Comment on If the obscenely wealthy benefit most from having Republicans in power; and collectively they have disproportionate control over the economy; wouldn't they use that power to sabotage Democrats?

• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”…

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And then it happens why?

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity?

    Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. Slavery showed us that.

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could.

        What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?

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