• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    But still want you to be a consumer. In their mind, consumers and employees are totally separate groups.

    But only consumers that are like parasitic bacteria that don’t know how to do anything except consume. They don’t want customers who are complete people who can make decisions.

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      In their mind, consumers and employees are totally separate groups.

      Which simply, isn’t true? That is where this generation of robber barons seems more short-sighted than the last one. Henry Ford was a prick, but he at least grasped that if his workers couldn’t afford a car, that would negatively affect his company outlook.

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        Yeah, it happens a lot these days. Consumers, employees, and taxpayers are all somehow different groups. When it’s said “taxpayers are paying for SNAP benefits”, they’re pretending people on SNAP don’t pay taxes, or will never pay taxes.