It's also corrosive. There's a direct line between American work arrangements (and laws), and where America finds itself politically/socially. That line runs through the place where profit is created by workers and too much of that value is redistributed to companies.

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Nazis (GOP) think anyone not actively earning a living is a worthless human being that deserves apathy and death. Hyperbole? Look how they treat ordinary woman who want healthcare (Planned Parenthood) and Vets who just want to be tended to for our injuries in war and peace. I could go on and on... 😔
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I get what you’re saying. It’s wild how much the work environment can impact everything else, right? The way companies handle their workers definitely shapes a lot of what happens socially and politically. It’s a big conversation, for sure! What are your thoughts on how things could change!
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Disney's Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Episode 6. A pirate pleads for his life under the Pirate's Code. "I'm hungry... You're hungry." Asks a possibility question: would you rather work under the current Captain and forever fight for scraps, or share an unlimited bounty (a mint that creates credits).
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I just finished watching this last night.
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3.01 an hour in Lafayette, 1990. Georgia. The West Coast was paying 6.25
Why would workers move to these red state employers ?
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I used to work for a retailer which had company printed posters on how to apply for Medicaid and food stamps. I won’t name them, because they were an otherwise good employer. Their pathetic pay was a hair width’s better than most retailers at the time.
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That's the trickle-down part in the trickle down theory.
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Delaware State Supreme Court. 1985. “The singular goal of a corporation is to increase the wealth of the shareholder.” The birth of malignant capitalism. Our current diagnosis of “end stage capitalism” is doubly appropriate.
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Shareholder primacy, as that’s been interpreted, is nonsensical. Corps do lots of things that don’t all, immediately, go to shareholder value.
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And given to executives who don’t add any more value than non-executive workers.
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💯
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This is coming from bigoted workers who hate unions and Democrats ever since Civil Rights. It's not an act of god.
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Privatise the profits...

[Which are greater as you ignore your social responsibility to your workforce: wage; health care plan; pension;...]

Then run the business into the ground so as to get some Govt. Bailouts.

Then relocate business abroad!
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I spar with friends all the time on this topic. It seems like common sense; however, common sense isn’t common
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😳😳
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And it’s gotten exponentially worse in the past two decades.
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Over there, do you have " Workplace Agreements" or Union??
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A small percent of workers are in unions. Workplace contracts apply to most, but the terms are mostly employer-friendly.
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We should have a rule that a company cannot go public, or if public cannot distribute profits, if more than x% of employees are on Medicaid or SNAP or however we want to calculate. We have the technology now to do something like that.
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bsky.app/profile/mountains-rivers.bsky.social/post/3lgx3ikwr5c27
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It happens all the time the workers earn them millions but they do not pass that down it's called corporate greed. They encourage their workers to get government assistance to make it.
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Well said. Summed up perfectly.
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That, and American urban planning. Car dependency creates atomization.
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There's a hugh wage gap in those companies, if you have to be on public assistance because you can't afford medical insurance, food ,or pay rent these companies need to be forced to share their whealth
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I get mixed up, saw you in notifications, read, wanted to follow and tapped only to realize that I was already, so tapped again to re-follow. Sorry! Wall Street drains Main Street.
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It is all of those things. It is also a PISSER that we subsidize Walmart, etc!
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