• Bonehead@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    If your business requires you to exploit your workers in order to make a profit, then your business doesn’t deserve to exist. Making excuses for the exploiters changes nothing.

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      11 months ago

      If the business doesn’t deserve to exist, why do customers keep supporting them? Why is the onus only on the workers to suffer?

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        11 months ago

        That’s actually an excellent question. You should look into why people who work for America’s largest employer can only afford to shop at Walmart, have little to no benefits, no job security, and often qualify for food stamps (which is American taxpayers subsidizing their salaries). The owners of America’s largest employer are worth like $140,000,000,000.

        Hint: it’s coercion.

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        11 months ago

        “Free” market doesnt really work without regulation, otherwise we shift towards current business models where you, the customer, often dont really have the choice.

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        11 months ago

        Why are customers responsible for ensuring that workers get paid fairly? I’m looking for a service. If your service cannot exist without exploiting your workers, then it doesn’t deserve to exist. You are not entitled to exploit people for your own gain.