aspire to a better living standards But I have enough real-world experience and I've been lied to by enough politicians to know that we will never get that through policies. We can only get it though the same mechanisms that pulled us out of poverty and exploitation and offered us this amazing bounty of choice we are enjoying every day in non-government-controlled-domains: free markets. This is why I support less restrictions and more opportunities for companies and startups. > I personally believe that corporations should exist to serve their customers, their workers and then the shareholders, in that order. I do not believe these are separate classes and instead they should mix together instead: anybody should be able to become shareholder at the company they work or consume from, start their own company or simply work for whomever they want.

by vaidhy 4y ago

nickpp 4y ago

Actually I want what "progressives" say they want: > people should live and die under reasonable expectations of health, growth and participation in labor, able to bring up their children to aspire to a better living standards But I have enough real-world experience and I've been lied to by enough politicians to know that we will never get that through policies. We can only get it though the same mechanisms that pulled us out of poverty and exploitation and offered us this amazing bounty of choice we are enjoying every day in non-government-controlled-domains: free markets. This is why I support less restrictions and more opportunities for companies and startups. > I personally believe that corporations should exist to serve their customers, their workers and then the shareholders, in that order. I do not believe these are separate classes and instead they should mix together instead: anybody should be able to become shareholder at the company they work or consume from, start their own company or simply work for whomever they want.