Quote (fender @ Feb 5 2020 02:51pm)
oh right, the good old 'if you tax millionaires they will just leave the country, if you hold corporations to a minimal standard, they will just automate or leave' tale. sure, that's why other strong economies (like the german for example) are similarly unequal and devoid of worker protections, why we also have to work 2-3 jobs just to earn a living wage... oh wait!
sorry to break it to you, but those are bullshit claims to explain to you why you just have to 'live with it', and unfortunately you seem to have uncritically accepted that.
apples taste different that oranges. you have 100 years of worker protections built into your economy, mainly based on a meta of corporations willing to make less profit % because they have less pressure from the stock market.
but sure, keep banging that drum. it will only make me hundreds of thousands of dollars while a recession happens and people lose homes in a country you dont live in that doesnt affect you.
i hate to break it to you but i sit in meetings with fortune 500 companies that already have plans to layoff 30-50% of their workforce over the next 10-20 years. this is what i do every day. what do you think forcing them to guarantee a more safe workplace and forcing them to divert profits to employees will do? slow this down? you're just used to using that "bullshit claims" against right wingers that are working on theories apologizing for billionaires from Tucker Carlson. im working on what i do literally every day with info behind nondisclosure agreements.
i find it funny that im acting as an alarmist against an industry that i make piles of money from, and yet people still dont take my warnings seriously. so go ahead, put that fire out with gas. ill make money either way and i'll keep on acting morally to help people rather than emotionally to back up my side of the political aisle's narratives.
if you want me to prove it to you name some worker protection measures you think need to be put into place that you also dont feel will result in the jobs being automated rather than made better. and i can provide you with industry and even machine specific info on when that was tried and how it failed.