I dunno I think there’s probably been one or two “honest” inflations where a vendor has seen her costs increase and has only raised her prices just enough to cover those increases.
But yeah, I bet the majority of inflation has been rooted in avarice by shareholders and owners.
It’s fascinating that this isn’t something that is always thrown back in the so called “pro life” person’s face. They’re only pro birth. They don’t care if the baby that comes out is fed, clothed, housed, eventually educated, etc. Or at least, they don’t believe there’s any collective responsibility to take care of that baby.
I’m all in on the labor theory of value. It’s gonna be a long haul to displace all the people who believe value is created by magic in the market, though.
If I thought the people who run for profit hospitals and insurance companies had human souls, I’d say they should be made to do this work so they could maybe see that it shouldn’t be about profit.
But then I remembered they’re all non-human garbage who should be first up against the wall in the revolution.
Doctors should be left out of this. It’s not their fault America (and probably some third world countries) allow profit driven medicine.
You’re exspecially not supposed to fart in front of girls!
I read a pretty convincing article title and subheading implying that the best use for so called “AI” would be to replace all corporate CEOs with it.
I didn’t read the article but given how I’ve seen most CEOs behave it would probably be trivial to automate their behavior. Pursue short term profit boosts with no eye to the long term, cut workers and/or pay and/or benefits at every opportunity, attempt to deny unionization to the employees, tell the board and shareholders that everything is great, tell the employees that everything sucks, …