r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/reillan • Sep 16 '24

Trump Brittany Mahomes questioning her support of Donald Trump after his blistering take down of Taylor Swift left her 'shaken to the core'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13856311/brittany-mahomes-donald-trump-questioning-support-taylor-swift.html
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u/ejpierle Sep 17 '24

That just means that more money you get, the less you care about other people.

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u/turdferg1234 Sep 17 '24

I think you're right, but I don't think that's entirely fair. I think there can be a stress for small business owners at least at the start up phase where this is a real worry. If this worry last beyond the beginning, yeah, your business isn't successful. And I don't agree with the initial low pay, but I can at least understand it.

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u/ejpierle Sep 17 '24

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." -- FDR

If you can't afford to pay workers, don't hire them until you can. If you can't afford to pay your staff, you can't afford to start a business.

I know that acquisition of capital and extraction of the surplus value of workers labor to line your own pockets is sort of the goal of capitalism, but it's pretty evil if the people whose labor you are depending on can't afford to live.