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Fried Watermelon posted:Bullshit Jobs is the truest book every written about our job system Yeah especially when it goes into how many jobs are only there to help support or service other nonworkers or make up for the damage other bullshit jobs cause. Since thw book isn't just about people pulling phantom paychecks it's about asking 'does this job really do something that's needed?'
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TheMostFrench posted:These two make me laugh. I hate to think of who looks at a disposable phone battery and thinks 'Wow! So convenient!' especially when reusable ones have existed for ages. The iced coffee thing is just taken out of context. They're not selling you a 'coffee to iced coffee converter' to take home. 7-11 is prepacking ice in a cup that's probably fits their coffee lids and is more heat resistant than their big gulp to pour their hot coffee into it. This also gets them out of the liability of someone pouring hot coffee in a cup then adding ice and getting splashed.
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Larry Parrish posted:i dont like the idea of basic income on its own because it doesnt make any incentive for the corporations to actually offer any more or any better jobs or wages. that said its not a bad thing. its just yet another half-rear end social democratic idea that sort of patches a leak but doesnt do anything else UBI is neither inherently good or bad. If an extra supplement in a healthy entitlement system it can help rebalance working conditions because no one is going to do some jobs without better compensation if it's not the only thing keeping them from dying. If it replaces other aspects of the social safety net, or it's rolled out by a government thats end goal is to ensure as much money is funneled to the top then yeah it'll be bad. But the same thing happens with literally any policy. Hell look how Bezos just made "raising the minimum wage for amazon workers" a giant gently caress you that gutted benefits for those workers. Like you said there's a 0% of the plutocracy implementing the good version of UBI, but once again you could say that about any policy. Like even m4a could be watered down with work requirements, caps, excluded services and people, or otherwise be written as a way to just funnel more cash into corporations, but it doesn't make m4a an inherently bad policy.
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Oct 16, 2018 04:08
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Mr. Lobe posted:As a tall person I might actually prefer standing to the cramped quarters of your average airline seat of it was 3 hours or less I can't even fully stand up in the seating area, are you assuming the overhead luggage goes away in this scenario/it's all as high as the aisles? Because I'm almost certain that'd be 3 hours of you hunching over.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:03
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Grevling posted:It's still good to point out just how much workers have gotten screwed because a lot of people don't seem to realize how ridiculous things are now. Yeah like I keep bringing up how much it blows my mind that my grandfather was a high school grad and got a draftsman job at jpl that paid the modern equivalent of 80k+ and was able to support a family of 7 decently. Where as modern rocket scientists with a bs or higher can make less than that. Hell I'm an expert in my field and feel fortunate enough to make over the US household median income but I'm still far below that 80k mark and can barely support myself and my partner who made the grave mistakes of going into public education and having chronic illness so makes negative money.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:20
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actionjackson posted:Some people that need organs would be bad or ineligible deceased donor candidates. I'm pretty sure he's not advocating "you give up your kidney to get that liver you need", but instead the whole donor list you sign up for at the dmv where if your brain meats die the rest of your cadaver can be used to save lives.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:19
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drat automation is finally coming for my job, i can only hope to go down as the john henry of sucking dick
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Oct 27, 2018 02:06
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superjew posted:...are they going to sue the Netherlands next? "Netherlands brought to you by Pepsi' is gonna be lit!
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Nov 6, 2018 20:57
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starkebn posted:but they seems so transparently added to tank bills people don't like yeah that's specifically called a "poison pill" and is used just for that. It's really funny though when one side completely misjudges poo poo like Dems: "Sure, we're okay with dismantling the Iran deal and with it the last of Obama's legacy.... IF YOU ALSO SANCTION RUSSIA!!!!" Republicans: "Okay" Dems: "B-but..!"
