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Re:Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionizati... by leeoniya on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @08:37AM (#18663717)
> then take the wealth generated and redistribute it to the population

i assume you mean the shareholder population?

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Re:Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionizati... by Frondo on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @08:42AM (#18663765)
I don't think he meant, but it's unclear whether you think that's what should happen.

I'll go in and say it should be redistributed to the population at large -- anything that gets us, as a species, closer to that Star Trek utopia is a good thing. World's got the resources for it already.

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Re:Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionizati... by leeoniya on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @12:57PM (#18666064)
> but it's unclear whether you think that's what should happen.

i just think that's what would happen. trickle-down economics and the idea that any savings will be passed down to the consumer is a marketing crock of shit.

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