|
Split Pea Superman posted:Lol that's exactly what the Other is. People don't justify their anti-social behavior with "see those guys over there? They've had a real poor go at life. They're beaten down, weak, and dejected which means it'll be real easy for us to take all their stuff". The story is that *they're* the one who had the poor go at life, and so when they're stealing and commiting wanton acts of violence it's because they're actually a hero righting the wrongs of someone that's much more well to do. Have you ever had to eat plain white bread? Have a cop roll up on you at 2 am and tell your mom to move the car because you can't sleep in this parking lot? Watch the church folks that you grew up around completely ignore that you need help? I've seen others get hosed over and been hosed over enough that maybe I think it is wrong that someone who doesn't do any actual work can live a life of such luxury that they don't even know how bad their workers have it. He's playing with his workers livelihoods like they're chess pawns. It's loving sickening and you're pretending that people seeing the wrong in this are just jealous. I don't want to live like a loving billionaire. Or even a millionaire. I'm actually quite happy with my one bedroom apartment with my wife and our few cats. What I'm not happy with is that the medical bills from her appendicitis that we're currently in the hospital for could lead to us being homeless, from a random medical emergency. I'm not happy that there are people in my neighborhood going without food, or walking miles to work each day because they can't get their beater car fixed and someone stole their bike. She just got back from having some scans done so I won't be back to the thread for a while, bye.
|
#
?
May 16, 2018 23:08
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 18, 2024 10:50 |
|
|
Solid Poopsnake posted:this is literally what the wealthy think tho Seems like Bezos would be more than happy to lay out more homeless bait in Seattle if this were the case.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2018 23:10
|
|
|
comedyblissoption posted:A more powerful comparison would be the social projects (alleviating poverty, climate change research, education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc.) that could be funded instead of the dimensions of physical currency. That money could be used to maybe not force amazon workers to wear diapers. All that poo poo apparently slipped bezos' loving mind though and he can only think of rocket ships. Bezos is literally going to be Wallace from Blade Runner 2049 in 15 or so years.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2018 17:49
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/helaineolen/status/997541578834153473
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2018 21:56
|
|
|
steinrokkan posted:i remember the last time a millionaire worked a day building a factory / working at the factory floor I do, that vile show on CBS that humanizes porky. The creator and producers of that show really will after a very short trial just get the wall if they live long enough to see the revolution. Split pea if you cannot work with people at all, it might mean that you need an operation to fix your brain. Crowsbeak fucked around with this message at 01:43 on May 20, 2018 |
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 01:39
|
|
|
Crowsbeak posted:Split pea if you cannot work with people at all, it might mean that you need an operation to fix your brain. misunderstood future captains of industry always have externalities for why they're an utter failure at everything other than prepping a go bag
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 02:00
|
|
|
Magnitogorsk. posted:humans collaborate more frequently and effectively under a capitalist system. There is quite literally nothing that can generate camaraderie like the knowledge that the rich are loving all of us over so this is technically accurate.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 02:57
|
|
|
the system works!
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 02:58
|
|
|
Former DILF posted:the system works! You know how they use to have the breaking on the wheel?
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 06:19
|
|
|
quote:Murphey admitted falsifying paperwork, including orders to not resuscitate patients. Lol jfc How come this isn't a murder trial vs a Medicare fraud trial wtf
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 07:15
|
|
|
COMRADES posted:Lol jfc You know the answer 
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 07:44
|
|
|
murders hard to pin, if they can first prove willful malice with a smaller charge it would be easier to make it stick later. if they don't seek justice on the deaths at the moment, someone else can still make that case. The laws cited in this case would be double jeopardy, so if it was a murder one charge and nothing else, that would be hosed up
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 07:49
|
|
|
So you mean that with very very poor health care and profit-driven medical interests, that the sick and old end up forced into, into a, God, like a death panel or something!
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 09:15
|
|
|
the sooner putin nukes this country off the face of the earth the better
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 09:43
|
|
|
Former DILF posted:murders hard to pin, if they can first prove willful malice with a smaller charge it would be easier to make it stick later. if they don't seek justice on the deaths at the moment, someone else can still make that case. The laws cited in this case would be double jeopardy, so if it was a murder one charge and nothing else, that would be hosed up counterfeiting DNRs seems like a slam dunk murder case?
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 20:29
|
|
|
COMRADES posted:Lol jfc they were only killing those people (who were just going to die ANYWAY) for the good of the company coffers! i mean, we can't disincentivize simple profit seeking behavior! that's just crazy!
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 21:09
|
|
|
Tbh families do the same cost/benefit with DNRs all the time, and since in America corporations are just people but without accountability why is anybody shocked
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2018 21:50
|
|
|
Cross posting. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/ Wonderful article not because it tells us what we already know. The "Meritocratic elite" are screwing us, wealth inequality is increasing health problems happen more in the poor. But because at the end, out effete liberal can't be bothered to come up with policy prescriptions..
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2018 20:48
|
|
|
the elite screwing everyone else is what they're supposed to do in capitalism if they weren't doing that, it wouldn't be capitalism I glanced through the article and it doesn't seem to recognize that the system is fundamentally the player here. It just tut tuts at people doing what they are supposed to do in the system and hoping for liberal reforms.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2018 22:27
|
|
|
comedyblissoption posted:the elite screwing everyone else is what they're supposed to do in capitalism That it cannot even bother to actually lay out. That's how impotent liberalism has become.
|
|
#
?
May 23, 2018 22:33
|
|
|
comedyblissoption posted:the elite screwing everyone else is what they're supposed to do in capitalism that's pretty normal, most articles never really recognize the root issue and instead push some reformist agenda
|
|
#
?
May 24, 2018 21:02
|
|
|
Yes oligarchies are unique to capitalism. You nailed it.
|
|
#
?
May 26, 2018 05:37
|
|
|
BULBASAUR posted:that's pretty normal, most articles never really recognize the root issue and instead push some reformist agenda It couldn't even say what reforms were neceserry though.
|
|
#
?
Jun 1, 2018 22:38
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 18, 2024 10:50 |
|
|
Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Yes oligarchies are unique to capitalism. You nailed it. Yes, oligarchies are the result of people of people using their capital to control others. Capitalism is new as an explicit economic system by which to organize society, but capital is as old as agriculture, when people became able to stockpile food and dictate the course of other's lives on the basis of the property they owned. Similarly socialism is far older Marx, I mean just take a look at what Jesus said and did - he's was a total extreme leftist revolutionary. Edit: aw poo poo I necroposted
|
|
#
?
Aug 11, 2018 14:51
|
|