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Here's some photos of Skid Row/Gallery Row in downtown LA to go with my  First a map.  Skid Row has always depressed me, and been really interesting. It borders the financial district and a street away from a police station too. In more recent years "Gallery Row" has popped up directly bordering skid row. Originally it was the cheap area artists could get space in, but gentrification kicked in and of course now it's nice bars and luxury housing. The city has largely outlawed homelessness, though is a bit more lax in enforcing those laws in certain areas of skid row as long as the poor stay in skid row and don't get too close to the rich or leave the defacto containment zone. They'll still send cop cars around 6 am to make sure everyone is awake and break up encampments/confiscate and destroy stuff of course. So we wind up with this  walking distance from this beautiful "public park"  the arts district park was constructed with over 1.5 million in public funds, and proudly displays banners saying as much. However, those gates require a key code that is only given to "district residents," ie the people living in the luxury housing across the street, not the homeless or any other Angelino who paid for the park. public spaces but only for the rich is capitalism.png as gently caress The Dipshit posted:Better weather, so people aren't stepping over corpses when it gets too cold. Also, a lot of states send their homeless to CA, a bunch of wealthier counties will buy their homeless bus tickets to LA, and Skid row has also had the problem of a bunch of hospitals dumping patients there. Coolness Averted has issued a correction as of 22:30 on Nov 15, 2018 |
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steinrokkan posted:All this LuLaRoe stuff looks absolutely hideous. I think I've seen some decent-ish stuff they made, but yeah those grandma closets are full of hideous trash that'll never move. Hurray for MLM leaving poor and dumb folks holding the bag
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Nov 20, 2018 22:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:Well, they're not wrong. Sucrose not so much though. So high fructose syrup then? Gotcha fam
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Nov 21, 2018 21:59
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Crazycryodude posted:That picture doesn't at all say ARE TROOPS to me, it's a white lady sitting in her corporate cocoon laughing at protesters getting tear gassed. Which seems pretty relevant for the past few years. yeah that's what I read it as too
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Dec 5, 2018 21:47
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AnoHito posted:Just put dirt cheap vodka in all of them and see how long it takes for anyone to notice. Gotta think like a real Captain of Industry here. so grey goose?
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Dec 5, 2018 22:10
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Moridin920 posted:It is very exploitative and lovely, all I was saying is that it isn't anything new. it wouldn't even be that bad if the lotto strictly went into giving a ton of money of winners, the real scam of the lottery is how much money lotto commissioners make and just how much gets funneled into the contractors they use. 6 figures in almost all 50 states, with a few going over 300k in base salary with nearly half a million on the table for bonuses too -And in all states it's not an elected position, but instead a governor's appointment.
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Pirate Radar posted:instead of motion sensors, an eye-tracker that only activates the faucet when you’re looking at the ad wave your hands and shout "I love mcdonald's!" to turn faucet on.
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Dec 8, 2018 12:53
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til driving to work is just like smoking and works on the same demand curve
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Hey larry you work at pizza hut right? Did they ever tell you what that new buck per order 'california related extra business costs' fee is? I hope it's for the new min wage and not some extra bullshit like their passing on a fuel charge. Also do they gently caress over the employees when a 'we hosed up an order here's a 5 buck credit'? Gets issued? Still guaranteed business, and I didn't even raise a stink dude just automatically gave it to me.
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Dec 9, 2018 06:01
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Screaming Idiot posted:Anything that separates the rich and their wealth is a good thing. That's why I don't get upset for a luggage company forcing rich bastards to buy thousands of dollars of lovely wooden crap to prove themselves "worthy" of buying a handbag for half a million dollars. We live in a world with finite resources, and very few of the hucksters are playing robin hood with the stolen money. So things aren't exactly improved. Hell the game is rigged enough that the rich can pass any loss on to the workers.
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Jon Joe posted:I don't think it's accidental that only food companies are going down the ironic depressive messaging route. lower end food is probably the only thing millennial and younger consumers can afford, so it's one of the few brand segments actively trying to appeal to them
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mehall posted:So they'll close the factory in 29 years from then then? They also won't ramp up and hit the promised number of jobs and pay until they're given more gravy (such as extra years tax free). Foxconn is pretty well known for duping dumb and corrupt local officials into poo poo deals they never hold up their end of.
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I guess that just doesn't phase me in a world with gas station crackpipes or where a dude wanted to bring a bbq propane tank sized 'butane lighter refills' to market I just wish those golden coke spoons went to as much effort to make up a story about why they definitely were not meant for drugs.
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Moridin920 posted:GBS thinks it is hilarious that I don't particularly care if some random from the internet bought my gf a PS4 off her anonymous Amazon wishlist because nerds trip over themselves when they hear a girl on voicechat doesn't it have the extra layer of her also doing camshows? Or was that another goon that gbs tripped over and totally-for-joke-reasons fixated on having a sexworker partner? y'know like how they kept ironically asking to see pictures of pick, it was just normal humor-jokes, not at all weirdos being weird. on the drug paraphernalia capitalism.png front thing I'm trying to dig up some old drafts of labels idiots sent to my old company. They were buying a legit chemical product but were tripping over their dicks to give a wink and a nod to using it for drug processing. Since it wasn't a controlled substance we had no obligation to stop them, but kept trying to keep them from shooting themselves in the foot or get someone killed with off-label use of highly flammable gasses.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:looks like he had leukemia, got a bone marrow transplant (insanely expensive), leukemia returns, years of chemo (big money) which resulted in fatally damaging his heart Yeah that's the thing I saw ordering out the other day and got me asking about pizza stuff. I hope it backfires royally. Like instead of people rioting that the gubment raised their cost of food they say 'wait, so a livable wage for the workers only costs me a buck a meal? Sold."
