• Fishnoodle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Corporations seldomly produce wealth for people or a nation. In practice they’re merely a means of organizing the labor of many into a system that allows the benefits and money to be funneled to a small few.

    And lack of any real competition gives them no reason to improve the lives of any one other than themselves.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Minimum wage in the “richest country in the world” needs to be $25/hr without tips. Or is “richest country” always been a lie?

  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Everyone complaining about their tax dollars paying for these programs seem to have no problem with their tax dollars subsidizing these companies’ payrolls.

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      3 months ago

      Or bombing kids, or being grifted away, or funding a gestapo, or starting another new war…

      All that is fine, but don’t you dare help a common person!!!

  • digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    How on earth do they think these CEOs and Executives make their obscene salaries. It’s via wage theft and they’re all in on it, people are just to indoctrinated to speak out against it and do something about it, for fear of losing what crumbs of health insurance they are dealt with.

    Big companies have people well and truly under boot in most countries.

  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    Any employees qualifying for aid due to low wages while working at large companies like Walmart should disqualify the company from all tax incentives.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      It would not be legal in a society that is actually trying to have consistent laws. The US is not one of those.

      At this point businesses don’t have to adhere to any regulations so long as they bribe the officials that are supposed to enforce them.