Message from @August
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You'd have to be fucking stupid
To let yourself be treated like that
well america needed to create a minimum wage, as it became a real issue with out it.
guess what tomorrow is
Their economies are great, yeah. But in Sweden people still get paid decently because having people who can spend money back into the economy benefits everyone.
if you dont learn from your past you are doomed to repeat it
Employers have the right to pay their employees what they want. When you get a job you are in mutual agreement with your employer and you accept their proposed wage.
it's not like slavey or anything
you are making a CHOICE
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Yeah well guess what. When you’re starving, poorly educated, and dying, and the only option is working at a sweatshop because you’re in a third world country, what choice is there?
dont get a job and die
Well that's a different context.
Oh wait, this was the climate of America in the early 1900s
That's a third world country lol
I tell you what the choice is
Dont be a victim, find another way around it
If you don't thats your fault
Where hundreds burned to death in a factory because the boss decided fire escapes were too expensive and locked the doors so unionists couldn’t enter.
thats why they reformed
why is this relevant to modern america
There's always a way out.
Yeah we did. Because it was ETHICAL
yeah there is. Jumping to your death.
Let me clarify that I'm not against regulations.
Only price controls.
I'm a free market guy. not a laissez faire guy
Right. No regulation=triangle shirtwaist fire
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That’s ethics for you
corporations only care about your existence so they don't have to go through the trouble of replacing you when you drop dead on the factory floor
It's ironic when hardcore capitalists say that all people are naturally greedy and human nature is competitive yet they think people still have it in the goodness of their hearts to be ethical without regulation.
Exactly.
If corporations truly acted ethical without regulation surely adding the regulations would make no difference.
“The free market will sort this out” yeah it did. Where do you think the radium ladies came from
lol even as a centre-right person
I will admit capitalism is flawed
It’s flawed because we’re flawed. It needs an intermediary.
I think that the economy is best when there's a moderate amount of regulation.
Basically, take capitalism, and have regulations to patch up the flaws with capitalism.