The contempt I feel for these people is unreal…

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Rolling back anti-slavery laws would also be good for business.

    In fact some new laws making anyone whose net worth isn’t at least 50 million USD, a property of a randomly assigned mega-corporation, would be amazingly good for business!

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      3 months ago

      I would say ‘don’t give them any more ideas’ but we both know they already have that idea AND are working to make it so.

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      3 months ago

      Nah you gotta feed and house the slaves. With workers you just pay enough they don’t die and many will even live in cars and eat trash.

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      Very short term maybe, but you’d also lose costumers, as those have to have money to spend on goods. And as any given person has a finite amount of need for goods (even adding wastefulness) having a broad group of similarily wealthy people is much better for business in the long run. Now that doesn’t factor in global competition but you get the gist

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        3 months ago

        Well yeah but you’re forgetting that today, “good for business” doesn’t mean long term sustainability of production and revenue - it means minimising the costs as much as possible and maximising the revenue so that the quarterly/annual profit increase is increased, just to make shareholders happy.