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I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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mommy?!?
you need to wipe that carrot juice off your mustache
know how i know youre a loser because weve already had this convo before
UK almost electing honest politician?
america take note, and watch for US election interference:
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff Nov 4
British superrich threaten exit if UK makes them pay real taxes. UK gov't should: (1) threaten sanctions, tariffs, etc against any country that aids such tax evasions, & (2) pursue global ban on tax-evading wealth movements. Otherwise, blackmail works.
america take note, and watch for US election interference:
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff Nov 4
British superrich threaten exit if UK makes them pay real taxes. UK gov't should: (1) threaten sanctions, tariffs, etc against any country that aids such tax evasions, & (2) pursue global ban on tax-evading wealth movements. Otherwise, blackmail works.
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff Nov 4
A declining US capitalism cuts taxes on corps and the rich and cuts public services. "Privatization" = rationing services like police, healthcare, education. The rich buy them; we can't afford them. In California, even fire-fighting works that way.
A declining US capitalism cuts taxes on corps and the rich and cuts public services. "Privatization" = rationing services like police, healthcare, education. The rich buy them; we can't afford them. In California, even fire-fighting works that way.
public relations:
Existential Comics @existentialcoms 28m28 minutes ago
Bill Gates, the supposed "good guy" billionaire not being sure if he would vote for Trump rather than have a 2% wealth tax or whatever is why billionaires cannot exist. No one should control that much power.
They will fight to maintain their power, against democracy, every time.
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Existential Comics @existentialcoms 28m28 minutes ago
Bill Gates, the supposed "good guy" billionaire not being sure if he would vote for Trump rather than have a 2% wealth tax or whatever is why billionaires cannot exist. No one should control that much power.
They will fight to maintain their power, against democracy, every time.
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Existential Comics @existentialcoms 24h24 hours ago
what if instead of organizing every facet of society around working for and obeying the rich so they can make more profit, we just decide what to do ourselves? not sure what to call this new idea, thinking about going with "democracy". Americans should love it they love democracy
what if instead of organizing every facet of society around working for and obeying the rich so they can make more profit, we just decide what to do ourselves? not sure what to call this new idea, thinking about going with "democracy". Americans should love it they love democracy
george lucas not a huge believer in capitalist democracy.
Existential Comics @existentialcoms Nov 4
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Is a pizza pocket a ravioli? Is cereal a soup?
Is democracy under capitalism a democracy when businesses are still run like dictatorships?
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Existential Comics @existentialcoms Nov 4
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Is a pizza pocket a ravioli? Is cereal a soup?
Is democracy under capitalism a democracy when businesses are still run like dictatorships?
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Existential Comics @existentialcoms Nov 1
capitalism is so irrational and contradictory that you can invent a machine that does people's work for them and they will be angry about it
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capitalism is so irrational and contradictory that you can invent a machine that does people's work for them and they will be angry about it
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aka death of middle class. whos really getting rich? probably developers and banks.
"Other marches can come from the homeless and the desperate tenants spending over half their income on rent in the many communities where there is a shortage of affordable housing."
America's Streets and Squares Are Waiting: Massive Rallies Work! | Ralph Nader
"Other marches can come from the homeless and the desperate tenants spending over half their income on rent in the many communities where there is a shortage of affordable housing."
America's Streets and Squares Are Waiting: Massive Rallies Work! | Ralph Nader
rich 
s for trump!
Peter Joseph
@ZeitgeistFilm
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Nov 8
The true face of the ownership/rentier class. "Bill Gates... worth an estimated $107 billion, suggested on Wednesday he’d be open to voting for President Donald Trump in 2020 if the Democrats try to make him pay his fair share in taxes."
s for trump!Peter Joseph
@ZeitgeistFilm
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Nov 8
The true face of the ownership/rentier class. "Bill Gates... worth an estimated $107 billion, suggested on Wednesday he’d be open to voting for President Donald Trump in 2020 if the Democrats try to make him pay his fair share in taxes."
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violently enforce his "intellectual property". He didn't created a computer revolution, he destroyed one.
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Existential Comics
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Zuckerberg made his money in the exact same way, of course – by destroying an free social network. A social network was bound to emerge, what Zuckerberg did was prevent it from following open protocols, like email, so just anyone couldn't set up a server to socialize with anyone.
Existential Comics
@existentialcoms
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Nov 8
To say these people added value to the world and therefore "deserve" their billions is absurd. They subtracted value, an enormous amount of value, and stymied progress to seize control and extract wealth. Computers and the internet would be more advance if they had never existed.
