I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

[rickyb]

last night i was told at work by someone who is not a radical socialist that i should slow down because if i work hard or medium, there will just be more work.

this article just popped up in my feed, it wasnt referrred to me by anyone.

heres an article on the capitalist labour problems at rockstar games. includes long work weeks, sleeping at work, marriage problems, surveillance, alcoholism. unionization talks were few and far between, which plays into my theory that under this capitalist system, people quite often make the worst decisions on the market.

some workers felt powerless which is my major problem with capitalism:

Red Dead Redemption 2’s labor controversy, explained

 

[vantexan]

last night i was told at work by someone who is not a radical socialist that i should slow down because if i work hard or medium, there will just be more work.

this article just popped up in my feed, it wasnt referrred to me by anyone.

heres an article on the capitalist labour problems at rockstar games. includes long work weeks, sleeping at work, marriage problems, surveillance, alcoholism. unionization talks were few and far between, which plays into my theory that under this capitalist system, people quite often make the worst decisions on the market.

some workers felt powerless which is my major problem with capitalism:

Red Dead Redemption 2’s labor controversy, explained

You actually know someone who's not a radical socialist?

 

[rickyb]

lies lies lies:

Paul Sliker‏ @psliker 37m37 minutes ago



Paul Sliker Retweeted Evonomics

By “free market” classical economists like Smith & John Stuart Mill meant a market in which taxation would free the economy from untaxed economic rents; free it from financial interest, & the bankers, landlords & monopolists. It’s been hijacked and redefined as the exact opposite

Paul Sliker added,


Evonomics @EvonomicsMag
Entrepreneur and Writer Jag Bhalla: "Adam Smith was no fan of greed. And Smith fans who hold selfishness a virtue, distort what he called his best work." @hangingnoodles Stop Associating Adam Smith with Laissez-Faire Economics - Evonomics
0 replies 6 retweets 14 likes

 

[rickyb]

trumps just gotta keep the bubble going past his reelection.

Richard D. Wolff‏Verified account @profwolff 57m57 minutes ago




JP Morgan Chase bank predicts next economic downturn in 2020.

Will it be very bad like 1929-1941 or 2008-2011? Or just bad like the 11 downturns between 1941 and 2008?

One of capitalism’s worst burdens: endless instability. #HowCapitalismWorks

 

[rickyb]

lol:

Clint Smith‏Verified account @ClintSmithIII 18h18 hours ago




it was slavery

AEIVerified account @AEI
Free markets, free trade, and #capitalism propelled the US from a minor colony to a global economic superpower and the world’s largest economy, with dozens of metro areas that produce the equivalent to the GDP of some of the…
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[rickyb]

more lols:

Amir‏ @AmirAminiMD




You spelled “slavery” wrong.

AEIVerified account @AEI
Free markets, free trade, and #capitalism propelled the US from a minor colony to a global economic superpower and the world’s largest economy, with dozens of metro areas that produce the equivalent to the GDP of some of…
8:58 PM - 27 Oct 2018

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      Amir‏ @AmirAminiMD 4h4 hours ago
      

And, you know, genocide and thievery. And that thing called imperialism and perpetual war. Oh and that cancerous oligarchy thing we live in which, until this day, steals people’s taxes to share it among poor billionaires.

 

[rickyb]

another perspective on the origins of american wealth:

1. Ben Norton‏Verified account @BenjaminNorton 10h10 hours ago
   
   
   Ben Norton Retweeted AEI
   
   Actually that enormous wealth was amassed through hundreds of years of slavery, imperialism, ruthless exploitation of the poor and oppressed, endless wars, looting the Global South, destroying the environment, and pillaging the planet
   
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   AEIVerified account @AEI
   Free markets, free trade, and #capitalism propelled the US from a minor colony to a global economic superpower and the world’s largest economy, with dozens of metro areas that produce the equivalent to the GDP of some of the…
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   Ben Norton‏Verified account @BenjaminNorton 29m29 minutes ago
   
   
   
   The USA's stolen wealth was built on the enslavement of human beings: By 1840 just the cotton produced by slave labor was 59% of US exports The estimated market value of the enslaved population by 1860 reached 7 times the value of currency in circulation
   
   
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   Ben Norton‏Verified account @BenjaminNorton 25m25 minutes ago
   
   
   
   By 1860 the 4 million slaves were worth $3.5 billion--the largest financial asset in the entire US economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined There were more slaveowner millionaires in the lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else
   
   
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[rickyb]

for workers capitalism is all tricks, no treats

 

[vantexan]

for workers capitalism is all tricks, no treats

Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Go back to Canada
Where there is no heat

 

[rickyb]

Or marching against extinction?

more capitalist incentive problems, this time from oldngray who would never admit it in a discussion here:

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[oldngray]

more capitalist incentive problems, this time from oldngray who would never admit it in a discussion here:

Because it doesn't belong in this thread.

 

[rickyb]

Because it doesn't belong in this thread.

we were just debating this subject

 

[oldngray]

we were just debating this subject

"we"?

I wasn't.

 

[Operational needs]

more capitalist incentive problems, this time from oldngray who would never admit it in a discussion here:

You DO know that was posted in jest, right? @oldngray could probably work circles around you.

 

[floridays]

You DO know that was posted in jest, right? @oldngray coukd probably work circles around you.

The left is humorless. But you knew that.

 

[rickyb]

You DO know that was posted in jest, right? @oldngray could probably work circles around you.

are you sure? maybe thats where he draws the line

i know lots of people who pretend to work.

 

[Operational needs]

are you sure?

i know lots of people who pretend to work.

He has a work ethic.

 

[rickyb]

He has a work ethic.

on weekends?

 

[oldngray]

are you sure?

i know lots of people who pretend to work.

Yeah.

Socialists.

They pretend to work and pretend they are getting paid for it.

 

[vantexan]

are you sure? maybe thats where he draws the line

i know lots of people who pretend to work.

Too busy ragging on capitalism?