Moved this response here because we were derailing the other thread. This is my third response to his assertion that, “Ownership is always trying to disendfranchise workers (so it can satisfy consumers better) with lower wages and harsher working and living conditions.” In order to substantiate this…

So (I haven’t read the other thread) is the argument that you’re making simply informational, like you think unions have a bad rep and you think that consumers and investors should support unionized companies because they’re more moral than non-union companies? Or are your arguming that employers s…

This thread is painful to read.

If by painful you mean hilarious, I would agree.

I think more compensation in ownership is a good way to go. Ownership predicates assumption of risk–should the laborer bear consequences other than unemployment if the employer goes bankrupt?

Of course they should, the same risk anyone else in the market takes. Now, if a company raids the fund to pay their CEO’s before they go bankrupt, I think they should probably be compensated. But of course they should assume the same risk anyone else does.

I’m so lost… You’re entirely incoherent. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks this.

Everyone is trying to get the labor of all forms to have higher marginal productivity. That is how they are able to increase productivity overall. This allows the production of more things with the same amount of resources. This is what allows more compensation. Some skills and labor are figured t…

It’s pretty coherent to me; i cringe when people hate on the masses, and I want to find a way to take the animal-ness living completely out of human society. I don’t want people to worry about food and healthcare, and education. Everyone is trying to get the labor of all forms to have higher margin…

Nobody wants to see this. We just would object to the way you want to accomplish this. My Professor continually commits the fallacy that Bastiat coined. Just because we don’t want the state involved in providing these things, doesn’t mean that we don’t want them provided at all. That’s just errone…

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I’m so lost… You’re entirely incoherent.

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