• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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    They literally are not. That’s because labor markets are determined by the owners and not the workers. Whenever the workers say ‘no!’ you call in the federal dogs and scream NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANY MOOOOORERRE!!!

    Ayn Rand was dead wrong. Free Marketers are dead wrong. None of what you said would work has worked. It has been an abysmal failure, and the sheer number of threads in which some asshole has to defend the so-called “free market” is proof of that. If any of it worked then we wouldnt be having this discussion. If any of it worked no one would be talking about housing shortages or labor shortages or shoplifting or lack of health care or the absurd price of work trucks etc etc etc. We were given every single problem that free marketers claimed socialism would cause.

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      Take a breath big guy. You’re rambling.

      This is you not liking the outcome of the existing labor market, not a denial of its reality.

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        And yet, here we are, with employees getting paid far beliw their market value but being forced to accept it because deregulation has removed competititon from the equation.

        There is no “labor market”. There is only billionaires saying “you will take what I give you or starve”.