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at 0:05: "I totaled a car last week and I can't afford to replace it". I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?
I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: "I spent three and a half years building cars and I can't afford a home yet". That is a big problem, but I wouldn't attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.
I would, maybe not exclusively but have you seen how much the investor class profit and hoard?
But not exclusively.
You can point the finger to individual and foreign investors, but also to government policies (or lack thereof) that make that possible.
governments are on investors' pockets too and i think this is the biggest problem