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I hate leftist articles like this, because they ignore the right-wing perspective. If I'm an evil greedy capitalist paying for labor by the hour, why should I care about longer hours vs. just hiring more employees?
nytimes.com/2019/04/21/opi…

Wages in China can be as low as $1/hour. Why should I, the greedy evil capitalist, want to force 50 employees to work 80 hour weeks for $4000, when I can just have 100 employees work 40 hour weeks for the same $4000???
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The lefty argument is that forcing employees to work longer hours makes them less efficient. Why can't greedy capitalists see that? It means they'd be getting less productivity from the 50/80 mix than the 100/40 mix for their $4000. Why are evil capitalists failing at greed???

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