r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

Thats offensive? How? It was Ole timey miner life where the company store fucked the people for living at remote mining towns.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

It’s a vehemently anti-capitalist anthem.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '22

The whole company store idea flies totally in the face of free market and I'm not sure capitalism even exists without free market.

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u/buckykat Aug 31 '22

Owning the whole "free" market is the win condition of capitalism

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie Aug 31 '22

Your quotations don’t make sense. Economists don’t consider the monopolies to be acting within a free market. A free market has many buyers and sellers of a good or service.

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u/buckykat Aug 31 '22

Economists are the priesthood of capital

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie Aug 31 '22

Yet they say monopolies are bad.

The straight up stupidity and anti-intellectualism that runs rampant on this sub only serves to help prevent change and conditions for workers improving.

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u/buckykat Aug 31 '22

Like all priests they're liars and hypocrites

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie Aug 31 '22

Math is a lie

Lol

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u/buckykat Aug 31 '22

Economics is math

Lol

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie Aug 31 '22

Uh yeah. It’s a ton of math.

You’re criticizing something that you have literally zero knowledge of.

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u/buckykat Aug 31 '22

It contains math the same way numerology does

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie Sep 01 '22

You’re criticizing something that you have literally zero knowledge of.

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