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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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It’s interesting the people are seen as a cost to be minimised, not an asset to be invested in. It’s the people who pay taxes, and that make corporations profitable. Keep them happy and healthy means more productive workers and more tax income for government and more profit for business.
Or apparently not according to the experts.
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You're neglecting the fact that the vast majority of employees are completely replaceable - and this is precisely how they're viewed.
Unless you have an advanced, specialized degree there's likely tens-of-thousands (or more) people who could readily replace you.
ESPECIALLY true for jobs like retail, foodservice, hospitality etc, some of which don't even require a HS diploma. McDonald's doesn't care if 25,000 of their employees die from COVID19 because they were forced to work during a pandemic as long as they keep the profits rolling in! When things blow over they will simply be replaced. And they'll never be held responsible for any negligence - good luck PROVING that anyone contracted a virus because they were forced to goto work; or for that matter weren't technically FORCED to work, but in reality they had to prevent themselves from ending up homeless and/or starving.
Hell MANY of those people are gonna be replaced by machines over the next decade anyways.