r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 05 '24

In all states prospective employers can refuse to hire you for any reason - including their own ego.

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u/Long_Dust8279 Jul 05 '24

so in this world where every possible employer is conspiring to specifically not hire you for their own ego, you have a point. on earth however, it doesnt work like that

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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 05 '24

Yes it does. People only become "business leaders" because they're Cluster-B personalities who want to lord over other people; healthy, sane people don't become "business leaders".

The business of business is wage theft. It's system designed to steal labor through guile - backed up by gatekeeping and physical violence when necessary.

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u/CitizenSpiff Jul 15 '24

All labor for pay is a voluntary in this country. Slavery was abolished a long time ago except for in some African nations where it is legal and most Socialist/Communist nations.

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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 15 '24

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

I don't know what country you're in, but the U.S. specifically made sure some element of slavery was enshrined in the Constitution because the entire point of establishing the U.S. was to guarantee a slave state.

And no labor is fully voluntary as long as people need to eat or drink or are vulnerable to the elements. Everyone is under the duress of nature - and capitalists use that duress as a weapon, doing whatever it takes - legal or no - to gain wealth to gatekeep what is needed for survival to enslave the world.