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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Oversimplifying but I think it's worth thinking about an angle I haven't seen here yet:
People to tend to trust Big Corporate care-givers and distrust private individual caregivers.
There are of course Good Reasons for this (Who do you sue if they hurt your loved one? Who licenses and trains them?), but among the Bad Reasons are: People just inherently trust a big name they've heard of before, especially if that big name has similarly gargantuan PR and legal departments who scrub any bad press away.
In other words, you could hire your neighbor to take care of your kids all day, but most people choose not to, and instead send much more money towards big businesses with massive overhead costs because people trust So And So National Healthcare more than Jane Doe.
True. I have been catching myself trusting big and familiar name over something new for years now. And then I remember that the bigger the name, the more their interests are against mine, and things become way trickier
Yeah, the bigger the company, the more your money goes to their overhead rather than the product or service itself.
The smaller, the smaller their pockets when it comes time to sue for something they did wrong.
Pros and Cons, like most things.