☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to canada@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agoCanada’s living standards alarmingly on track to be the lowest in 40 years: studynationalpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10cross-posted to: canada@lemmy.cacanadacanada@lemmy.ca
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minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoAnd that’s the problem with GDP as a metric of quality of life in a nutshell. You can have really high GDP by exploiting the shit out of the workers.
minus-squareashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoEndgoal of capitalism, yes?
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoexactly, the system is working as intended
And that’s the problem with GDP as a metric of quality of life in a nutshell. You can have really high GDP by exploiting the shit out of the workers.
Endgoal of capitalism, yes?
exactly, the system is working as intended