Author:: Anne Helen Petersen Link:: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-capitalism-is-broken-economy?r=2037y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy Tags:#media/article Summary::
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Stick with me here, but what if people weren’t lazy — and instead, for the first time in a long time, were able to say no to exploitative working conditions and poverty-level wages? And what if business owners are scandalized, dismayed, frustrated, or bewildered by this scenario because their pre-pandemic business models were predicated on a steady stream of non-unionized labor with no other options? It’s not the labor force that’s breaking. It’s the economic model.
- people aren’t lazy, they are finally able to say no to exploitative power and corporate structures
- people aren’t broken, the system is broken permanent
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We should ask ourselves, our communities, and our government: __if a business can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business? __If it’s too expensive for businesses to provide healthcare for their workers, maybe we need to decouple it from employment? If childcare is a market failure, but we need childcare for the economy to work, how can the government build that infrastructure? If the pay you provide workers doesn’t allow them to live in the community, what needs to change? Collectively, we should be thinking of different funding models, different ownership scenarios, and different growth imperatives. Failure to do so is simply resigning ourselves to another round of this rigged game. ^8FUpdnvav
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