[an evil looking machine drenched in blood looks to be grinding people into bones]

[an orange character wearing a monocle and tophat shows the machine and speaks]
No ethical billionaires? What do you mean?
My poor people crusher reduces the number of poor people society has to care for
It saves us a lot of money and effort
People’s hate for billionaires is really overblown and unfair
You’re just jealous

https://thebad.website/comic/ethical_billionaire

  • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 days ago

    Yeah, but don’t forget how profitable it is for the companies to have workers they can legally pay below minimum wage pittance.

    All it costs is people’s freedom and (ironically in the context of USA) tax money.

    Edit: typo

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      13 days ago

      Yes. The state is, in effect, the tool that keeps workers alive (food stamps, medicaid) so they can work for minimum wage, or sent to jail if they can’t where they can be compelled to work for less. The system is designed to extract as much labor as possible.

      And communism is bad for some reason.