@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to No Stupid Questions • 6 days agoIf the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats?message-square54arrow-up171arrow-down112
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareIf the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats?@Clinicallydepressedpoochie to No Stupid Questions • 6 days agomessage-square54
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•5 days agoHow do they “control the price of things”? Or wages?
minus-square@Maggotylink3•4 days agoThey raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•4 days agoWhy hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity? Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?
minus-square@Maggotylink2•4 days agoThey didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. Slavery showed us that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•4 days ago They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?
minus-square@Maggotylink2•4 days agoBecause we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger’s had gone further than anyone thought.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•4 days agoSorry, what are you talking about? What “war”? What was made illegal?
minus-square@Maggotylink1•4 days agoOkay, on the chance you’re not American, the American Civil War, and slavery.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•4 days agoWho said anything about slavery? What are you talking about?
minus-square@ClinicallydepressedpoochieOPlink4•edit-25 days ago… they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”
How do they “control the price of things”? Or wages?
They raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?
Why hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity?
Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?
They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. Slavery showed us that.
What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?
Because we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger’s had gone further than anyone thought.
Sorry, what are you talking about? What “war”? What was made illegal?
Okay, on the chance you’re not American, the American Civil War, and slavery.
Who said anything about slavery? What are you talking about?
… they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”
And then it happens why?