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Abuse a contract workforce

It’s not exploitation, it’s fueling small business innovation.
It’s not exploitation, it’s fueling small business innovation. Photo: Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images (Getty Images)

Employees are expensive and irritating. They never stop whining about things like “salary” or “benefits,” and they have this annoying tendency to unionize. Fortunately, the savvy tech CEO knows exactly how to subcontract out core functions and bust unions, ensuring they can underpay and ignore labor conditions for huge segments of their workforce.

This is to say that to become a tech magnate, Trump would ideally have a long and unquestionable history of backstabbing or stiffing virtually every single person who has ever worked for him.