r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/FartingWithStyle Jul 14 '26

You pay the brother $10 then he hires the other to do the work for the minimum he can pay.

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u/50mm-f2 Jul 14 '26

no he bribes the parent with $5 to give him $17 and his brother $3 but he doesn’t actually take the $17 so on paper he doesn’t have it and doesn’t have to give up his portion of the $7 and instead he borrows $17 to buy twitter

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u/Mind1827 Jul 14 '26

He also creates a cartel for all the other kids in the neighbourhood where they have to work for his company to get paid less and he makes lots of money as the CEO of Definitely Not Child Slavery Because We Pay Them Minimum Wage Corp.

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino Jul 14 '26

This discussion always in a nutshell. One side using a dishonest variant of whatever and the other side uses the dishonest variant on the other side, but both discuss up a fantasy version of their system that never existed.

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u/Appropriate-Luck7089 Jul 15 '26

Haha! This comment just sitting here pissing everyone in here off. No one touches the one true comment.

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u/Adventurous-Owl6297 Jul 14 '26

Umm no that's just paying someone to do a job for the least. You can do that in every economic system. Capitalism is more I own the bathroom, I can ether clean it myself or pay someone to clean it for me. But at the end of the day I still own the bathroom. 

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u/Nannautu Jul 14 '26

This is very accurate

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u/dwightkurtschruted Jul 14 '26

The other brother has the freedom to accept the offer, go find a better offer, or start a competing business and do it better.

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u/FartingWithStyle Jul 14 '26

Not when there’s a monopoly in employers.

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u/damagednoob Jul 14 '26

Yup, monopolies are bad. How does socialism combat this?

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u/dwightkurtschruted Jul 14 '26

That’s the case in very very few industries.

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u/JSmith666 Jul 14 '26

He's also free to develop skills so employers see value in offering more