Ben Shapiro

It was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who got stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.

She's not making the argument she thinks she's making.

She really is not.

I half agree.

If you pay people to stay home or if you pay to supplement people's wages, that means that there is a downward pressure on wages because someone else is paying half the wages.

That is an argument against government subsidization of wages.

That is not an argument in favor of prying more money somehow out of the private employer.

She says the point is less about individual morality.

It's more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.

Again, the way to get wages up would be to reduce government dependency.

That would be the way.

She says we're talking about monopoly power.

She doesn't know what she's talking about, monopoly power.

This idea that billionaires are billionaires because they have quote unquote monopolies.

The only true monopoly in a free market system is a monopoly in which you get the government to regulate your competitors out of existence.

That is how monopoly actually works.

Rent seeking, wage theft, profiteering, stock buybacks, destabilizing house markets.

Again, profiteering, do you mean like charging people for a product or service?

Stock buybacks are not a form of monopoly power.

What is she talking about?