• Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    …are you fucking serious right now? Do you really think that offshoring your manufacturing means ‘moving out of America’, or that it’s done to ‘avoid paying taxes’? Do you not understand that the vast majority of a company’s value isn’t created in the sweatshops where laborers are paid nickels and dimes, but in the boardrooms of megacorps where marketing departments put thousand-dollar labels on smartphones that cost a hundred dollars to make?

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      1 year ago

      Yes. I totally get that. And if they dont want to pay workers and have a decent profit in favor of not paying workers for an obscene profit, they they can pack their asses up and move to China and let Xi tell them how to run their business.

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        1 year ago

        Wow, rock solid argument. ‘Yeah, idc if the US economy loses literal trillions if companies like MS and Apple move out! Who cares right?!’

        Seriously, thanks for reminding me that, while things are already pretty fucking bleak, we’re still not living in the worst-case scenario.

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          1 year ago

          That is some serious corporate cuckery there, bro. Are you sure you arent three CEOs in a trenchcoat?

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            1 year ago

            Better that than someone with no substantial argument to make. Maybe take some time to actually learn about how our economy functions? From books I mean, not YouTube videos

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              1 year ago

              Our ecconomy does not function. It is wildly dysfunctional. It collapses on a regular basis by design. I for one am not going to defend it or the people who cause those collapses.

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                    1 year ago

                    How much of it? The world’s largest and most famous billionaires don’t even make up a rounding error in the world’s economy (hell, most countries blow Musk’s entire fortune annually on the dumbest conceivable shit), nor is their money ‘removed’ from it. Hell, the richest people in the world have the vast majority of their wealth tied up in their own company’s stocks, which by definition is money that’s playing an active role in the economy.

                    Like seriously dude, there’s good reasons to hate billionaires and the current state of the global economy, but at least come up with valid arguments and criticisms that can convince people; otherwise, you’re just blowing hot air that only serves to paint legitimate critics as crazy people.