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Muscle Wizard posted:i legit thought these were all the same person until i saw the names underneath. I still refuse to believe they aren't
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Mill Village posted:Bankrupt a company, get rewarded for your efforts! lol and it's perfectly legal for the rear end in a top hat who.ran the company into the ground to then buy the remaining assets for pennies on the dollar too. After giving himself those bonuses.
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Shear Modulus posted:it makes it so you never have to pay property taxes. under prop 13 the house's assessed value for tax purposes only gets updated to the new fair market value when it is sold. it was designed with this huge fuckoff loophole where a shell company can own the house and you can sell the shell company which means the house itself is never sold so you still pay tax on the 1978 value. Also it lets him do stuff like just declare the llc is bankrupt if he doesn't wanna comply with that order then do an abc bankruptcy and buy assets off it ir do other tricks like dissolve it to get out of trouble.
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wanna see that dude's opinion of work clothes after a day of working at farmer john's
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zegermans posted:skinhead depiction selling CBD oil called boner Real dissapointed in all the goons ignorant of gay porn icons itt
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The Bloop posted:Star Trek was always Hard Decisions Now that we tortured some folks, the most moral choice is to do the bad thing for good reasons, but feel bad about it or at least hesitate enough to signal it's a tough call.
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Accretionist posted:-- or that episode where Garak and he False Flag the Romulans into war against the Dominion with a plot involving the murder of a Romulan official. Yeah I was thinking the false flag one. The show didn't interest me much as a kid, but I saw it as an adult (in a post 9/11 world) and it frankly didn't seem that unusual given the lovely stuff our leaders were doing and how the media landscape had changed. But then reading about it later I found out when the episode aired it was a very divisive one, since it was a clear case of the captain doing a very bad thing, and didn't have any sort of handwave of "Oh it was a bluff" or "Hey he knew something that made it okay!" and folks couldn't recall that ever happening on Star Trek. Like even that WMD one has "Oh no it's planets where humans aren't the native species, but this weapon just means for 50 years humans can't live here, but it doesn't kill them if they leave and other species can still survive. Also these are specifically planets full of a rogue sect of military personnel waging a guerilla war against the actual natives of the area."
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Piell posted:Saw this in another thread, I think it fitrs here the chart and article are a 100% accurate break down of how to win at capitalism, don't know why y'all are mad 1. Be born a rich and white dude 2. Ride that gravy train FOREVER
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D.Ork Bimboolean posted:Blockbuster literally almost imploded because they at one point, in order to compete with Netflix/Redbox stopped charging late fees. Not to long after their collective soiled underwear was changed, they began to impliment various 'restocking' fees which of course were just late fees++ which they eventually got sued for. Blockbuster is always going to be one of the icons of 'how not to deal with online competition' nah, the end of late fees was always "No late fees, but we sell you the media after x days, you can return that for a refund (minus 5 buck restocking fee) within y days." I worked at blockbuster when they rolled it out. Their plan before digital streaming was to be a loss leader. Every other brick and mortar store would have to drop late fees too and suffer -and they had much bigger coffers since at that time Hollywood Video was the only other chain and it was going out of business and they launched their own netflix-esque service. This was when netflix was still mail only. So their big value add was coupons for free in store rentals, and if you dropped off a mailed in movie in store you could get a free in store rental while you waited for the next stuff in your queue to get mailed in. By the time streaming was viable they kinda saw the writing on the wall and were just looking to sell off Blockbuster as an IP and escape with golden parachutes. Pirate Radar posted:sounds weird to count public universities as private employers not when they're run like a business instead of a public service 
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Moridin920 posted:I think I might be wrong on the Christian stuff for Goodwill though and conflating with salvation army goodwill didn't have the Christian stuff iirc it's Salvation Army that's had the anti-gay stuff, and kicks women outta their shelters and sometimes then sells the person's stuff. Goodwill did have a big scandal about 10 years ago where store level and regional management was stealing some of the best donations tho
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Animal-Mother posted:
Yeah the very last of them started closing this decade. I wanna say 2014 or so. In 2007 they still thought they could stay in business. 2008 is when they began realizing they were in trouble. But even then blockbuster had declared bankruptcy and been bailed out several other times, so didn't realize jist how screwed they were.
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I'm beginning to think this whole capitalism thing might be bad
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Jack2142 posted:Man I don't remember sports in Highschool being some huge thing like people are making it out to be. It kinda depends on the region. My high school didn't go all in on football (partially because the team sucked, and there was a national champion team 2 miles) but practically bankrupted itself on building a new pool for the water polo and swim teams.
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Bushiz posted:also most people's actual exposure to gyms is school gyms in middle/high school, which are run by maladjusted psychopaths with something to prove and populated by horny sociopaths. As a horny sociopath where am I supposed to work out? Fyi I'm not allowed within 200 yards of a school so that's right out.
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