djbebs
>It could be nice if companies would be forced to set up collective workers representation entities when they reach a certain numbers of employees, where I am the limit is of 50 employees, then you must have a collective representation
So if that was the case, how can I work for a large company without such workers representation?
Except this is trivially disprovable by simply looking at YouTube.
Copyright plays essentially zero role in the business models of the vast majority of sucessful youtubers, and it is arguably a platform that is far more sucessful than traditional media at producing high quality, relevant content.
Sure, if you get rid of copyright some business models will no longer be possible... but some new business models will now be viable.
You wouldn't argue "we have to protect the baby crushing machine industry because if we don't then the baby crushers won't have a job", so why are you making that argument for copyright?
At the end of the day all stock market returns come from one's of 3 things:
Dividends
Earnings per Share growth
Multiple expansion
Over the long run the speculation that you so decry ( which amounts to Multiple expansion) has a negligible impact (less than 1%).
Sure you have plenty of short term booms and busts, but over the long term they are really irrelevant.
The "housing crisis" is 100% a political choice by portuguese voters.
That is, the shareholders who own the business and paid for the machines, not the employees who merely operate them.
They make that choice everyday they chose to keep working for it.
All these complaints that productivity growth has been matched by salary growth always seems to ignore that most of the productivity gains have been the result of capital expenditure, not of workers being better at their jobs.
I can buy thousands of square meters of land that is physically able to support housing for a negligible amount of money.
The land is useless to me because construction is expensive (as a result of regulatory requirements) and I'm not legally allowed to build there (also due to regulatory requirements).
People like to pretend it doesn't, but it does.
In effect any corporation tax is a double tax.