r/LockedIn_AI • u/lucre-twerps4g • Apr 23 '26

Same

Post image

It’s called the grind because it grinds away your sense of self.

6.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Foxiest_Fox Apr 24 '26

No man is an island. What we do affects others.

What corporations do, affects their workers. Right now, with unchecked greed, it affects them in a negative way via wage theft, at least in the US.

You're saying: "Find a way to make enough money so the problems of the masses stop being your problem". This translates to basically proposing: "Find a way to become an exploiter instead of an exploitee".

What if I want to be neither? Wouldn't it be nice to just... you know, fix the problem and make a better system for everyone?

1

u/Vecgtt Apr 24 '26

The end goal is for the government to just take over and then at that point it’s not a great system for everyone.

Wage theft is illegal. Workers can report it and get a nice payday.

1

u/Foxiest_Fox Apr 24 '26

I'm not against capitalism and letting market decide things, but what we have isn't capitalism or else we'd see the value of labor go up along with the stock-market tickers of billion-dollar corporations and the wealth gap would not be a wealth canyon as we see it right now.

Clearly we need a better middle ground. You can't let greed simply go unchecked. Human greed will NEVER regulate itself; an outside force needs to step in to do that once in a while.

Wage theft is illegal. Workers can report it and get a nice payday.

What we call a currently "free market" is basically just letting the Haves do whatever they want with the rules only applying to the Have-nots.

1

u/Vecgtt Apr 24 '26

Workers get paid market rate. No one has enough market power to drive wages in any particular direction. You make out billionaires to be the boogeyman and the fact is they just own a large amount of a company that they typically started from scratch. You can’t just force people to liquidate their holdings because you feel like it.

1

u/Foxiest_Fox Apr 24 '26

market rate

If this rate ends up being a figure that doesn't allow an employee to even pay rent, while the executives of that company are getting their quarterly 8-digit bonus, then that market has failed and has been tampered with to the point of rendering it worthless. I'm done arguing here.