Starbucks is in the business of real estate, not coffee. The sooner you understand this, the sooner we can leave this whole barista discourse behind us
@7kirina7@Corvidelle@MarcoFoster_@MorePerfectUS@MPUniversityUS Corporations aren't built on surplus value. They're built on credit & rent extraction, where labor plays the role of overhead on investment. McDonald's is in the business of real estate; sales & employment just measure investment guarantees. It can survive with 0 employees
Crazy that he has a better pulse on the relational dynamics of the 2020s US economic system than 99% of leftists. We might experience capitalism in our mundane, daily interactions with society, but the architecture of our economy is fundamentally alien to what Marx described
Abdul El-Sayed: “We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism. If you’re a corporation, you can buy a politician to get that politician to rig the system for you so you make more money and you ex out every other market in which you compete. You need good healthcare. You need a good education. We need childcare. We need good roads and bridges. We don’t need to send our money to big corporations to subsidize them, we need to be invested in people so they have the human capital to be able to do all the things as they graduate and come out”
@RCBC_Official@LasgunSunflower Consider how tone deaf this sounds after hearing that economic dependence on rapid tourism & full-scale industrial migration has been locking qualified Africans out of productive fields that can cultivate the development of their countries for over a century
@VenturCommunist@CDMorlock I love that when pressed on this you always say "I talk to workers" like it eclipses the photo montages of people building compounds, shooting guns, organizing truckers, orchestrating disaster relief, cleaning up working class neighborhoods, etc. "Talking" isn't gonna cut it, pal