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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by koprulusector on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:39AM (#38814466)
Laissez fair capitalism never works.

I don’t understand this mindset. Looking at numbers in a vacuum.

The labor market is literal wage slavery, with slaves being rented instead of owned.

This attitude of everyone for themselves is literally what’s wrong with this modern, disgusting “individualist” pull yourself up by the bootstraps society.

I know the rules here are to be civil, but I really don’t understand this “f you I got mine” mentality.

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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by ativzzz on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:58AM (#38814580)
> The labor market is literal wage slavery, with slaves being rented instead of owned.

And yet it's the best system we've devised so far. Maybe we should go back to the older systems where the only way to climb the social ladder was to go to war pillaging our neighbors and taking them as slaves

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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by Raptor22 on Saturday December 30, 2023 @07:10AM (#38814656)
> And yet it's the best system we've devised so far

This is the truth, and it's the saddest part of all...

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Re:Biggest layoffs of 2023: Firms fired employees in jaw-dro... by _heimdall on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:56AM (#38814571)
It sounds like you're only seeing the extreme examples of the divide between individualism and communalism.

There are much more reasonable arguments made for individualism than "f you I got mine", just like there are more reasonable arguments for communalism than the ones posed by Stalin.

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