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WE may be saying the same thing.

Humans will pick profit over people every time. The problem is that we have made it so the most profitable option is not the best at helping people.

I propose we change the laws and spending so the most profitable business is one that helps people the most.

You propose what exactly?



It’s nothing exact, as it’s anecdotal and incipient thought, at best. We may be indeed saying similar things.

I think, though, that a nation state’s job, if it wants to exist at the gunpoint they all exist at, it should enforce a rule that corporations within critical for life industries (healthcare, housing, power, food, education, utility, etc), are not to provide profit, shareholder return (dividend/buyback), or other similar during times when they raise consumer prices greater than inflation or layoff any employees for financial reasons or have over a certain amount of employees on public funded support programs. (Welfare, etc.)

The corporation and its profit to the owners should come second to the consumer and the corporations labor force.




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