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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by bluGill on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:00PM (#26754628)
When you shop around for price you are shopping around for someone to exploit with the lower price. There is no difference, zero sum, if you get a product for less, somewhere in the world someone got less money.
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by astrange on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:33PM (#26757458)
The economy isn't zero sum (from a capitalist PoV) and reducing someone's profit margin isn't exploiting them (from a Marxist PoV). It's important to avoid thinking partial equilibrium effects are the actual effects of something.
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by bluGill on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:11PM (#26763086)
This isn't about the total ecconomy, this is a single transaction.
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by lupire on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:01PM (#26757247)
The difference is plausible deniability, I guess.
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