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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by prolikewh0a on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:09AM (#18121804)
>I'm not sure it is fully capitalism's fault, but more of lack of laws protecting folks from capitalism alongside adequate enforcement of those laws.

So what you're saying is...it's capitalism's fault?

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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:27PM (#18124318)
Any government or economic system is bad when it is able to be abused by some of the players. Lots of these things are good in theory.

It is Ok to say that unrestrained capitalism is at fault, because that has led to this. Or capitalism that hasn't adjusted for the modern standards, perhaps.

Abuse is what is happening now, and the proper solution is laws to hinder such things. If it were up to me, a lot more places would be a socialist democracy with a thriving capitalistic sector.

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