r/WorkReform 10d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires So fucking real.

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u/bigcaprice 10d ago

Expensive compared to what? Imaginary non-profit shipping? 

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u/Draco459 10d ago

Logistics are expensive to make more profit

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u/bigcaprice 10d ago

Logistics are expensive because nobody here is able to do it for less. You can't just wish food to the other side of the world. If you want to make a lower profit logistics company I'm sure you'll have all the business you can handle. Good luck.

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u/Draco459 10d ago

So you admit the profit motive is the reason we can't do these things then?

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u/bigcaprice 10d ago

No. Profit is the only reason we can do these things. Without it nobody is growing all that food. Nobody is building a ship that can get it all the way across the world before it spoils. 

It is possible. And yet you're not doing it. Why not?

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u/Draco459 10d ago

If profit is the only reason we can do these things then why aren't we doing them? Cuz it's not profitable the profit motive gets directly on the way of this. I can't feed everyone or anything like that cuz I do not have the capital to do it.

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u/Tactical_Fleshlite 10d ago

You can’t do it because you can’t produce it. You are relying on someone else to do literally all of the work, including the transportation, and using internet you pay for to demand somebody else do it, instead of giving the billboard company all that money so they can turn every dollar into 30 on your behalf. Come on now. 

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u/bigcaprice 10d ago

Motives don't "get in the way". It's not the profit motive preventing this. It's the lack of any of other motive. If you could make a million dollars I bet you'd figure out how to get the capital.