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What is work for, what are jobs for?

As a capitalist business, you have to fire people who can't do the work, or you can't find work that they can do, so long as you don't destroy morale by doing that.

But as a society, it's a human right to work or at least 'earn a living', even people who are not competent.

And honestly I think sometimes our current brand of rabid financial capitalism is the reason people won't do the work, seeing the owner drive a Ferrari while they struggle with rent, amid wage freezes and layoff threats.

So I don't know the answer, apart from violent revolution, lol.




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