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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by FranzFerdiNaN on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:19PM (#50458847)
And why should investors get a perpetual part of the profit after buying in once and labour has to keep providing labour every single day to get paid?
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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by SoftTalker on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:51PM (#50462861)
Because labor takes no risks. You work an hour, you get paid a wage. Investor might lose everything they put in. See the dot-com crash or any startup that goes bankrupt.

If investors could not profit they'd just put their money in a vault.

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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by smallmancontrov on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:03AM (#50467249)
Labor takes no risks? Hahahhahaha! Career risk looks exactly like capital risk, with the big difference being that it is uncompensated.
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