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RadicalSidewalks t1_jab9cs6 wrote

Reply to comment by roccoccoSafredi in Baltimore, the problem isn't a lack of jobs: "We can’t find people to work" - The newest threat to Biden's climate policies. by roccoccoSafredi

Got it! Strategy: continue to blame the million+ workers rather than the hundreds of executives (and by proxy, policy makers) who prioritize year over year profit margins above all else

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roccoccoSafredi OP t1_jaba9sy wrote

Policy makers, absolutely.

Everyone else is just a cog in the system though.

Public companies have to have their stock prices go up. If they don't investors will put their money into companies who's stock prices do.

All those other people: CEOs, managers, etc... If they don't help do that, they're gonna get replaced with people who do.

It's an ugly system, but it's the best we've come up with.

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RadicalSidewalks t1_jabc5ue wrote

So what’s your base argument here? You clearly understand that capital owners will do anything in their power to acquire more capital, pay workers bargain basement wages, and (legally and illegally) snuff out unionization. So we mustn’t make reforms that system but rather…….what? Tell workers to pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

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roccoccoSafredi OP t1_jabcrer wrote

I'm not really sure what the solution is. But I know the problem isn't "there are no jobs".

It's impossible to solve the problem when we don't understand it though.

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