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Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping by TylerE on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:41AM (#23003448)
> And so, to make things work, the market would balance to higher wages

Which leaves no one better off.

If what costs $50 last year now costs $80, I'm actually worse off if I'm making $20/hr instead of $15.

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Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping by monadgonad on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:16AM (#23004810)
The money shouldn't come from increasing product prices. It should come from giving less to executives, shareholders, etc.
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Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping by rsj_hn on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:35AM (#23005602)
It shouldn't, huh? Do you also have an opinion on how a combustion engine should work? Is it wrong to have pistons?
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Re:How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping by monadgonad on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @06:52AM (#23078597)
"The market" is determined by people's choices, not fundamental laws of physics. We absolutely can dictate how it should work and the existence of any law that restricts the market from being completely free - from forbidding child labour to setting a minimum wage to antitrust - does exactly that.
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