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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
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The funny thing is treating your workers well enhances their performance and productivity so the company literally gets their money's worth.
This is a known factor between paid farm workers and prison slave labor (or immigrants exploited once they're locked in), the coerced worker does a shit job while the well-treated laborer is worth the extra expense.
It's a pattern that recurs from the mailroom to the upper management, so it doesn't make rational sense why the c-suite doesn't endorse deluxe benefits packages and accommodations for their work force.
They just like the sound of ruling with a hammer, and having an entourage, so our execs run their businesses like tyrants.
It also might provide for short term profit gains, but those run out very quickly for the shareholders, encouraging them to sell off.
Source: Macroeconomics 101 circa 1986 plus research into why AAA game companies still crunch their dev teams.
Well. Yes and no.
Most labor jobs benefit most from young bodies.
So it's in a companies best interest to get rid of older people. It's cheaper to replace them than keep them healthy.
If the bottom line is to maximize profits over sustainability.
So it's illegal to fire people for being old. But if you work them hard and their body can't do the work you can fire them for low productivity.
The corps are literally designing a system to reduce life span to keep production up with little investment on their end.
By promoting birth rates , they intend to make jobs more scarce to reduce wages.
By removing social services and criminalizing homeless , they intend to do forced prison slave labor.
But they are not very bright. The very things that keep people desperate to take low wage jobs decreased birth rates.
So. Not going to work out for them.
There's a wide age-span of ability for labor, typically. A twenty-year-old laborer is not necessarily going to outperform a forty-year-old enough to be choosy. And then there's the matter of skill and experience: even the most trivial roles are benefited by workers who actually know what they're doing. The rank-up may not be the two-to-three years that differentiates ordinary seamen from able but even a year of experience is often a big difference.
At the point you've simplified a task so that it can be done by exploited or truly unskilled labor, you might have simplified it enough to be automated.
I was imagining as a for-instance, picking fruit on the field for fancy produce (that is produce sold to the consumer, not cycled into meal or processed food). Harvesting of this kind of produce benefits from both skill and care for the worker. So again, rudimentary farm-work is not an ideal venue either for prison or trafficked labor treated as slaves.
Unless you don't care about the quality of your output, in which case, automation may serve better.
Yes you are on point. The person who wrote the project 2025 book is an idiot.
His reductive simplification of how to control workers and reap the rewards is just so obviously wrong.
They say in the book that they will keep Americans uneducated and working labor. But what labor ? Picking some fruits and veggies is almost the only only low skill job out there.
Running machines, even filling orders and delivery requires knowledge and skills.
Project 2025 says they will bring in h1b people for all the skilled work.
They are ignorant about how many skilled workers are needed to run a country or any given industry.
They basically say they will work the immigrants hard and give them no protections. They can't complain about wage theft, or the government , or sexual harassment cause if they do, they will get deported.
Like bro. So you will threaten them with deportation back to their country that provided them with their education? Oh it must be so much worse over there than in this dystopian U.S the heritage foundation has planned.
Ain't no skilled workers flocking to work in Russia or North Korea.
They aren't going to be coming here.
They also say kids will be forced to work and teen girls will have forced pregnancy.
These people are sick and also stupid.
Teen pregnancy more likely to end in miscarriages, unhealthy babies, and permanent infertility of mother from complications.
They just literally know nothing about anything. That project 2025 book is full of nonsense that a 12 year old could have written. A 12 year old with very little understanding of how the world works.