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minus-squareCosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThe problem isn’t that you like cheap produce. The problem is that corporations profit off of the exploitation. Your price could remain the same if the company was willing to accept less profit. They would still be rich. Just not as rich. And that’s a problem with almost every company in existence.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoMaybe we need profit caps put into law.
minus-squareDelta_V@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThat kind of system existed in post-WWII USA, when a high school graduate could work full time to afford a house while being the single income for a big family. We called it ‘taxes’.
The problem isn’t that you like cheap produce.
The problem is that corporations profit off of the exploitation. Your price could remain the same if the company was willing to accept less profit.
They would still be rich. Just not as rich.
And that’s a problem with almost every company in existence.
Maybe we need profit caps put into law.
That kind of system existed in post-WWII USA, when a high school graduate could work full time to afford a house while being the single income for a big family.
We called it ‘taxes’.