Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?message-squaremessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down145file-text
arrow-up1158arrow-down1message-squareIs it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?Camzing@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square146fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoNot really. Dividends always include value stolen from the workforce and the end customer in low pay and shoddier quality as enforced via a policy of shareholder primacy. Anyone who hold stocks in a private company is stealing from the public.
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNot since Dodge v. Ford Motor Company Das Kapital explains its inevitability.
minus-squarevalkyrie@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhere is an ethical place I can put my retirement money then?
Not really. Dividends always include value stolen from the workforce and the end customer in low pay and shoddier quality as enforced via a policy of shareholder primacy.
Anyone who hold stocks in a private company is stealing from the public.
Gross oversimplification
Not since Dodge v. Ford Motor Company
Das Kapital explains its inevitability.
Where is an ethical place I can put my retirement money then?