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* wages increase with productivity

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Workers unaware of class struggle

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Absolute legend

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Let’s go with wage theft and federal minimum wage stagnation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Imperialism and US Hegemony.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

the obstruction of class consciousness

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Pillaging of the global south for labor and resources

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

"Unskilled labor" whom they don't want to pay shit to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

*Steve, the janitor at the New York Stock Exchange

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Socialized costs, privatized profits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Consent of the oppressed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

a couple more Luigis

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Financial slavery

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Class collaborationists and reformists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Dividing the people through wedge issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

False consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Participants have perfect product and market knowledge.

No, they don't. They have no idea what the actual costs of the product is, nor are they aware that it'll break in two weeks ... or two days.

EDIT: a typo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

White nationalism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

unbridled Growth