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Cheese Sandwich

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3. What do you mean it's not affordable?

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Reply #2)

Wed May 25, 2016, 12:53 AM

May 2016

I agree but I just want to see what you mean. Do you mean like actually providing a decent living for everyone would cut into capital accumulation so much that the system would just cease to function? Isn't that pretty much where we are right now with owners turning to automation, and shipping production overseas? The system already seems to be pretty broken.

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