Hatred often makes you want to hurt people, but people hurt peope in the name of greed more often, and not only with less potential for guilt, but is often the cause of delusional accolades and reassurance both from within oneself and from others.
Hypothetical:
A CEO lays off 10,000 employees that helped that company succeed, solely to increase earnings and not because the company is hurting, not only seriously hurting 9,997 people, but causing 3 to commit suicide.
A bumpkin gets in a fight with someone he hates the melanin of because he’s a moron and kills them.
Who did more damage to humanity that day? They’re both, I want to say evil but evil is subjective, they’re both highly antisocial, knowingly harmful behaviors, yet one correctly sends you to prison for a long time if not forever, while the other, far more premeditated and quite literally calculated act, is literally rewarded and partied about. Jim Kramer gives you a shout out on tv, good fucking times amirite!
Edit: and this felt relevant to post after someone tried to lecture me about equating layoffs to murder.
“Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don’t care if they kill people — as long as it’s profitable.”
https://jacobin.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing
True, hatred and greed is embed in human nature. However making laws against greed will likely not solve much but discentivise productivity. Or as libertarians will say “cause atlas to shrug”.
“discentivise productivity.”
This right here. The jargon they use to rationalize cruelty. “growth or die” capitalism says, yet that same growth/metastasis capitalism demands is ironically choking the human race right now.
Growth is destroying our habitat. What we need is equilibrium.
Is the sustainable packaging company I work for, which is doubling in size every 3 years, “choking the human race?”
This is a silly mindset, man.
The human population is not doubling in size every three years. For profits to increase at this rate, at some point human consumption needs to increase, which is then inherently unsustainable, no matter what you are using to produce packages.
Besides, you are hired explicitly because you produce more value than you are paid, via wages and benefits. Though I admit, an argument can be made that this is not an inherently bad thing.
I am aware of why I am hired. It is not a bad thing whatsoever.
You’re thinking growth=consumption of resources and that is false. Growth of the service industry, for instance, is not tied to physical resources at all. My industry actually reduces net consumption when it grows.
Even if consumption does not increase, chasing after infinite growth, on a finite planet, is not sustainable, which is my point.
I just showed you how this is a stupid argument.
It’s one of those things that sounds reasonable, but is nonsense. It’s like saying “we’re not a democracy, we’re a Republic” or some other “gotcha.”
Don’t build your worldview off of memes.
Im not on the “I hate capitalism train”. However yeah I understand workplace relations between employee and employer overall is in the toilet.
As of now, the best solution I can come up with is refusing to work for morons. The more that do this, the harder it will be for morons to find staff and run their operations.
Refusing to work for morons will have you choosing between the “good” corporations that just get by with a little tax evasion, wage theft, and waste.
And the “effective” corporations that will do anything to corner the market. Including suffocating / buying the “good companies”.
It’s a race to the bottom.
I am sure there are other options out there than just those two.
Even if that is the case, quit working for someone and start your own business.
I’m sure your mom and pop outfit will compete very effectively against megacorps that own the marketplaces, advertising outlets, and regulatory framework, hell I’m sure it’s a walk in the park to operate at a loss for decades while their lawyers peel back every transaction you process to find the smallest irregularities.
And that’s just assuming they don’t send a goonsquad to burn you and your place.
Stay poor then. No one will force you to join society. Go start a commune
Lol it would be difficult for me to stay poor. But great argument, very stirring, really refuted my points and added a lot to think about.
Even if your parents fund the commune, you can still live as a poor person.
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Yes I have heard of the dunning-kreuger effect. If your employer is a moron, go find another employer to work with that is a capitable at being an employer.
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Not necessarily are they. Many are acts of need and desperation.
You make a fair point, however when you work for someone, that is your choice. To shop at a business is your choice. If you do not like a business, do not work for it and do not shop there.
Stealing from someone is stealing from a person who took time to produce that item. In the case of s store, the store had to buy the product from a distributor.
So theft is still inmoral. Is theft greed? Yeah it could be and in most cases its greed and selfishness. However the thief in most cases can buy the item but chooses not to.
So, I get where you’re coming from, and it might make sense for an Aussie, who’s consumer protections are very strict. However, most of what is being discussed exists in a completely different environment.
That being said, when you work for someone, it is your choice. However, for the sake of understanding the situation, let’s say that companies in the local area all pay very little. Perhaps enough to pay rent, food, and utilities, but not much else. Now, you might be aware that the products you sell are being sold for much more than you make. This isn’t a fair pay, and you know that. According to your other statements, you should go find a job that pays well and treats you with respect, right?
But that’s based on a premise that that job and company exists. If the current jobs that aren’t paying you fairly are all that exist around you, that idea falls on its head. So what do you do then? Not work? You can’t afford to save with your current income, and you will starve without it (I cannot stress this point). Move? This article should be telling (https://myelisting.com/commercial-real-estate-news/1334/most-and-least-expensive-cities-states-to-rent-compared-to-income/). No place in the US is going to change your situation, as you’re more than likely going to end in a worse spot, if you move without any savings, even with another job lined up. If your next argument is to move out of the country, once again, how would you do so without any savings? Sure, there are people who manage to do it, but immigration in any country is not a quick process, and employment isn’t always guaranteed for unstable citizens like immigrants.
So, left in this situation, we are left to ponder the initial question; are crimes of greed (I haven’t even gotten to discussing what exactly this might entail) actually worth codifying into law, and having criminal penalties attached to them? I say yes, for many reasons. Crimes of greed are typically what we perceive as immoral or damaging actions due to either unchecked, rampant white collar crime, or the actions of companies that previously would have been unthinkable, but due to eroding regulations and dulling the fangs of the enforcement of surviving regulations, the risk is mitigated enough to justify the profit of these ‘greed crimes’.
One can complain about their situation, or one can do something about it. Stsrt your own business, expand your compass. Yeah you might have to try out five or ten jobs until you find one that does not have a moron as a boss and has good pay. Sitting around and whining about it and demanding “laws should be made” is really just a form of communism. Communism did not work.
I get it, there are lots of employers who are morons and pay very little. And yes, stop working for them at all cost. Do not feed the beast, starve them out of workers. I know of places locally that had poor working conditions and offered little pay that went under because they could not find any staff.
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If leftists were not gullible people with fundamental misunderstandings of the world, they wouldn’t be leftists.
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It’s just meme leftism. Actual leftists who are like, activists and shit, at least can acknowledge reality.
This is more like “The Donald” than like a local Republican office, as an example. Might have the same ideology, but people are considerably less informed and more unhinged.
- Pew Research Center
My old boss has 2 graduated degrees and believes that human vibration frequencies are out of whack and that’s why the world has strife.
Educated people can buy into total nonsense.
Also I very highly doubt that most people here have their undergrad, even.
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Disincentivizing productivity sounds helpful for the environment
A key facet of productivity is achieving the same or higher output with fewer resources, so it’s exactly the opposite.
Okay. Between a company hyper focused on productivity and one that’s in maintenance mode, the former is going to have a worse impact on the environment, imo.
haha, you mean the impact on the marginal return to labour?
i mean most econonics rhetoric is fucking garbage, but the stuff from the ones who studied economics before learning calculus properly . . .
mmmm. . . bliss point . . .
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Austrian economics is real economics man.
There are no “schools” of economic thought any more
probably better to describe them as ‘memes of economic shitposting’, but i think it may have been that way for a while now.
probably sine quite a while before the word meme and shitpost…
Properly? Most people in the USA probably never learned algebra, let alone properly.