• marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    No one cares if you "buy into" anything. It exists whether you believe it or not.

    The entire point of keeping unemployment at certain levels is so capitalists can dictate wages and responsibilities. It's not a secret. Bourgeois media openly panics whenever unemployment levels get too low.

      • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Right sure you do. I definitely believe you.

        You can believe whatever you want but that doesn't change how the real world works outside your head.

          • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Sure, if that's even true, then good for you.

            Again, you can believe whatever you want but that doesn't change how the real world works outside your head.

              • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                Cool good for you (if that's even true)

                Anyway, in the very real world that we live in, unemployment is kept at certain levels so capitalists can dictate wages and responsibilities. It's not a secret. Bourgeois media openly panics whenever unemployment levels get too low.

                  • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    1 year ago

                    Yes, they are panicking because people have bargaining power to get higher wages. Are you still not connecting the dots there?

                    I have a skill and I am not struggling like some of my other comrades are. That does not make me blind to the purpose of unemployment or to the fact that if everyone in the world had my skill set then that would mean there are a lot of important jobs that aren't getting done, a fact that, curiously, has completely escaped you.

                      • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                        1 year ago

                        No, they are concerned about having to pay people more, because that cuts directly into their own profits. They are not more concerned about inflation then they are about their own loss of profit from having to pay workers more, unless they require so few laborers to run their business that inflation does actually cut into their profits more.

                        Feds are increasing interest rates to increase unemployment. They directly stated that. You can Google it if you don't believe me.

                        Quite a bit has escaped you and it is endlessly entertaining to me.

                          • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                            1 year ago

                            Labor is the largest expense of a business wtf do you mean a wage increase "doesn't cut into profits" lmao

                            Businesses had an excuse to raise prices so they did, end of story. That's not complicated in the slightest.

                            The Fed is doing what they said they're trying to do, increase unemployment rates.

                            Have a good one.