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Tesco loses UK legal battle over plans to ‘fire and rehire’ staff on lower pay
(www.theguardian.com)
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How does anyone have faith in capitalism when stuff like this happens?
They don't. But you can pay rent on revolutionary ideas alone.
Either:
Or they don't believe this is what a capitalist system is. That one really gets me because I don't know where to start on defining capitalism.
Or they see this court success as a good thing and that a market will always need careful guidelines to prevent a company from being able to make insanely greedy decisions.
They also argue that the business would go bust or move out of the country, both resulting in far wider job losses. I don't doubt that a small minority of businesses might fit into this but a business the size of Tesco that made a couple of billion of profit last year and is heavily dependent on physical sales in the UK to achieve that.
Same argument is used against the likes of Amazon or Apple paying fair taxes or wages, they do about 30 billion and 1.5 billion of sales of mostly physical goods here respectively, that they would have to give up on, which is just not going to happen. Apple has about half the UK mobile market, like they would give that up.
This is what I always say when arguing about this at work, that if a company is making X billion in profit and we decide to tax them heavier so they only make half of X billion in profit they’re not going to leave as that’s still at lot of profit.
Sure there is an argument that it could set a precedent in other countries to tax harder but still some profit is better than no profit and if not then you don’t have a viable business anymore and someone else will capitalise.
Capitalist hate competition once they got market share...
The fact that they are able to corner us with help of state actors is an abomination and yet bootlickers love it.
I sometimes think the only people who hate capitalism more than leftists are "successful capitalists". It would help explain why they've always trended towards fascism since before the term was even coined.
"suffering from success"
Seriously, this isn't even something I would stoop to to min/max my earnings in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. Executives who come up with shit like this should never be legally allowed in a C-suite position again.
They should be moved from the C-suite to the C block.
You mean companies being prohibited from firing and rehiring?
You know exactly what I mean. Why are you asking for clarification when it's spelled out in the article what they wanted to do?
Tons of companies have fired half their employees and then re-hired them as contractors with lower salaries/wages.
And yet, you are complaining about the system that stopped it from happening.
And yeah, of course I understood what you meant. You also understood what I meant. Maybe you should look at "corruption" instead, you'll get much better results there.
Capitalism didn't prevent this from happening. Capitalism is the reason this was attempted in the first place.
I think you've misunderstood. They're arguing against the capitalist approach in which there was an attempt to fire and rehire employees to cheat employees and save the company money. The system which prevented the company from doing so was government intervention to protect workers, which is not a capitalist approach.
You're arguing in good faith. They are not.
Capitalism didn't stop it from happening... government oversight stopped it from happening.
What kind of government?
A democratically elected one?