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bucolic_frolic

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5. How do you sell capitalist output if labor is a diminishing asset?
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 06:16 PM
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I just watched some doofus on a finance show spout off about GenZ being unable to afford anything and saying their best option is to invest in silver or commodities. Where do they get the money to invest if the cost of everything is so high? The components of the economic system have been rigged by capitalist interests to pay the wealthy. Full stop. You have your labor, for you. No one else is paying a living wage to the masses.

How do conservatives expect a baby boom with the cost of living today? Who can afford it?

Some things will always require labor. That's not the issue. How well labor is compensated is the question.

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