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Frustrated Over Being Unemployed, Man Dies By Suicide After Burning All His Degrees (www.news18.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

So you support unionisation of workers to demand higher wages? Because you seem ignorant of the fact people DO work and are NOT being paid a living wage for that work. The world doesn't owe billionaires anything either.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Where did I say a thing about unions? Also if someone is being paid only X amount of money that means that the value of what they produce is X. Not enough for a living? Try producing better goods and services.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Lol take an economics class.

    Capitalism is based on the idea that workers are paid less than the value they create. How do you think businesses make profits?

    Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be unable to afford food, rent and savings.

    You think McDonalds gives its workers more money for producing better hamburgers? Jfc

    You sound like the only conservative kid at your high school who carries a briefcase and eats lunch alone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I followed from your logic that you should be in support of collective bargaining by the labour force to negotiate a living wage in exchange for the collective labour the provide. But you don't apparently because you either intentionally or mistakenly believe the falsehood that employers willingly pay the full value of the labour they employ others to do. This has been shown to be false through most of human history.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What you're paid is what you deserve.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is not true. Workers are de facto responsible for using up the inputs to produce the outputs in the firm. By the tenet that legal and de facto responsibility should match, the workers should jointly get the positive and negative product of the firm (i.e. the property rights to the produced outputs and liabilities for the used-up inputs). Yet, the employer is who gets 100% of this whole product and workers as employees receive 0% @workreform

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