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Hanamii- t1_j7w304i wrote

Reply to comment by RIhawk in Red flag or am I paranoid? by Ants1nmyplants

It’s not shady at all, his company will charge 8-15% extra on the overall to cover overhead and profit. He’s saving the homeowner money and he’s making more by doing it himself. You just got unlucky with your situation lol

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RIhawk t1_j7w3que wrote

He should start his own company then and not steal work from his company. He should also provide proof of insurance. It’s one thing if he’s finding his own side work, but this just shows he’s willing to fuck over his employer. Why wouldn’t he cut corners on the project. I’ve been building for 25 yrs theirs more shady then honest people.

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fishythepete t1_j7wdwpd wrote

8-15%? Not even close. Insurance, overhead, markup, probably doubling the cost to go through his employer for a smaller job like this. It’s also worth it.

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DankDabRips t1_j7xmy4e wrote

Stealing work from your employer is as shady as it gets

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Regular-Desk233 t1_j7xzblj wrote

Making money off of other people’s labor is as scummy as it gets. Muh capitalism

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DankDabRips t1_j8rzefp wrote

No that’s how the world works. If we all worked for ourselves we would crumble in no time.

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Regular-Desk233 t1_j8t946q wrote

What if the work benefited society as a whole as opposed to a very small percentage? We already have socialism in US it’s just corporate socialism. I’m asking them to stop hoarding 99/100 pie pieces for themselves while the rest of us fight over the crumbs. Just saying.

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DankDabRips t1_j8vblwx wrote

Society has proved time and time again we are incapable of this

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Regular-Desk233 t1_j8wnn0e wrote

We were incapable of everything until we did it. People couldn’t imagine an economy that didn’t involved Lords and Serfs yet here we are. Slavery was the only and natural way, until it wasn’t. We still need hierarchies and a system, just saying we can adjust this to create a more reasonable and socially beneficial situation.

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DankDabRips t1_j9alsv5 wrote

Sure people like you and I can and are willing to do what needs to be done for the better of all but most don’t. Most only care about themselves and that’s why it will never work and also the reason things are the way they are today.

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Regular-Desk233 t1_j9ca6w2 wrote

Vast majority of people are not nakedly greedy at the cost of others. Most live by fairly decent value systems. The small minority who don’t share any of that happen to have massive amounts of money and ability to bribe entire government. The keys to our collective cuffs are right in front of us, we are just too scared to unlock ourselves.

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DankDabRips t1_j9cdbyf wrote

I just feel regardless of how many genuine people with good morales there are there will always be enough to ruin it for everybody else. What do we do when everybody is doing there role but Steve on the corner doesn’t wanna share his harvest with the town, but he expects to be allowed to take from other peoples contributions without contributing any of his own. What do we do then? There has to be rules , there has to be a system, their has to be a hierarchy or it will NEVER work.

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DankDabRips t1_j8rznlb wrote

And putting those people who clearly can’t get work for them selves in position to work and making money off them is not scummy. It’s called one hand washes the other.

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