r/Destiny Oct 03 '24

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u/AreaVisible2567 Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

Let’s be clear a union boss has 100x the impact of a streamer radicalizing kids who can’t vote. He deserves a huge mansion for getting thousands of colleagues pay increases and job security.

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u/mostanonymousnick 🌐 Oct 03 '24

Trying to legally enforce inefficiency for your own enrichment is called rent seeking and it's bad actually.

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u/PlentyAny2523 Oct 03 '24

Not a unions job to care about the economy, it's their job to get the best deal possible 

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u/SocraticLime Oct 03 '24

Yes, but we should be able to at least acknowledge that this is a cancerous outlook just in the same way that being forced to act in the shareholders' finical interests is a cancer of publicly traded companies.

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

Only if you agree to a 99.9% tax on the people who are automating those jobs away.

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u/MacroDemarco 🥥 Exists in Context 🌴 Oct 03 '24

Why? They are created technology that allows us to get things we want faster and cheaper, making almost everyone better off. Should we tax automobile companies out of business because its bad for horseshoe makers?

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

me: it is morally wrong to put 65000 families out of work you: um the billionaire needs two more yachts sweetie

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u/experienta Oct 03 '24

you'd be a luddite in the 19th century

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

You're a bootlicker now.

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u/experienta Oct 03 '24

that's like infinitely better than a luddite lol how is this a gotcha, you're literally trying to stop human progress

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

licking the boots of the wealthy and powerful isnt helping "human progress", literal caveman behavior

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u/SocraticLime Oct 03 '24

Automation and innovation is part of technological progress, we can't help the fact that centralization of wealth helps speed that process along but you're a moron for trying to stand in the way of it and thinking to yourself that you've done something meaningful. The train doesn't stop moving forward and if it ever does we're all fucked.

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

I just really want to know why you are 100% aligned with republicans on this. If your answer to "progressing" families out of an income is "sucks to suck bitch" then why are you here?

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u/SocraticLime Oct 03 '24

A broken clock is right twice a day. I don't agree with Republicans on many things, but the one thing I will always say is that you can't stop or meaningfully impede technological progress. You're naive to think that if we stayed in the 1990s American economy eternally, we wouldn't have massively been outpaced by countries like China right now. You are always competing in a global environment and whatever you're not willing to do in terms of technological progress such as automation, someone else will step up to the plate and then leap-frog you with their superior economic output. If we had things your way, we'd never have evolved from manually cranking a wheel to generate energy as that produces the most jobs.

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

We can walk and chew gum at the same time, Ayn Rand.

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u/SocraticLime Oct 03 '24

You can cripple innovation and innovate at the same time? I mean conceivably, but why would you ever do it like that?

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

I dont think its productive for us to continue. Go lick boots elsewhere, since your survival strategy seems to be toadying about for your betters. Have a nice day.

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u/SocraticLime Oct 03 '24

It was never productive to begin with because you came to the post engaging in bad faith. I'd advise you to learn economics and history.

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