Lee J. Carter
@carterforva
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Bill Gates stopped working and started "trying to give away all his money" 13 years ago. He had $50bn when he stopped working. He has $106bn today. See the problem?
and this one about central problem of capitalism which is it concentrates power in too few hands:
"That language, however, ignores the power dynamic at play: Yes, technically Easterbrook and the fry cook at your local franchise are both McDonald’s employees. But in terms of corporate hierarchy, they are hardly coworkers; Easterbrook, who made an estimated $15 million last year, is not just their boss but likely their boss’s boss’s boss. As CEO he had few if any equals at the company, which could make even a consensual relationship incredibly complicated. At the very least it’s messy and distracting. But at worst it could blur the confines of consent altogether: When the person you’re with has the power to fire you, you may consent to things that you otherwise would not.
This is what abuse of power in an “office romance” can look like, as high-profile examples have shown. Matt Lauer recently defended his relationship with former NBC producer Brooke Nevils, who accused him of rape, as consensual, noting that the two did not work together directly. But Lauer was the ostensible public face of the network, and Nevils says in Ronan Farrow’s book, Catch and Kill, that she feared the control Lauer had over her career. “It was completely transactional,” she said. “It was not a relationship.”
Two decades after what is widely called her affair with President Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky says the concept of consent was “very, very complicated” when it came to sex between her, a then White House intern, and the leader of the free world. “I now see how problematic it was that the two of us even got to a place where there was a question of consent,” Lewinsky wrote in Vanity Fair in 2018. “The road that led there was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege.”
No, CEOs Shouldn’t Date Their Employees
"That language, however, ignores the power dynamic at play: Yes, technically Easterbrook and the fry cook at your local franchise are both McDonald’s employees. But in terms of corporate hierarchy, they are hardly coworkers; Easterbrook, who made an estimated $15 million last year, is not just their boss but likely their boss’s boss’s boss. As CEO he had few if any equals at the company, which could make even a consensual relationship incredibly complicated. At the very least it’s messy and distracting. But at worst it could blur the confines of consent altogether: When the person you’re with has the power to fire you, you may consent to things that you otherwise would not.
This is what abuse of power in an “office romance” can look like, as high-profile examples have shown. Matt Lauer recently defended his relationship with former NBC producer Brooke Nevils, who accused him of rape, as consensual, noting that the two did not work together directly. But Lauer was the ostensible public face of the network, and Nevils says in Ronan Farrow’s book, Catch and Kill, that she feared the control Lauer had over her career. “It was completely transactional,” she said. “It was not a relationship.”
Two decades after what is widely called her affair with President Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky says the concept of consent was “very, very complicated” when it came to sex between her, a then White House intern, and the leader of the free world. “I now see how problematic it was that the two of us even got to a place where there was a question of consent,” Lewinsky wrote in Vanity Fair in 2018. “The road that led there was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege.”
No, CEOs Shouldn’t Date Their Employees
socialists, commies, and unions threated FDR with revolution if he did not do something to help out with great depression. he responded by "saving capitalism" and created Social security, unemployment insurance, hired 10 million workers federally, and i forgot the other thing.
Richard D. Wolff
@profwolff
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Nov 9
75 years of anti-communism/socialism/leftism (by GOP & most Dems) has yielded Trump and the current GOP.
Right-wing activities were more funded, cheered; left-wing were more demonized.
So the unbalanced, “vital center” of US politics destroyed itself.
Richard D. Wolff
@profwolff
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Nov 9
75 years of anti-communism/socialism/leftism (by GOP & most Dems) has yielded Trump and the current GOP.
Right-wing activities were more funded, cheered; left-wing were more demonized.
So the unbalanced, “vital center” of US politics destroyed itself.
Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
this is gibberish
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Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff 24h24 hours ago
Political winds changing: despite $1 million "donation" by Amazon/Jeff Bezos to its preferred Seattle City Council candidates, socialist Kshama Sawant was re-elected yet again. Heavily-funded anti-socialist efforts failed to defeat her.
Political winds changing: despite $1 million "donation" by Amazon/Jeff Bezos to its preferred Seattle City Council candidates, socialist Kshama Sawant was re-elected yet again. Heavily-funded anti-socialist efforts failed to defeat her.
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Damn right!
Lee J. Carter
@carterforva
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22h
Bill Gates stopped working and started "trying to give away all his money" 13 years ago. He had $50bn when he stopped working. He has $106bn today. See the problem?
He's a lot smarter than you or me!
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