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  • SpezBroughtMeHere@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why is the proposed solution always to just pay people more and not just make things cost less? The only reason I can find is that making things cost less doesn’t provide a scapegoat for everybody to rally behind, even though it would be more effective.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Because the stock market is the economy as far as our leaders are concerned. And they decided that anything other than green line go up is abhorrent.

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      9 months ago

      Money is a means of determining the distribution of resources. It doesn’t matter if stuff costs less or if people make more money, what matters is that nessecities, at a minimum, are more equitably distributed. You can make that end goal take different forms. Money is a little awkward for that end because you use money to purchase both food and nice cars.