• plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    But that seems idealistic? Rich people absolutely warp economy, but that’s not only the issue of their freedom of buying newspapers/politicans.

    Imagine average billionaire wanting to buy a yacht: he employs something like 100 people in western world (netherlands/belgium) for 3 years to build the fucker.

    But because hypothetical billionaire exploits people (of say china) with average salary of 500 bucks a month to employ workers in europe for 3500 bucks a month, the end result is imperial core gets china products on the cheap and sells dear, so to say, so chinese worker gets doubly fucked, and european worker, while still exploited, can exist.

    Even more warping is the fact that to get the power to hire 100 workers and materials for yacht, billionaire has to exploit workers for 100 millions dollars, which means they have to extract 4000 labor.years of chinese worker salary to get a yacht, which they’ll use for one month in a year.

    That’s the problem of worker exploitation, not of the influencing state apparatus.