The saddest thing about this is that I've been hearing this joke since at least the 1990s.
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This particular joke is from 2009.
So yeah.
God forbid we do something to improve the world without a profit motive.
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Even though the profit motive would be healthier people, and happier people, and numerous studies have shown happy, healthy people are far more productive in a orwellian people-as-product labor kind of way.
Even though the profit motive would be healthier people, and happier people, and numerous studies have shown happy, healthy people are far more productive in a orwellian people-as-product labor kind of way.
Yes but they have studies that say that KEEPING people happy and healthy is a huge cost center. Also, healthy happy people live longer, meaning that the labor pool will take longer to refresh. On the whole, it's not entirely profitable to keep people healthy and happy, because any profit they generate from their labor is almost immediately offset by the costs involved in maintaining their health.
and that comes back to fair pay and happy and healthy labor.
employees that are paid a fair wage spend more money, which increases profits.
So not making employees happy and healthy is a myopic, short term, kneejerk greed response that hampers and prevents growth and profits.
And I fully agree. But I'm not a CEO. I'm not a shareholder. I'm a worker. Am I paid fairly? Maybe. According to the market-based raise I got last year, I am. Our own CEO admitted that our wages don't scale with CoL, though.
Then the billionaires would still be billionaires, people would still be starving, and we'd continue to find unique was to kill each other.
That's just the human condition though.
Yeah it would suck if we lived in a world where psychopaths like Vlad Putin and Mr. Bonesaw no longer had power over the world's economy. We'd have to pay the equivalent to the monetary cost of one war in the Middle East to achieve this but without the human cost that a war involves.
Maybe Biden should declare a war on global warming? Or does not actually work because a war on global warming would have an achievable goal?
I dunno we declared a war on drugs and look how that turned out!
Would the mobilization required to wage war on global warming create more global warming, or worse, a super profitable black market for greenhouse gasses? D:
Lol
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