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Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)
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[+] -29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"Give me the fruit of some else's labor!!!!" Gross.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ignoring the snark in your comment...

    I assume you take issue with UBI?

    Would you feel different if we 'required service' for UBI? For example, some countries have mandatory military service. If we nationalize these giant corporations, we could make working there a way to qualify for UBI.

    Do you think UBI is just taking money from the average person and giving it to lazy people who do nothing? Or do you enjoy the separation of the rich while the rest of us struggle for scraps? Do you understand that the UBI would apply to you as well?

    Or am I missing deeper thoughts given to your comment?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago

    I don't worry much about people who have more than me. I am grateful to enjoy my work and my life. I don't want the government to steal from me and I don't want them to steal from others either. Even in the black and white world of marxists, exploitation of labor just moves from the oppressors to the government. The government becomes the oppressors. It has never worked, it will never work. People are naturally motivated by profit. It's built in. Messing with that or short-circuiting the work-reward system is unsustainable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't agree with that guy but doesn't that apply to the people running these companies. Profit can only be made by exploiting labour. There can't be any other way

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

    Profit can only be made by exploiting labour. There can’t be any other way

    This is a bad take and suffers from overly-simplistic thinking. Corporations are force multipliers for labor and the economic value of your labor is increased by joining forces with others.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why is it a bad take. How can there be any other way. Where exactly is profit created from?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Profit is created from the output of productive labor. The amount of profit varies depending on the efficiency of the market and the company.

    Companies are force multipliers for labor. The company's profit comes from that force mulitplication, not by withholding profit from the worker who generated it.

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