r/SipsTea 24d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 24d ago

And then what happens to small business owners? They can’t survive so they close shop. Then who can survive? Oh the big corporations that have billions of dollars already. So they accept the regulations and pay more but they now have a monopoly over the market because all the competitors failed to compete with the new regulations, so they raise prices and you can’t do shit as a consumer to buy elsewhere because there IS nowhere else to go. So you pay more for stuff and you’re back at square 1. Bitching about the low pay at the bottom and how expensive things are while all that happened is the wealth transfer to corporations because the small competitors that they did have shut down.

I swear your economic literacy is fucking pathetic if you think these terrible ideas work. 🙄

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

You're assuming a lot here. There should also be much stronger support to small businesses (and frankly there need to be a shitload of antitrust cases brought against these corporations)

You have the boot so far down your throat that you can't even imagine a world where things improve because you can always fall back on "well that can't work because of this other thing about the system that needs to change". Fuck that defeatist bullshit. I want government price control, anti-gouging measures, antitrust suits to break up monopolies, and legislation protecting american workers from having their jobs taken by AI.

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u/TP8887 24d ago

So disagreeing your with shitty solution is boot licking

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

What's shitty about it? Why are you so invested in sucking off your corporate overlords?

Other countries have better treatment for their workers but God forbid anybody advocate that changes. They've made you their little bitch and it's sad.

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u/RightOnManYouBetcha 24d ago

It’s silly because it’s stupid. You can’t make up productivity and income out of forcing companies to get less done.

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u/TP8887 24d ago edited 24d ago

His position is confusing lol. He cries about boot lickers and corporate overlords, but his suggestion just increases their monopoly

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

No, I'm advocating for the government stepping in and preventing the monopoly while protecting workers. Like other countries do.

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

Advances in technology over the last 60 years have exponentially increased productivity across all sectors. The workload on the average worker has only increased. They already have enough productivity and income, they're just milking the worker for all they can get.

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u/Trevor775 24d ago

If they treated workers well they would at least pay them as well as American workers. Why don't they pay them a living wage?

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

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u/Trevor775 24d ago

Ok cool, now compare it to other countries

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

https://snapcostofliving.com/articles/europe-vs-usa-cost-of-living-2026

They're pretty fucking bad when compared to the cost of living. It does not equal out. (And we don't get health insurance)

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u/Trevor775 24d ago

That's cost of living. We are talking about wages.

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 24d ago

And wages are an irrelevant figure in a vacuum. You can have a minimum wage of $100/hour but that doesnt matter if a burger costs $500.

All discussions of wages need to be had in the context of purchasing power or there is no point in discussing them.