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by gruez 1321 days ago
> Are they going to increase pay to hire more nurses? No. Capitalism for me but not for thee.

Regardless of whether you think the nurses deserve the pay raise, I have a hard time understanding why you’d think that squeezing suppliers isn’t part of capitalism. For instance, I doubt people would call Apple anti capitalist for refusing to accept TSMC’s price hikes.

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> I have a hard time understanding why you’d think that squeezing suppliers isn’t part of capitalism.

I have a hard time understanding why healthcare should be capitalistic and have a capitalist class who profit from simply owning healthcare facilities.

I'm not trying to argue whether it ought to be capitalistic or not. Just that the parent poster's assertion that it was contradictory with capitalism, or there was some sort of capitalism double standard doesn't hold water.
Fair.