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US Politics 20h

enemyofmyenemy

 How is this country going to improve education, help impoverished people, rebuild communities, and deconstruct insurance corruption when people think Starbucks employees are enslaved
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US Politics 21h
The stores with unions, aka, the stores where the employees can actually debate and argue for better treatment instead of just being told “just quit”. Y’all love the results of slave labor, but don’t support the slaves? Make it make sense
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Anonymous 20h

They aren’t literally slaves. They must rent their labour power to a corporation, whom usurps the surplus value created by their labour, to feed into more capital. It’s an orphan crushing machine that the majority of people must contribute to in some way. Even if it seems like a “soft” job, it’s still hours of your life taken from you

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

I don’t believe this is an accurate view of the situation. I don’t believe most employees of Starbucks would agree with your description of their employment. People who want money ask Starbucks to pay them for making coffee.

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Anonymous replying to -> enemyofmyenemy 19h

You think they do it just because they like making coffee?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

1. People need things 2. You must trade goods and services to get things 3. Currency is used in place of goods and services to exchange for things 4. People want currency 5. Starbucks has currency 6. People ask Starbucks for currency 7. Starbucks gives them currency, but only after making coffee

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Anonymous replying to -> enemyofmyenemy 19h

How does Starbucks exist? They’re like everywhere, how did it get like that?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

1. People have extra currency 2. People spend currency on coffee 3. Starbucks made good coffee 4. Lots of people buy lots of coffee 5. Starbucks goes to wherever people want coffee

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Anonymous replying to -> enemyofmyenemy 19h

How did they manage to do this? Aren’t the resources to make all this coffee and paying people to make the coffee expensive?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

It is relatively cheap to get coffee beans and pay someone to make coffee. Once you sell a lot of coffee, and want to sell even more coffee, maybe in a different location, then you have to buy a lot of beans and pay a lot of people. Operating at scale is expensive.

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