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If that's the way you see it, you are also free to do so. Labor is a market and the laws of supply and demand are at play just like any other market. Go start a

by mil22 7mo ago

If that's the way you see it, you are also free to do so. Labor is a market and the laws of supply and demand are at play just like any other market. Go start a company and hire some people. This is Y Combinator's Hacker News after all. The world needs more founders.

cush 7mo ago
Imagine for a second if supply and demand were actually the only forces at play for these businesses run by billionaires… - forgetting oligopolies, blatant antitrust, lobbying, the revolving door between government and the c-suites, legal tax evasion, etc. We don’t live in a fantasy world simulation on a frictionless plane where anyone can be a billionaire if they just pull up their bootstraps.
keybored 7mo ago
The comment you’re responding to claims that wage labor is exploitation on the part of the employer. That they can become exploiters themselves is usually not a convincing argument to them. It’s also like telling someone with just eighty bucks to their name and debt up to their ears that they can try to win the lottery.
- rayiner 7mo ago
  > The comment you’re responding to claims that wage labor is exploitation on the part of the employer. That’s irrational.
  - keybored 7mo ago
    And OP said “If that's the way you see it,” i.e. given the premise, “you are also free to do so.”