> Of course not. It is precisely because they have to fight for scraps that this is the place where workers are beaten down the most, because the owners are making pretty damn sure they will be the ones to get that margin lining their pockets, everyone else be damned.

My class-brained friend, margin is what you get after wages, not before.

I was talking about the supposed oppression of customers through high prices, but it’s typical that communists imagine that the purpose of an enterprise, private or public is to provide jobs to union workers rather than to actually useful products or services to customers.