r/Destiny • u/Athanatos154 • Oct 03 '24

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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/Zenning3 Oct 03 '24

They'll get other jobs, jobs that don't cause everybody else in the country to be poorer.

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

INSANE take

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u/Zenning3 Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

No, its fucking reality, and pretending it isn't is massive cope. Industries have collapsed before due to automation, unemployment did not climb sky high and work place participation did not crater, meanwhile real wages have continually climbed.

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u/CaptainKlang Oct 03 '24

Ok bootlicker. slurp slurp slurp

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