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Because it's all about, and only about, you. Yes?
by ambientenv 3y ago
Because it's all about, and only about, you. Yes?
- thelastparadise 3y ago> Because it's all about, and only about, you. Yes? Yes, it is about the collective "you," and always has been. To suggest otherwise is preposterous.
- huytersd 3y agoEveryone is a consumer, it’s all of us. It’s not just that you’re artificially keeping prices high, in a globalist world, someone else would do it and all the workers would lose their jobs.
- bloppe 3y agoDespite sounding like it's zero-sum, fighting for the consumer is actually the only way to lift everybody up. Fighting for workers specifically is playing favorites. Fighting for the ownership class is also playing favorites. Focusing on consumers makes everybody a winner over time.
- rainonmoon 3y agoWorkers are consumers. A healthier working class and a more even distribution of wealth provides increased purchasing power. If all you can see is what you'd lose and not imagine what you'd gain, that's a fault of imagination, not the proposal.
- bloppe 3y agoI feel like you're arguing against me, but I could also take your comment verbatim and feel like it backs up my side. Favoring consumers means everybody gets their fair share.
- arp242 3y ago"Fighting for workers" means "don't have child labour", and "don't have machines that regularly amputate people's limbs", and those types of things. And "fighting for the consumer" is how we ended up with low-wage countries with little safety regulations making our stuff, and occasionally dying for it. This is also how we ended up with all sorts of other negative externalities ranging from worker exploitation to environmental impact. You can't capture reality in simplistic one-liners.