• csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    See the problem is that I like cheap produce. The companies can afford to sell cheap produce and pay better though they won’t. So they abuse this type of labor.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The problem isn’t that you like cheap produce.

      The problem is that corporations profit off of the exploitation. Your price could remain the same if the company was willing to accept less profit.

      They would still be rich. Just not as rich.

      And that’s a problem with almost every company in existence.

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          9 months ago

          That kind of system existed in post-WWII USA, when a high school graduate could work full time to afford a house while being the single income for a big family.

          We called it ‘taxes’.

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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            9 months ago

            Taxes were never meant to be profit caps and they clearly aren’t an effective way to stop the ruling class. They’re what the ruling class used to use to break people; nowadays they just don’t give people enough money in the first place.