• pjhenry1216@kbin.social
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    Workers wanted an increase in pay, so shareholders needed to offset that by even more. Workers can’t get a raise without shareholders getting a raise.

    Inflation is majority driven by profit, not wages. Dems barely attack that angle. Republicans actively work against it.

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        Sorry, didn’t mean to word it as support. Just wording it as the reality of what they think.

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        Shareholders provide economic value (it’s literally in the name) and are not rent-seeking by definition

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            Shareholders are key investors and are the principal drivers of M&A and infrastructure investment.

            Disagreeing with the idea that companies exist to drive shareholder returns does not change the actual purpose of shareholders, nor suddenly cause them to be rent-seekers.

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              You brought an economics argument to a rage thread. OP isn’t making a technical claim when they say “rent seeking behavior”, they’re angry and using it as a synonym for “greedy people”.

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                I don’t tilt at these windmills for the people arguing nonsense, but for people scrolling by.

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      Yeah except the workers never get the increase in pay you tool. Both Dems and Republicans in office actively help this happening, progressive Dems are the ones that give a damn