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> corporations would pay zero and use slaves if they could Honest question: why is this absurd? Slavery has been a widespread practice in history, and it is st
by iron_ball 2y ago
> corporations would pay zero and use slaves if they could
Honest question: why is this absurd? Slavery has been a widespread practice in history, and it is still ongoing in some places.
Corporations exist to make money. The brute mathematics of profit require costs to be reduced. To zero, if at all possible.
- ImJamal 2y agoIt is absurd because in order to make money the companies need people with money to buy their products. If everybody was a slave they wouldn't be able to buy anything.
- iron_ball 2y agoSure, can't argue with that. But there are plenty of stable points on the curve from 0% to 100% slavery.
- FrustratedMonky 2y agoYes. That is true. There are a lot of stable points, and gov/corp configurations. Really, across history, there are a lot of different forms society can take. I'm just reacting to the current push in the US to drive down the lower and middle classes, and funnel so much wealth to just a few. A lot of this is done by wage suppression, so that corps can have higher profit.