• Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So I don’t get it.

    One side of corporate mouth: Old people are too expensive and they don’t obey. We need to fire them so we can hire cheap, malleable, young people.

    Other side of corporate mouth: Old people must work until they physically collapse and die at their station. There is therefore no room to hire additional workforce from the younger generation.

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      8 months ago

      The goal is to have an seeming excess of workers to drive salaries down and hire young people who don’t know better and have fit boddies