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ProfessorGAC

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10. Or, On A More Positive Side...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Reply #2)

Fri May 30, 2025, 01:35 PM

May 2025

...they create jobs to grow the company which in turn makes them more money.
There were industrialists in our past that raised pay above market to both attract the best workers & to make customers of their workforce.
That's even happened in the last 30 years, so it's not just Henry Ford & an aging Carnegie.

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