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I would love to see the capitalists held accountable for the way they treat their workers, but I believe their decisions are primarily dictated by profits, regardless of what they say.

Hard questions can surely be asked, but once you weed through all of the empty narrative, you pretty much end up with the reason: extracting profits.

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Even there, I think there can be usefully hard questions. Because I suspect what the CEOs are focused on is not the long-term profits that come from building healthy companies, but the short-term profits that come from juicing the numbers in ways that look good to the market on a day-to-day basis.

It is hard to find anyone who honestly suggests it is otherwise.

It was never about the workers. Layoffs are because companies think the workers cost more than they make. Everything else is just bickering over why they think this.

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