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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

And why should they? What makes investors special beyond "having lots of money"

Why should workers forfeit their labor at a fraction of its actual value to line the accounts of people who won the birth lottery?

Investors did not invent the product, they did not design it's manufacturing process, they did not acquire materials or even the land upon which the factory is built. And yet, they reap all the profits.

There's a simpler way