• ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    In my experience, they don't really short circuit, they just double down and call me a lazy, entitled communist.

    The last argument I had was in the comment section under a meme complaining about taxes. I said, "If you think taxes are bad, wait until you find out how much money your boss is stealing from you. Workers create thousands of dollars in profits in a week, but they get paid a few hundred for their effort."

    A chud came back with, "They took all the risk! They invested their own money into the business and spent countless weeks working 100 hours and not sleeping to keep the company afloat. An employee can just go get another job, the business owner loses everything if the company fails. When you're willing to put in that kind of effort and take on that kind of risk, come back to me."

    • Tommasi [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      If the owner needing to find an actual job somewhere else is "losing everything", doesn't that mean that the employees, who are already in that state to begin with, are victims to some sort of deprivation? :thonk: