If the price of labor was what determined the price, then why have prices gone up, when labor prices have not?

It’s the same thing the right does with government. It is a truism that there is all sorts of “inefficiencies” where the money is going to the wrong people for the wrong stuff.

In both cases, it’s sort of correct and sort of wrong. Corporations, governments, and any human institution beyond a certain scale (a few hundred people), will leak wealth into places it shouldn’t. It’s an unavoidable feature of our species as best I can tell.

It’s fine to accept it, it’s fine to be angry about it. It’s silly to blind yourself to it in some places and whinge about it in others.

slave labor in xinjiang

Oh no the CIA-backed terrorists got job training, the horror. https://lemmy.ml/comment/8175413

The actual slave labor is in the United States, thanks to the 13th amendment.

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