• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Dining out is CRAZY now.

    My wife and I were out and about last weekend and needed to eat so we hit a Burger King.

    Meals for 2, nothing crazy, was $30… at freaking BURGER KING. We don’t even have a sales tax here.

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      Workers wanted an increase in pay, so shareholders needed to offset that by even more. Workers can’t get a raise without shareholders getting a raise.

      Inflation is majority driven by profit, not wages. Dems barely attack that angle. Republicans actively work against it.

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          1 year ago

          Shareholders provide economic value (it’s literally in the name) and are not rent-seeking by definition

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              1 year ago

              Shareholders are key investors and are the principal drivers of M&A and infrastructure investment.

              Disagreeing with the idea that companies exist to drive shareholder returns does not change the actual purpose of shareholders, nor suddenly cause them to be rent-seekers.

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                You brought an economics argument to a rage thread. OP isn’t making a technical claim when they say “rent seeking behavior”, they’re angry and using it as a synonym for “greedy people”.

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                  I don’t tilt at these windmills for the people arguing nonsense, but for people scrolling by.