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Re:Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruis... by katzgrau on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:29PM (#13623932)
Sure, just two different ways of looking at the same thing. I personally view all employment as fundamental exploitation. Obviously you only hire employees with the intention to extract more value than what you give back in compensation. Some employers are downright extreme in this exercise.

I'm not against all of it. I just appreciate viewing things from as many perspectives as possible, uncomfortable or not.

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Re:Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruis... by merpnderp on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:55PM (#13624413)
What's a better system? About the time that Marx was formulating his ideas on society and markets, the US was just about finishing up several decades of government businesses that kept losing money against free market ran businesses even though they had the weight of the US treasury behind them. I doubt anyone would disagree that the reason the government businesses failed was that they were not sensitive to market signals and kept investing people's labor poorly.
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Re:Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruis... by tootie on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:00PM (#13626170)
Socialism need not be paired with a command economy. Capitalism plus redistribution works better.
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