/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>17398078
>paying someone more than what they're willing to take
>being an wagie, and not learning how to negotiate a wage
if you don't learn how to stand up for yourself, you'll get trampled on all your life
don't get me wrong—i think that amazon, as it exists (heavily subsidized, townships (which private citizens are HEAVILY barred from creating entirely by legal nonsense) bending over backwards and guaranteeing unfair economic advantages to amazon in order to get their warehouses built in them, etcetera), is a total economic catastrophe, and heavily underlines the failures of central planning in that you have numerous governments essentially run on tax money and inflation (money that they did not, in fact, earn) all throwing money at this one perceived "good" for their people in the same way that a municipality might sink a whole bunch of money annually into fluoridating the entire town's water supply—but to criticize someone (amazon) over looking out for their own best interests, rather than acknowledging that where they are getting their power from are multiple bodies of people that make their money by making mere promises rather than engaging in voluntary commerce, is to assume that any random person among a collective of people knows what is in any particular individual's best interests, and knows how and when to act on these interests (and that they WILL act on them), more than the individual does

tl;dr collectivism sucks, individualism rocks, but everyone gets what they deserve no matter the system