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Barbie Used to Be Made in the Philippines. Why Did Mattel Leave the Country? TL; DR - neoliberalism got Mattel to offshore their manufacturing from the US to the Philippines, and they killed the factories when the unions got too uppity quote:Barbie dolls are still popular here [in the Philippines] after all these years, especially during the holiday season. But our country has a special relationship with the doll brand because Barbie herself used to be made right here.
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Frosted Flake posted:Weren’t there ties to some bad boys trying to launder money etc? if you mean it's something cashapp related, i don't think so. their "know your customer" policy is basically "yeah we know this guy's one of our customers" and i don't think that's changed, so they're basically the number one way to move money of dubious origin around and everyone knows it. regulatory agencies probably had a bigger beef with this guy than any criminal would, and stabbing execs in the streets is atypical of SEC or foreign sanctions enforcement as far as i know
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 14:23 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Weren’t there ties to some bad boys trying to launder money etc? Invest in my brand new app called Laundr which facilitates transactions if you know what I mean
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 14:24 |
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Danann posted:unsurprising that reddit has is populated by petty bourgeois and bourgeosis proletarians who think all this hate is being driven by greed, resentment, and gullibility Or they're just paid messaging accounts like a lot of the posters in every internet community The big post in the middle there was generated by a clippy Mirthless has issued a correction as of 14:36 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Mustached Demon posted:their first 9/11 did exactly what it was supposed to Yep OBL destroyed america with two planes full of jihadis and the tacit support of the CIA
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 14:41 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Barbie Used to Be Made in the Philippines. Why Did Mattel Leave the Country? quote:“Fuentes and Ehrenreich indicated that Mattel ‘offer(ed) prizes to workers who undergo sterilization.’ uhh the gently caress? good article
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:how about this one To some extent journalism is a home, keeps them out of harm and provides them with a little income to get by.
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DancingShade posted:I'm going to go around assessing everyone's property at a value of 3+ million (what it actually sells for is irrelevant) then tax them 30k a year. We have 2 houses in our neighborhood that sold for $75k and 76k last summer. Those house are in better land positions than our house and are bigger so according to the city assessment rose in value another $20k or $25k. And we thought housing inflation stopped!
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 14:52 |
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one easy trick cities have to raise funds
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Orbis Tertius posted:uhh the gently caress? 80's american executives are always some of the evilest people. like you run the barbie factory why are you getting into sterilization?
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 14:56 |
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Orbis Tertius posted:uhh the gently caress? the next sentence over heavily implies that they wanted women to be sterilized so there wouldn't be offspring from sleeping with them no idea about the men
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 15:02 |
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Ism services numbers. Big drops across the board, but still in expansion. https://twitter.com/LiveSquawk/status/1643614746074021888?t=tsmAwkDs-x6Q9Pr_QmFKoA&s=19
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All the permacattle bleated to each other about how there wouldn't be a Recession! Too bad motherfuckers.
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SKULL.GIF posted:All the permacattle bleated to each other about how there wouldn't be a Recession! A recession is good for stocks (the real economy)
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are bad numbers still good
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Always
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:80's american executives are always some of the evilest people. you just know “incentivizing” sterilization was plan B after they looked real long and hard at whether making it a condition of employment was viable. very curious what the “prizes” they offered were. grotesquely paltry, I would guess.
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gradenko_2000 posted:the next sentence over heavily implies that they wanted women to be sterilized so there wouldn't be offspring from sleeping with them that’s even worse!
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:are bad numbers still good The bad numbers are good, the good numbers are really good, and the neutral numbers? Oh baby you better believe those are good.
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 15:14 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Barbie Used to Be Made in the Philippines. Why Did Mattel Leave the Country?
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:80's american executives are always some of the evilest people. /80s executively-ish “Because we can”
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I mean what the gently caress was the point of stomping out communism around the world if not to do exactly what the US did in the 80s. That was the big victory lap, nothing can stop us now, octopus enveloping the world, etc etc.
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 15:16 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Barbie Used to Be Made in the Philippines. Why Did Mattel Leave the Country? you idiots, you're supposed to kill the unions, not the factories!
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Orbis Tertius posted:uhh the gently caress? The quote was lifted from the multinational monitor article The New Factory Girls, which provides more context than the edited article. https://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1983/08/fuentes.html quote:Multinationals prefer single women with no children and no plans to have any. Pregnancy tests are routinely given to potential employees to avoid the issue of maternity benefits. In the Philippines' Bataan Export Processing Zone, the Mattel toy company offers prizes to workers who undergo sterilization. It also clarifies the motel quote was explicitly about sexual harassment by management. quote:Sexual harassment is another hazard of factory work, especially for women who are out late at night working the graveyard shift. In the Bataan Export Processing Zone in the Philippines, sexual harassment is a common practice among male supervisors. "We call our company 'motel', says a worker at Mattel, "because we are often told to lay down or be laid off. It is hard to know what to do when that happens because we can't afford to lose our jobs."
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 15:38 |
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Mr Hootington posted:A recession is good for stocks (the real economy) It is a good thing if the Fed drops rates, but the US is also in a weird situation because of OPEC where oil prices are still pretty elevated despite the fact the US is still crawling into a recession.
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 15:44 |
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quote:potential employees to avoid the issue of maternity benefits it was recently proposed in Congress that a law be passed granting two days of leave per month for menstruating persons, to account for the hardship caused by menstruation of course, the kneejerk dumbshit reaction was that "companies will just stop hiring women since they end up working so much less than men do, when you combine this with their maternity leave!!!" I should have realized that the much darker alternative was sterilizing women so they couldn't get pregnant and therefore never have a reason to use their maternity leave in the first place
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 15:45 |
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Based on my experience as a child in the '80s, the master of the universe toys were not a failure.
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that red dude whose eyes popped out
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gradenko_2000 posted:it was recently proposed in Congress that a law be passed granting two days of leave per month for menstruating persons, to account for the hardship caused by menstruation That's funny because it turns out the ancient Egyptians were more woman-friendly that the modern Congress.
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JesustheDarkLord posted:Based on my experience as a child in the '80s, the master of the universe toys were not a failure. They made like a billion different characters and once everyone had he-man and beastmaster and whatever it turned out no one wanted the no names and werent buying multiple hemens the toys who made us episode on it is fascinating, both for how much they bombed with it and the guy responsible for creating heman
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Ardennes posted:It is a good thing if the Fed drops rates, but the US is also in a weird situation because of OPEC where oil prices are still pretty elevated despite the fact the US is still crawling into a recession. It isn't just the opec+ messing with the oil market. Removing Russia and the usa constantly flooding the market have had roles.
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Insurers claim they'll be covering preventative care regardless of that court decision, for now https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/despite-court-ruling-insurers-will-continue-offer-aca-mandated-free-preventive-services quote:While a federal judge has struck down some of the preventive care mandates in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurers said they plan to stay the course on coverage.
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https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1643637947680317449
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Let er rip
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Insurers claim they'll be covering preventative care regardless of that court decision, for now it’s the same dipshit judge that ruled against the whole law previously. it’ll play out the same way and it’s pretty obvious the insurers know that.
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# ? Apr 5, 2023 17:02 |
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This is the opposite of what the fed wanted.
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Mr Hootington posted:This is the opposite of what the fed wanted. Maybe the Federal Reserve should do what's necessary instead of oh-so-carefully slow-walking everything to keep
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https://twitter.com/ceosonson/status/1642989199870636032
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Data shows economic contraction imminent.
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https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1643647433262637058?t=ISRNU8iAupkc6EQHXPGbpQ&s=19
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