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- Comment on Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent 2 days ago:
No, but a boy can dream…
- Comment on Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent 2 days ago:
In the before times, when corporate and marginal income tax rates were high and stock buybacks were illegal, a business could do two things with its profit:
- Reinvest it into the business, as employee compensation, equipment or facilities, and/or
- Pay taxes.
In the 1980s, we gave them a third option:
- Keep the money …which for some reason was supposed to not encourage the rich to hoard money and/or engage in non-productive financialization.
The rich, of course, hoarded and engaged in financial engineering pretty much immediately, and everyone else, which meant employees, suffered for it.
If you look at wages-vs-productivity curves you can see society “break” in the 1980s, with the rich running away with their wealth and everyone else getting stuck in a quagmire of low wages and starved public services.
So that’s why high progressive taxation helps employee: it forces the rich to either invest or find the nation.
- Comment on Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent 2 days ago:
What does Jeff’s yacht cost? Half a billion? And he paid to widen a canal to dock it?
We do not tax these people anywhere near enough.
- Comment on LPCAMM2 upgradeable RAM for laptops sounds awesome 5 days ago:
Sucks to be anyone who owns a Dell Precision 7670 because you paid for the R&D for this format but can’t benefit from it.
- Comment on How ‘Zionist’ became a slur on the US left 6 days ago:
Nationalism is almost always bad, why should Israeli Nationalism be any different?
Ask yourself: if it was any other country or ethnicity, would it be “good” nationalism? Would an American or Russian Nationalist worry you? How about a Rwandan or Serbian nationalist?
Chances are the answer is “yes” (unless you’re a fascist), so why does Israeli nationalism get a free pass?
- Comment on I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality? 1 week ago:
China being authoritarian is a “Dog bites man” story. It’s expected.
Same with police misconduct in the US: it’s also dog-bites-man.
Trump and his team realized that outrage fatigue is a thing: fuck up daily and with such magnitude that being a corrupt fuckup becomes a non-story and then you can get away with anything.
Steve Bannon even had a term for it: “flood the zone”.
- Comment on Italian government accused of using defamation law to silence intellectuals 1 week ago:
A right-wing proto-fascist government silencing the press, intellectuals and critics.
Can’t be, thats never happened before.
I mean, other than Hitler. Or Mussolini. Or Franco. Ok, and Pinochet. And yes, Putin And Xi are recent examples. Oh, and Orban, Erdogan and the entirety of PIS in Poland. And Modhi. And Netanyahu. And we did see the start of this with Harper and Bush in North America. And Trump’s explicitly said he’s going to do this.
Point is, it almost never happens and we shouldn’t be concerned about the rise of the Right at all.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
You’re forgetting 3. If people who are in an out-group aren’t suffering more than I am, I feel oppressed.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 2 weeks ago:
The wealthy really didn’t like seeing labour getting off its knees during the pandemic and they’re stomping down hard lest we get a taste for it.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 3 weeks ago:
Capitalism is the problem, here.
This should be a warning: the rich are going to fight the idea of post-scarcity tooth and nail, because not being able to coerce people woth the threat of homelessness or starvation will remove just about the only lever they have.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say.
I mean, there’s a good chance they might wait a while in triage and parking can be expensive, but that’s really about it.
- Comment on ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Play Starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers Faces ‘Barrage of Racial Abuse,’ Producer Says ‘This Must Stop’ 5 weeks ago:
Let’s be honest: none of the people complaining about race in an adapt of Shakespeare play are going to and see a Shakespeare play.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 1 month ago:
Someone high-up at Microsoft really doesn’t want to admit that the W11 UI re-do wasn’t a resounding success.
- Comment on Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes – report 2 months ago:
I’m fairness, all wages are a business expense, and in theory, personal income taxes should catch this.
The problem is that we don’t tax the rich enough, and as a result our tax code encourages cash hoarding.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
Oh, I don’t disagree that it’s a design choice. 1990s id Software had, we’ll, let’s not call it a style…
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
One of the things I really enjoyed about Marathon (versus Doom or Quake) is that Marathon had colours outside of brown, reddish brown and greenish brown.
- Comment on A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering 2 months ago:
Why you only callin’ us when you got your dramas?
- Comment on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth 5 months ago:
Well, I’m 46 and sometimes getting old is hard…