Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIf 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?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down113
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareIf 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 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squarecrashfrog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·2 months agoHow do they “control the price of things”? Or wages?
minus-squareClinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months ago… they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThey raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?
minus-squarecrashfrog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoWhy 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?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThey 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.
minus-squarecrashfrog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 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?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoBecause we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger’s had gone further than anyone thought.
minus-squarecrashfrog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoSorry, what are you talking about? What “war”? What was made illegal?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoOkay, on the chance you’re not American, the American Civil War, and slavery.
minus-squarecrashfrog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoWho said anything about slavery? What are you talking about?
How do they “control the price of things”? Or wages?
… they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”
And then it happens why?
They raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?
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?
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.
What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?
Because we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger’s had gone further than anyone thought.
Sorry, what are you talking about? What “war”? What was made illegal?
Okay, on the chance you’re not American, the American Civil War, and slavery.
Who said anything about slavery? What are you talking about?