Hey Wall St Dudes-It's Not Just Your Ex-Workers Shouting With Signs-Its Your Ex-Customers TOO!

[kpete]

The tragedy of the modern commons is that Businessman Bob does not remember that his workers are Businessman Miguel's customers, and his customers are Businessman Miguel's workers. Every time a corporation fires a worker, they've just eliminated a consumer. Eventually there are no consumers (or not enough to support the system) and the businesses collapse. (This is what Marx meant when he said that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction.)

They've forgotten the wisdom of the boom years: to sell to this population, you also have to pay this population. You can't pay people in India to do labor that belongs here and still have Americans able to buy what you make. Where are you going to sell your products? Who will buy them? Central parts of any business plan, but the 1% seem to have forgotten it.

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Dudes, those aren't just your ex-workers out there with the signs and the shouting. They're your ex-customers, too - the lifeblood of your businesses. Maybe you should think about that. Think about it real hard. And after you've thought about it, you should get up off your asses and hire back those workers, and pay them a living wage instead of a pittance. (And don't tell me you don't have the money when you're sitting on a trillion bucks of bailout cash, mmmkay?)

Or you could go out of business. That's always an option, too, I suppose. That'd really show those dirty rotten hippies, now wouldn't it?

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/18/1027758/--OWS:-The-Tragedy-of-the-Modern-Commons?via=siderec