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Should private for-profit companies employ people just because they can?
by frankjr 3y ago
Should private for-profit companies employ people just because they can?
- engineers_unite 3y agoPay salaries, or pay taxes. The society that enables a for-profit company to succeed is not free for the taking. Do your part.
- PM_me_your_math 3y ago[dead]
- beiller 3y agoSure! Salaries are what people use to exchange money for goods and services that these companies produce in theory. But the free money environment we've lived in the last decade seems to have primed companies to think that operating at a loss is okay. If we just fire the workers, and sales lag and dip, its okay because it will force the fed to lower rates and we can just borrow our way back to the top with no sales! Imagine though... an AI startup that just trades goods between AIs. We should actually start firing customers!
- pjmorris 3y agoEmployed people are much more likely to be customers.