I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

rickyb

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American exceptionalism

Fast Company recently reported on the potential comeback of one of the most infamous building materials of recent memory. Asbestos is now legally allowed back into U.S. manufacturing under a serious of loopholes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Fast Company reported, on June 1, the EPA authorized a “SNUR” (Significant New Use Rule) that allowed the distribution of products containing asbestos on a case-by-case basis.

According to Fast Company, the EPA’s recently released report detailing its new framework for evaluating the risk of its top prioritized substances states that the agency will “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.”

This news comes after the EPA reviewed its first batch of 10 chemicals under the 2016 amendment to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which requires the agency to continually reevaluate hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals in lieu of removing them from the market or placing new restrictions on their use. The SNUR greenlights companies to use toxic chemicals like asbestos without consideration about how they will endanger people who are indirectly in contact with them.

Asbestos was widely used in building insulation up until it was completely banned in most countries in the 1970s. The U.S. severely restricted its use without completely outlawing it. As Fast Company covered, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) revealed in April that asbestos-related deaths now total nearly 40,000 annually, with lung cancer and mesothelioma being the most common illnesses in association with the toxin.
 

BadIdeaGuy

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American exceptionalism

Fast Company recently reported on the potential comeback of one of the most infamous building materials of recent memory. Asbestos is now legally allowed back into U.S. manufacturing under a serious of loopholes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As Fast Company reported, on June 1, the EPA authorized a “SNUR” (Significant New Use Rule) that allowed the distribution of products containing asbestos on a case-by-case basis.

According to Fast Company, the EPA’s recently released report detailing its new framework for evaluating the risk of its top prioritized substances states that the agency will “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.”

This news comes after the EPA reviewed its first batch of 10 chemicals under the 2016 amendment to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which requires the agency to continually reevaluate hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals in lieu of removing them from the market or placing new restrictions on their use. The SNUR greenlights companies to use toxic chemicals like asbestos without consideration about how they will endanger people who are indirectly in contact with them.

Asbestos was widely used in building insulation up until it was completely banned in most countries in the 1970s. The U.S. severely restricted its use without completely outlawing it. As Fast Company covered, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) revealed in April that asbestos-related deaths now total nearly 40,000 annually, with lung cancer and mesothelioma being the most common illnesses in association with the toxin.

Boy, you must have sucked on a lot of lead based painted windowsills when you were a kid.
 

rickyb

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in the movie titanic directed by socialist (and canadan surprise surprise) james Cameron, the crew drinks, the ship sinks and a bunch of ppl die.

I think in real life, the titanic is our civilization, the crew is the rich and govt and instead of responsibly steering our civilization, we are going off the cliff and they are partying with all their money and don't want the music to stop.
 

rickyb

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consumers can fight back against capitalists by making youtube videos. I made a video and its got 70 view x $50 means the capitalist lost $3500 in sales best case.
 

BadIdeaGuy

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consumers can fight back against capitalists by making youtube videos. I made a video and its got 70 view x $50 means the capitalist lost $3500 in sales best case.

The only thing that happened was 70 random people wasted 5 minutes of their lives. Don't flatter yourself. ;)
 

oldngray

nowhere special
50 bucks per view on youtube?

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H.E. Pennypacker

Mmm, Mombasa!
im saying the workers themselves should vote on what they should be paid with what they produced each hour. and they should vote on what to do with the extra money, and vote on how to run our workplace. that would actually be democratic.

get the straws out of our milkshakes.
Hey guys, when did Karl Marx start working for UPS?!
 

rickyb

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ralph nader says apple achieved the $1,000,000,000,000 mark by stock buybacks, serf labour, and over priced iphone. he calls corporations private governments. Chomsky and varoufakis have also called them command and control similar to so called communism. us companies have a lower rate of investment than EU companies. compares stock buybacks to burning money.

capitalism has a lot of problems in common with other economic systems and that's why its a failure too.

 
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