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comedyblissoption posted:milton friedman's argument in favor of ford creating death fire trap pintos without government oversight was that customers would be omniscient and could do the cost/benefit analysis on their own on whether or not the [tiny] parts savings on a ford pinto to prevent it from being a deathtrap is worth it to them. his argument was that whether or not the cost for safety was a million dollars or some tiny amount was immaterial to whether or not the government should intervene on principle. milton friedman is a piss stain.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 07:57 |
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Faded Mars posted:
It's a form of worship.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 10:17 |
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JUST PAY YOUR loving TAXES YOU SUPPURATING COCK.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 10:47 |
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I like how even in a suit bezos has no shoulders. He looks like a Seuss character
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 12:47 |
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/arriva-trains-wales-customers-lost-wallet-property-charges-a8536946.html
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 14:02 |
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Bezos has some real lazy eye in that picture. Those pupils are not looking at the same thing.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 14:32 |
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Bezos has some real lazy eye in that picture. Those pupils are not looking at the same thing. His appearance is one of the least disgusting things about him tho.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 14:33 |
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He is a great man and has made the world a much better place. HE deserves all that money, ever single last dollar, because he is better than us and the work he does personally is invaluable
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 14:51 |
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SENTIENT HOUSEMEAT posted:JUST PAY YOUR loving TAXES YOU SUPPURATING COCK. bezos is a legit genius, i'd rather him be in charge of the education system then someone who got the job because of connections.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 14:56 |
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qkkl posted:bezos is a legit genius, i'd rather him be in charge of the education system then someone who got the job because of connections. While I will admit he is unlikely to be worst that DeVos, WHAT THE gently caress YOU gently caress
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:00 |
Graphic posted:more of the same ideology that sells having a non-garbage education system as "investing in children." what if it's just good for an advanced society to highly educate it's population even if you don't get an ROI The value of labor power, like every commodity, is determined by what labor is socially necessary to reproduce it. Under capitalism, an investment in cost-saving education (one which only does what is necessary) is an investment in cost-saving for capital. Bezos is already trying to profit from ever more exploitededucational labor, and if he ever does the same for high schools, you can bet he will try to suck up as much cheap labor-power being produced by those schools as he can.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:08 |
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qkkl posted:bezos is a legit genius, i'd rather him be in charge of the education system then someone who got the job because of connections. His success is based on insane ruthlessness, not intelligence, regardless of of how smart he is as a person. I'd hold off on assuming his education management would be anything approaching good.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:31 |
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If you thought schools were just a jail for kids before wait until they're run like an Amazon warehouse!
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:46 |
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Bombadilillo posted:His success is based on insane ruthlessness, not intelligence, regardless of of how smart he is as a person. I'd hold off on assuming his education management would be anything approaching good. ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:47 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison. Not clued up on modern American politics, then?
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:52 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison. Trump must be really smart then since he's been a ruthless rear end in a top hat all his life yet somehow became president instead of going to prison
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:52 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 15:59 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison. lol what
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 16:00 |
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Tetracube posted:lol what intelligence in this case is defined as possession of money and/or white skin
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 16:04 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison. yes this is exactly why all those oil execs who deny climate change science are locked up for destroying the environment. oh what's that? they're actually all loving instagram models on their yachts? cool cool
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 16:05 |
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Shima Honnou posted:If you thought schools were just a jail for kids before wait until they're run like an Amazon warehouse! Solution: Place students in education cages, moving via oversized roomba from operation to operation
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 16:09 |
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is pepsi ok posted:yes this is exactly why all those oil execs who deny climate change science are locked up for destroying the environment. oh what's that? they're actually all loving instagram models on their yachts? cool cool To be fair they're not denying it because they're stupid, they're denying it because their money depends on denying it. In the background they're doing poo poo like putting in place global warming continuity of business plans and buying insurance for it and staking claims on oil under melting ice caps.
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 16:12 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison. i see the gobbagool / splitpeasuperman replacement account has arrived
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 17:54 |
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qkkl posted:bezos is a legit genius, i'd rather him be in charge of the education system then someone who got the job because of connections. Source your quotes
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 21:15 |
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qkkl posted:ruthlessness without intelligence leads to prison. How dumb are you
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 23:01 |
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steinrokkan posted:How dumb are you well we know he's not ruthless 'cause he's not in prison
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 23:02 |
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qkkl posted:bezos is a legit genius, i'd rather him be in charge of the education system then someone who got the job because of connections. Imagine typing this
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# ? Sep 14, 2018 23:27 |
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Hyped y'all to bingewatch the final season of American Capitalism where rich people are universally paralyzed by the choice between vigorous taxation and vigorous guillotines.
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 00:04 |
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Inept posted:The full quote is better when Amazon talks about firing its workers, they use the euphemism "promoted to customer"
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 00:34 |
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galenanorth posted:when Amazon talks about firing its workers, they use the euphemism "promoted to customer" you’ll be hearing from my lawyer about this blatant copyright infringement
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 01:28 |
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galenanorth posted:when Amazon talks about firing its workers, they use the euphemism "promoted to customer" Same was done at Blizzard, Lowes, Time Warner.... I mean most retail or customer facing jobs have this dark joke as a way to cope.
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 01:37 |
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I'm surprised Amazon doesnt pay its caged workers in Amazon bucks.
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 01:43 |
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we’d also discuss whether or not somebody had ‘drunk the Kool-Aid’ in relation to how much of an apple fanboy they were
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 01:47 |
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All they need to do to get around company scrip laws is give a very low wage but a huge discount on amazon toilitries and whole foods groceries. Make the discount tiered based on their average weekly hours to stop people from gaming the system, and viola: Company town centered around a warehouse and whole foods
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 02:22 |
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Sentient Data posted:All they need to do to get around company scrip laws is give a very low wage but a huge discount on amazon toilitries and whole foods groceries. Make the discount tiered based on their average weekly hours to stop people from gaming the system, and viola: Company town centered around a warehouse and whole foods Isn't this kind of what Walmart is already doing?
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 02:38 |
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Sentient Data posted:All they need to do to get around company scrip laws is give a very low wage but a huge discount on amazon toilitries and whole foods groceries. Make the discount tiered based on their average weekly hours to stop people from gaming the system, and viola: Company town centered around a warehouse and whole foods why give huge discounts when the federal government is already giving them free government scrip to buy the food they otherwise couldn't afford
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 02:40 |
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10%, and it doesn't apply to groceries. They need to push harder for us to reach full cyberpunk hell. That'll be $5,300,000 in consulting fees, please
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 02:41 |
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Boksi posted:Isn't this kind of what Walmart is already doing? They're running food drives so the employees can eat. Please give to our peoples
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# ? Sep 15, 2018 02:43 |
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also, no sustainable small town in the us is not a company town and none ever will be all the ones hoping for the luxury of being company towns are having to give tax concessions and insane loans to the corps that might deign to move in a small operation to their town go check out how the Ark Encounter played out lol, they took out like almost 10 grand per resident in loans and just handed it out to the guys building a giant noah's ark
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Duscat posted:all the ones hoping for the luxury of being company towns are having to give tax concessions and insane loans to the corps that might deign to move in a small operation to their town Can't say i'm too sympathetic to the woe is small business angle used here, but it's the Guardian so go figure. Dollar General hustles an impressive amount of tax and utility breaks for it's stores. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/13/dollar-general-walmart-buhler-haven-kansas
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