Question

[BlueKota]

If all working people's wages are cut to indentured servant levels, or workers are replaced with AI, Social Security and Medicare are drastically cut, who the hell is going to be able to afford to buy the crap Amazon and Walmart sell? A lot of people won't even be able to buy food probably,
let alone buy drugs from pharmaceutical industries.

Are the corporate tax cuts really going to cover all the lost sale revenue? I don't get why corporate owners think all this is a good idea? Can someone explain?

[Otto_Harper]

1. Basically, because Narcissistic Sociopaths

have a very hard time thinking about impacts and outcomes. Their actions are based primarily on short term gain and gratification.

[BlueKota]

2. That makes sense as to why.

[live love laugh]

9. ... and don't forget cruelty ... they love it.

[Irish_Dem]

13. These are sadistic psychopaths and they know exactly the outcome of their cruelty: death and suffering.

They get off on that part.

[Alice B.]

3. This was my question

Do big corporate interests really want their consumers dragged into some economic hellscape? Do their shareholders?

I mean, unless the 1% are all planning on f'ing off to New Zealand or wherever they have their bunkers, after they're done looting and pillaging?

Is a world in that kind of chaos, where you have to flee in your private jet, really that appealing?

I'm thinking of a Hollywood Reporter article I read a few years ago about survival planning among the wealthy.

This seems short-sighted to me, too. And while TFG's voters might not learn any valuable lessons unless s*** gets really real, I'd almost take some unlikely heroes in the form of Big Business. OMG, actually, I would take it.

[BlueKota]

5. Me too.

My sister wonders why pharmaceutical research and sales companies are willing to forgo the profits they make off vaccines, if Kennedy succeeds in getting them banned? What if he goes after psychiatric drugs next, that would definitely be killing their cash stream? What about the chemical companies that manufacturer and sell fluoride? Will he stop at just taking it out of the water? Will fluoride tooth paste stop being sold too? That would make dentists happy but who is going to afford to go them anymore? This just doesn't make sense.

That reminds me to add toothpaste to my grocery list.

[Irish_Dem]

14. The GOP psychopaths do not care if they ruin some corporations. Collateral damage. Too bad.

[Alice B.]

18. Right?! And the cereal companies?!

[magicarpet]

4. You don't get it ?

Buy stocks in funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoriums, cemeteries. Under Project 2025 all companies associated in the death industry are expected to boom, enjoying obscene profits.

[BlueKota]

8. That makes sense

in addition I suppose it will reduce the competition for dwindling natural resources the more of us they kill off.

[magicarpet]

15. With Robotics and Artificial Intelligence,..

.... sorry we don't need you anymore, you were sort of a burden anyways.

All your insurance policies have been cancelled, health, dental, life, home, appliances, and boat - warrantees & insurances. Your bank accounts, ATM, and credit cards have all been closed down.

You have heard of living off the grid,... well - get used to it.

[Phoenix61]

6. They've forgotten how the game of Monopoly ends. nt

[BlueKota]

10. Yep

[Irish_Dem]

7. The oligarchs will have sucked all of the money out of the US economy

and own the US Treasury.

They don't need to sell worthless crap to suckers and losers any more.

[BlueKota]

11. That makes sense

[Straw Man]

12. That's the conundrum of capitalism, in a nutshell ...

It depends on endless growth, but in reality nothing is endless. Somebody else made the monopoly analogy, and it's apt: When one player owns everything, the game is over.

[doc03]

16. Henry Ford gave his workers $5 a day so they could afford to buy the cars they built. He

was still an anti-union NAZI at heart though. But even he realize if working people don't have any money they don't buy things.
I bought a new car in 2020 today a 2025 car equipped the same is 25% more.

[Ysabel]

17. There are too many of us and we are kind of...

rowdy we like our freedoms we aren't like Russians or the Chinese who have been isolated in a worse way than we have been (yeah there's that USA number One isolationist thing going on sure but still) a lot of us have enjoyed certain amounts of freedoms and we definitely don't want to give them up...

So we get pissed off more easily when people try to take our freedoms away and we (at least we Democrats) understand that other people want more freedom too and we are okay with that unlike the Repukes...

Also some of the population has done pretty well and gets to work at home and they're very happy about that and are not about to go back. These people are highly skilled specialists and are in high demand so they can pick and choose where they work...to a certain extent...and the owners know that so they've had to make it possible...

These highly skilled people are not especially expendable and workplaces have to give them incentives to stay at these workplaces because they know that these people can easily get another better paying job anywhere anytime...

But the rest / service workers and such are not in such high demand. Their jobs are not highly specialized. They are more expendable and the owners of lower paying service industries know they can get away with not making things better for these workers - unfortunately (and that is not meant to be a pun) that is a reality...

So yeah a lot of people are expendable and oh yeah to answer the question - they (the Repukes) can do without a lot of us / we are expendable and they'd rather NOT deal with us / they would just rather we die...

They certainly do not want to give us social security or foodstamps or cards or whatever it is people get these days and AFDC or whatever welfare is called now...

They truly wish us to die...