The best paying jobs are increasingly removed from any real form of value creation. Western Markets value deception, financialization, and asset inflation far more than actual labor, accurate accounting, and efficient administration. The professional test-writer makes more than the teacher. The real estate agent makes more than the construction worker. The insurance actuary makes more than the physician. The salesman makes more than the factory worker.
Follow this business logic to its ultimate conclusion and everything becomes an MLM.
60Follow this business logic to its ultimate conclusion and everything becomes an MLM.
and thats how you create real value
20Actually, it's M C M' 🥁
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great post8
Which is of course exactly what they do think.
There are those in society who enjoy that others are poor. They enjoy it because it means by contrast they are rich and successful, even if they are nothing compared to the 1%
The idea that people working in 'mundane' jobs could afford to live and enjoy themselves is an affront to their dignity.
There's a social ladder. Everyone above is God to be worshipped, and everyone below them is trash who deserves to get pushed down.
38They also have a direct material interest, because higher wages for workers would result in capitalists raising prices for everyone, so they would themselves become poorer, so they support the existence of the underclass to protect their own relative wellbeing.
5I'm not disagreeing that that's what would happen, because the people at the top won't want to make less money but it's so disappointing.
Try to increase the buying power of those at the bottom and the greed at the top means that everyone below loses buying power.
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That's not liberalism, that's being a pretentious fuck
10Being a pretentious fuck where the nature of that is rooted in liberal ideology.
6Yeah. There's no freedom until there's freedom from work
4Solving problems at the level of individual and pretending that society doesn't exist are core tenets of modern liberalism.
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Or how about "until capitalism is fixed for everyone, here's a way to better your own situation." And as a happy little bonus, if supply and demand is accurate to the workforce, it will create a bit of pressure towards better pay for the people who do the old job.
-6How about no.
Minimum living wage is the compromise solution. Actual anti-capitalism is expropriating the wealth of the bourgeois and establishing worker democracy.
18Expropriation is the compromise solution, head chopping time the alternative.
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I think guillotines work better for pressure, it's all about that surface area
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if supply and demand is accurate to the workforce, it will create a bit of pressure towards better pay for the people who do the old job.
Its not. And it won't. This is baby thinking
Take your happy bonus and shove it up your ass
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