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    Re: Can you summarise it for us Keith? Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on June 18, 2023, 11:20 pm, in reply to "Can you summarise it for us Keith?"

    Looks to be just a reiteration of one the old contradictions of capitalism.


    Capitalism requires you cut jobs (through automation & offshoring) & workers wages because that's how you become more "efficient" & "economic".

    But if you cut job numbers & workers wages then they cease to be the consumers capitalism also requires therefore...the general economy will tank.

    -Most Tories and Capitalists usually refuse to get beyond the first point because the second suggests that a more equitable distribution of wealth is actually good for capitalism...and that's well, heretical.



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