• Joeffect@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You don’t think corporate enough… they won’t pay people more they will use even fewer people

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      3 days ago

      You misunderstand my point then. There are ways to force a corporation to pay people more (unionization, minimum wage laws, sufficiently bad labor shortages etc). There is a maximum amount of wage that these things can extract out of a company, because if the labor costs grow enough to make a business unprofitable and they’re unable to either raise prices or cut things enough to compensate, then that business will shut down instead. Increasing the amount of revenue per employee raises this theoretical ceiling on what can be paid. The method to actually get them to pay that wage is beyond the scope of my point, just that whatever method one might prefer has a higher maximum on what it can get when productivity is higher.

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        3 days ago

        I wasn’t the op, but look at what companies have done in the past… they find reasons not to pay people more… or just fire everyone and shut the whole building down because it’s cheaper for them than paying people more…