A Wizard of Goatse posted:

- a comedy forum where joyless retards can pay $10 to advance The Revolution by tweeting Wikipedia statistics at each other in the funny bad product thread

COMRADES posted:

Haha look at what a bootlick you are.

COMRADES posted:

The big majority of people are brought up in a system that shits all over them and tells them they are worthless aside from what profits they can make and then we act as if this is just natural human nature when we are surrounded by disillusioned bitter cynical adults who probably hate their lives.

COMRADES posted:

The big majority of people are brought up in a system that shits all over them and tells them they are worthless aside from what profits they can make and then we act as if this is just natural human nature when we are surrounded by disillusioned bitter cynical adults who probably hate their lives.

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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:

is this better or worse than growing up in a government-created famine where you father has killed someone and fed them to you at least once?

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Jessica Biel has been accused of withholding nearly half a million in tips from employees at her kid-friendly Los Angeles restaurant.

Nine employees at Au Fudge have filed a lawsuit against Biel and her four business partners, claiming that they never received tips that the restaurant charged clients for private events.

The group of disgruntled employees describe themselves as 'young adults new to the workforce and new to Los Angeles' who 'were ill-prepared to deal with the violations of their rights in the workplace.'

According to court documents, obtained by the Blast, Au Fudge charged a 22 per cent gratuity to clients who held private events at the West Hollywood eatery - but employees say that money was never passed down to them.
The lawsuit claims that the 'owners blamed the "glitch" on converting the private event gratuities to a single manager,' but they say they still didn't get the tips even after that manager was fired.

Desage says she confronted co-owner Jon Rollo, saying she believed it was 'against the law for Au Fudge's customers to pay gratuity and then have the restaurant fail to transfer the gratuity to employees who had direct contact with the customers'. She said he responded by saying: 'I don't think you understand. Don't worry about it.'

Another employee, Jamie Aronson, said she questioned a general manager about the practice and was met with a similar response. She said the GM told her '[not to] worry about it. It's all good. The customers are far more likely to be OK with 20 plus per cent if they think that amount is going to the employees.'

Additionally, the group says that they are owed $31,549 from state-mandated break periods which their bosses refused to let them take.

In addition to Biel, Au Fudge is owned by four others including: Barry's Bootcamp CEO Joey Gonzalez; Kim Muller, author of the children's book Au Fudge; stylist Estee Stanley; and Monica Saunders-Weinberg, the daughter of the Westfield Shopping Centers founder.

veni veni veni posted:

Might as well just stop complaining about hundreds of years of racial inequality and a tiny handful of people controlling most of the money in America.

SplitSoul posted:

As of last year, 8 people sit on the same wealth as half the planet.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Imagine what your week looks like working as hard as three and a half billion people!

Streak posted:

i find even the blandest, cheapest food tastes better when i know theres thousands of people in first world countries who still can't afford it so capitalism is pretty good, imo

Blue Star posted:

Capitalism is pretty bad, i think it would be good if people owned the means of production. So instead of just the boss making money, everyone makes money. Like if a factory gets new robots, the human employees should all get a shair in the profit, not just the boss who owns the robots. We should all own the robots.

COMRADES posted:

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A recent overall increase in suicide attempts among US adults has disproportionately affected younger adults with less formal education and those with antisocial personality disorder, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, and a history of violence.

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However, despite policy and clinical initiatives aimed at reducing suicide, the rate of suicide in the United States increased by approximately 2% per year from 2006 to 2014. 3

Pitdragon posted:

the powerful elites have actually always been this way. you think that the pyramids were built by slaves? nuh-uh, actually the pharaohs built them. the only reason they don't build crazy things like that all the time anymore is because they realize they are so superior to everyone else and yet are kind and noble enough to sandbag themselves so that we don't feel bad

Festus The Fetus posted:

Slaves didn't build the pyramids, they used skilled paid labor.

Ocean Book posted:

The biggest failures of capitalism are -

1. The inversion of the typical subject-object relation of humans to their tools - in capitalism, the relationships between commodities determines the movements of human bodies.

2. The contradiction between the use-value and exchange-value of commodities means that we only indirectly product use-value, and the ability of the expansion of exchange-value to expand use-value seems to be declining.

2b. In capitalism you only earn when you are in the process of solving a problem, so a genuine solution (great use-value) has less exchange-value than continuous patch-work.

3. In capitalism labor is only worth money if it matches or exceeds the socially necessary labor time (SNLT), and the SNLT is always decreasing, which leads to stress and over work.

4. The alienation of the laborer from the product of their labor often makes laboring very unpleasant instead of the naturally fulfilling activity it can be.

5. 'The ability of society to do things' becomes confused with 'how much money is available to do a thing', as money appears to be necessary to completing social projects rather than the mere tool of social coordination that it is.

6. The 'workers and firms' model of capitalist economics is a perpetual motion machine and isn't coherent in a universe governed by thermodynamics.

7. A machine taking over an unpleasant task previously done by a human results in misery and deprivation rather than greater flourishing of human potential.

And probably others.

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

*takes poo poo as a child, adolescent and young adult* look at these whiners around me. I am the adult. I am at peace with the world. It's human nature to say gently caress you got mine. Now why can't we have charity take care of the poor instead of not quite defunding welfare? Why does it take a hurricane for people to work together? And what the heck is with all the homeless people? Katrina was 13 years ago!

Breakfast Feud posted:

really though what's the alternative?

Lacey posted:

NOT basing our society on the concept of infinite growth in a finite space?

COMRADES posted:

Breakfast Feud posted:

really though what's the alternative?