The Dennis System posted:

World wide, the average life span, quality of life, education, and million other things have dramatically improved thanks to capitalism.

Senor Dog posted:

It’s not the economic system that’s led to these improvements but new methods and technology. People invented stuff before capitalism. The compounding effect of technological advancement makes idiots think that the economic system used recently is obviously the cause of the increasing pace of advancement but that’s strictly correlation not causation.

Len posted:

she makes sub $9/hr.

She makes too much to qualify for Medicaid

Halser posted:

This might have been posted already.

ate all the Oreos posted:

Also also iirc the way Google+ claims that 44% statistic (which they've claimed for years and not just about teens) is they count anyone who ever made an account as a "user", and when it first came out pretty much everyone made an account or linked their account or w/e during their aggressive marketing push, look a look around for 5 minutes then never came back.

Outrail posted:

"Demand is up! Better order twice as much now."

Moridin920 posted:

https://twitter.com/Rasmp42/status/1021077862034690048

Spatial posted:

Yeah it's really capitalism to the absolute maximum over there.

I watched a couple of documentaries about the cost cutting measures some food places use in China, seems like a worthy topic for this thread.

Gutter oil is a well known one: the practise of scooping waste fats out of drains, rendering it and selling it to street vendors which then deep fry their food in it. This is waste water, human feces, runoff from slaughtering animals, and the discarded grease that restaurants poured down the drain, all nicely mixed with industrial grey water. And this is no rarity.

One I hadn't heard of before was restaurants that sell fake food. Eggs and pork in your egg noodles and pork dumplings? Nah man that poo poo is expensive. Instead lovely restaurants go to black markets that sell unknown chemical additives that emulate the texture, taste and smell of the ingredients. They mix this with flour and sell it as the real deal. When lab tested the the additives were found to be loaded with heavy metals like cadmium and pesticides in amounts that can cause severe nerve and organ damage especially to children.

There's a million things like this. I can't imagine how bad the consequences are going to be in a few decades.

Screaming Idiot posted:

This is how they think. They think the poor are parasites and that there is nothing wrong with starving them, mistreating them, and exploiting them. Billionaires and their bootlicking sycophantic criminal allies are human, whether we like it or not, and to think of them as anything less than human is to absolve them of guilt. They are not the other -- they are us, human beings, and should be held to the same standard.

ate all the Oreos posted:

I can't find it now but someone wrote a great article about how a bank (JP Morgan I think?) bought some nasty old coal power plants so they could exploit how the rules governing the grid worked. Like one of the things they did was figure out that the algorithm that determined who to buy power from wouldn't check prices correctly if the block of time crossed midnight so they'd bid -$1 per megawatt or something like that to guarantee they won the bid for 11 PM and then lock in the next three hours (because it's allocated in blocks like that, since generators need time to spool up and down), and charge $999 for the other two hours.

So not only were they exploiting the system, they were doing it with ancient, dirty coal plants

Play posted:

I'm pretty sure this is from the public funeral for the woman who was run over by the nazi. I remember it being used in this articles.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Very close. 36 accounts, on 11 PCs (although there are more pictured?). Here's the quote from the manbeard himself:

Bismuth posted:

fancy orphans

Burt Sexual posted:

That’s it? Your single contribution to a 50 page thread? You gotta have more than that, right?

ate all the Oreos posted:

There's already several small island nations that have made arrangements with other countries (Australia in particular I think) to relocate their population when their country literally ceases to exist in the next few decades but I can't imagine that kind of goodwill will last long once the number rises from a few thousand to millions and the timescale of the move changes from "long after the current government is out of office" to "right now, they're literally on boats already"

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Former DILF posted:

thats actually just pretty funny, what isn't funny is making all basic feminine hygiene products pink and more expensive because you have a captive audience

comedyblissoption posted:

The American media is a propaganda device that does not want to inform Americans of the laws and standards regarding maternity, sickness, and vacation in other countries.

Calico Heart posted:

Yeah poo poo like this would make me need to believe Europe was some kind of hellhole or I'd paint the lawn with my brains

ate all the Oreos posted:

I mean I'm pretty sure Russia was a wasteland of alcoholism back in Lenin's time too so I'm not so sure if it's really the thing holding back the revolution

big trivia FAIL posted:

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1033047652408156161

g0lbez posted:

Filthy Hans posted:

what the gently caress is an "influencer"

Outrail posted:

Not entirely. A smart and forward thinking young person can decide to go into a modestly to well paying trade that won't destroy their body, thoughtfully invest their earnings instead of blowing it on motorbikes and Hahaha haha sorry

Communist Walrus posted:

Spend more on defense

ekuNNN posted: