Jay H.People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.
40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.
Cassandrich@jhankins This is absolutely true, but I do think people miss feeling like their labor is producing something useful to people like themselves, rather than being a complete and utter bullshit job making their boss even richer and making people like themselves deal with more and more bullshit in their everyday lives.
fedops 💙💛@fedops @jhankins The idea of a jeans factory in the sense that exists now, producing millions of units with the intent that most be thrown away for tax writeoffs and most of the rest worn a few times and thrown away, is obsolete anyway if we want a world that will continue to be livable.
Imagine instead though that labor were about developing and operating manufacturing technology to produce only what's wanted on demand, materials that last and that can be efficiently reclaimed when they don't, etc.
Instead of jobs to convince & manipulate people to shop for garbage.
knack@dalias as someone with a pretty good understanding of tax in one or two jurisdictions - in which tax jurisdiction does it make sense to make things you _intend_ to throw out (as distinct from paying less tax as a result of making less profit because you couldn't sell as many as you made)?
To be clear, I'm not doubting you here, but it seems like a really strange way to structure tax law.