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Jerry Cotton posted:But... they're right? Capitalism isn't working right. As I said, capitalism is working completely fine and as designed.
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Faded Mars posted:I've seen articles on this before, and I've always found it baffling. They invest their money, which means they pay people the money in exchange for stocks. Buffet could retire and live a life of luxury for the rest of his life, but he cares about making the world a better place, which is why he gives money to people who he thinks will do real work to make the world a better place.
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:I didn't know that. A lot of airlines treat their staff like poo poo but I'd hazard a guess that virgin aren't as bad as some of the middle eastern airlines who essentially enslave their flight attendants and other staff. You may have me here, I can't speak to any of the foreign based airlines. So domestically speaking, Virgin is bad to its crews
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qkkl posted:They invest their money, which means they pay people the money in exchange for stocks. Buffet could retire and live a life of luxury for the rest of his life, but he cares about making the world a better place, which is why he gives money to people who he thinks will do real work to make the world a better place. Pffthahahaha
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Is Buffett a "good guy" or is that just what billions in PR money will get you
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qkkl posted:They invest their money, which means they pay people the money in exchange for stocks. Buffet could retire and live a life of luxury for the rest of his life, but he cares about making the world a better place, which is why he gives money to people who he thinks will do real work to make the world a better place. Another brain rotted by capitalism.
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g0lbez posted:Is Buffett a "good guy" or is that just what billions in PR money will get you It's mostly PR and clever tax loophole gaming, though tbf I think he genuinely wants to do good things but he also genuinely loves making lots of money and will throw the first under the bus to further the second.
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Aug 27, 2018 17:40
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He donates a bunch to "charity", but he structures it in such a way that the money doesn't generally wind up actually going to charity and instead goes into this trust system that's tax exempt but still entirely controlled by him or someone he designates. He talks about how unfair the tax system is to the poor while he simultaneously wrings money out of minorities. He's the epitome of "I want to make the world a better place as long as I don't actually have to do anything or change my life at all" but for the ultra-rich.
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ate all the Oreos posted:As I said, capitalism is working completely fine and as designed. I don't know about that. We have a huge demand for guillotines but where's the supply?
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Faded Mars posted:Is it really just a game to them about making numbers go higher? it's pretty close to this; they are literally addicts who have lost control of their lives some people are addicted to collecting various things, we call them hoarders; some people are addicted to alcohol, we call them alcoholics; some people are addicted to small-time gambling, we call them gambling addicts; these people are recognized as suffering from diseases of the mind and offered treatment (well, ideally) some people are addicted to making their bank accounts as big as possible. we call these sociopaths captains of industry, let them run our world, and then wonder why poo poo goes to pot
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We need a *begins shakily loading Mosin-Nagant* meme or emoji.
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Faded Mars posted:We need a *begins shakily loading Mosin-Nagant* meme or emoji. 
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g0lbez posted:Is Buffett a "good guy" or is that just what billions in PR money will get you He's definitely a piece of poo poo, he's just one of the very few ultra rich that is clear eyed about who he is and what he's doing to this world. "There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." - Warren Buffett
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EvilJoven posted:LOL if you think that any company owned by Sir Richard "My Ego Has It's Own Postal Code" Branson doesn't have 'gently caress the plebs that both work for me and buy from me, squeeze them for every penny, that money is my birthright' etched onto a plaque hanging in his bathroom. And yet he is still a thousand times more admirable than Alan Sugar...
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I imagine you could recreate the hot chicken one by just sprinkling your oreos with chicken bouillon and cayenne pepper if that's your thing
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Faded Mars posted:Is it really just a game to them about making numbers go higher? Yes It's a measure to see "who is winning."
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Jerry Cotton posted:But... they're right? Capitalism isn't working right. Regular brain: capitalism is the best possible way Expanded brain: capitalism is a gently caress and should be stopped Galaxy brain: capitalism itself sows the seeds of its own destruction and thus its doom is inevitable
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Capitalism will definitely collapse under the weight of its own contradictions. Famously, depressingly, there is a phrase for what happens then: "Socialism or barbarism." Socialism is not the guaranteed result of the collapse of capitalism. Some people append "fascism" also (socialism, barbarism, or fascism) - which I think is a fine addition. Neo-fascism is going to be so ridiculously hard to overthrow for reasons of technology and globalization. It's all kind of moot cause capitalism has an insanely high chance of extinguishing human life by the end of the century. We need full communism yesterday. I'll settle for today. Or tomorrow.
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Moridin920 posted:Regular brain: capitalism is the best possible way Time cube multiverse brain: a truly free market will inevitably lead to organized labour, the opposition of which is inherent in extant, misguided, doomed capitalism
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qkkl posted:They invest their money, which means they pay people the money in exchange for stocks. Buffet could retire and live a life of luxury for the rest of his life, but he cares about making the world a better place, which is why he gives money to people who he thinks will do real work to make the world a better place. christ. I felt an ice blade go through my spine reading this
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Extinguishing all human life actually sounds supergood. I was more worried about having a class of biologically immortal billionaire living gods being served by slave masses, but if everyone goes I'm ok with it
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Chomp8645 posted:Someone should tell this jerkoff that if he doesn't like what he is paying... he's free to leave. but... he's the customer!
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Scary! posted:McDonalds is going to automate everything they can the moment technology allows them to. Which is cheaper, a $2K kiosk (or whatever it costs) or paying someone $10k a year to stand behind a register. Learn to fix kiosks friends.
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kiosks are already springing up all around the US and yet the federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr
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Scary! posted:McDonalds is going to automate everything they can the moment technology allows them to. Which is cheaper, a $2K kiosk (or whatever it costs) or paying someone $10k a year to stand behind a register. The kiosk will gently caress around less and know where the goddamn only ketchup button is. loving 16 year olds they give no poo poo for the capitalist hell they're being thrust in to unlike in MY DAY
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comedyblissoption posted:kiosks are already springing up all around the US and yet the federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr lmao i forgot how low this was how the gently caress do people justify that? how do you even begin to live off of that?
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g0lbez posted:lmao i forgot how low this was how the gently caress do people justify that? how do you even begin to live off of that? If you raise it, everything will cost so much more 
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g0lbez posted:lmao i forgot how low this was how the gently caress do people justify that? how do you even begin to live off of that? "minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage; if you want more money, get a new job." - I have had this told me verbatim before. There's a lot of people who truly believe that min wage and living wage are different.
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Lol America is gonna collapse under its own dead weight I can't wait to die at 50.Solar Coaster posted:"minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage; if you want more money, get a new job." - I have had this told me verbatim before. There's a lot of people who truly believe that min wage and living wage are different. If everyone "got a new job" they'd be competing with these assholes and their cushy jobs would cease to pay well, these people are braindead.
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Solar Coaster posted:"minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage; if you want more money, get a new job." - I have had this told me verbatim before. There's a lot of people who truly believe that min wage and living wage are different. They are different. You can't live on minimum wage. They should name it zombie wage, or skeleton wage.
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g0lbez posted:lmao i forgot how low this was how the gently caress do people justify that? how do you even begin to live off of that? "crabs in a bucket" and "you don't" respectively.
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