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Comment by barfbagginus

Well it's a shell game, right? On the one hand here's this huge valuation and future profit. On the other hand, the workers get just a small fraction of that value and still live in squalor.

Is that where your billions come from? You comfortable with that?

That's not how I run my company.

You don't pay people less because you have them by the short and curlies of their own poverty. That is exploitive. You pay them a fair share of the value they're producing.

The problem is that if corporations did this, if they stopped exploiting, if they paid a fair share, then those billions in valuation magically vanish. It's because the valuation was predicated on exploitation to begin with.

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