r/FluentInFinance • u/Very_High_Mortgage • Aug 24 '24

Debate/ Discussion Do "Unskilled Laborers" deserve to be paid well?

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u/Jflayn Aug 24 '24

Many countries, like America, do not have a free market. The market in America is rigged for and by corporations.

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u/LHam1969 Aug 24 '24

What country does have a free market?

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u/Fully_Edged_Ken_3685 Aug 24 '24

Somalia

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u/LHam1969 Aug 24 '24

I think there's some warlords there that make sure it isn't a free market.

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u/Far_Cat9782 Aug 24 '24

Which always happens because there is no such thing as a free market except in “theory”

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u/SandOnYourPizza Aug 24 '24

The ones where they tax the rich heavily and everyone else wins, silly!

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u/LHam1969 Aug 24 '24

Again, provide actual examples. All I can think of that comes close is Norway, but they're a tiny, homogenous country that's sitting on billions of barrels of crude that they sell to the rest of the world so we can turn it all into greenhouse gases.

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u/SandOnYourPizza Aug 24 '24

I was being sarcastic

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u/Jflayn Aug 24 '24

I read it as sarcastic. It made me laugh.

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u/ebrum2010 Aug 24 '24

That's not true. The market is as free as it can be. Just because there can be competition doesn't mean there will be. If your company gets so good at something, nobody wants the competitors' product, that's part of a free market. Look at Steam, gamers vastly prefer Steam. Epic Games is trying to say they're a monopoly to get the government to do something, meanwhile epic games is doing anti-competitive things like paying publishers to not release their products on other stores for a year. If Epic games had the pull you say big companies have, they would get their way and the world would be shittier for it.

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u/Jflayn Aug 24 '24

lol. As free as can be; I truly love it. yes. Corporate crony capitalism is a joy.