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jdksmdbtbdnmsm
3y ago
Why do you think regulatory efforts have been undermined? Karl Marx showed us 150 years ago how a government under capitalism always tends toward domination by capitalists.
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3y ago
> Monopolies are broken by capitalism just as much as they're created by capitalism. Source?
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3y ago
Who doesn't love a fundamentally disastrous system justified by a sometimes possible exception?
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3y ago
> Competition is a core principle of capitalism Capitalism is literally defined by the ability to invest capital to accumulate more of it by way of profit. The logical end of this process is straightforwardly monopoly.
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jdksmdbtbdnmsm
3y ago
in other words: capitalism, the system we've designed our whole society around
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jdksmdbtbdnmsm
3y ago
"bean counter logic" is literally just the logic of capitalism
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3y ago
Think again. Historically, codifying workers' rights into law requires either a material benefit to powerful employers or decades of brutal sacrifice from working people who risk their lives in mass strikes.
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3y ago
Sufficient for what? That is the question, and the answer is entirely open-ended, presumedly on purpose. It's nonsense on the level of grammar alone.
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3y ago
I will be appreciative, since this so-called "law" has never had a lick of meaning beyond the realm of marketing mumbo jumbo. Even in the most desperate faith reading, the use of "sufficient" as a subjective measure of o
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3y ago
There are no powerful unions in the US, not even close. You immediately discredit yourself by suggesting there is.
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3y ago
Those are civil suits, so no fine. > Key legal questions will include whether the job applicants can show they suffered any injury to merit an award of damages Further down, the article links to another about some actual enforcement in
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3y ago
> In a case like that it may be worth the cost of the legal fight to get it expunged. That is presuming they could afford that cost. The effective purposes of the system are to keep the lucrative private prison industry flush and to mai
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> You’d be surprised at how many jobs felons canr have. How is that relevant?
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3y ago
Better idea #1: a filter for posts w/o salary details regardless of useless "laws" Better idea #2: Unionize and strike because historically nothing else has ever resulted in enforced universal workers' rights.
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3y ago
> It’s a 10K fine per listing Is it? Has even a single party been charged? And if so, what was the enforcement process? Without unions that strike (key word: strike) workers have no power. Edit: the $10k is a maximum fine, not a minimum
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3y ago
> Every rejection is bringing you one step closer to your ultimate goal No, it's not.
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3y ago
And the event that the 1979 state of emergency was declared in response to, the Iran Hostage Crisis, ended the following year. Declaring emergencies is obviously an easy way for a leadership class to consolidate power, but they have to be i
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3y ago
Time and availability are expensive commodities. Who's paying for that?
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3y ago
LMAO the tech industry is such a joke.
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3y ago
Yes, we must violently defend the business owners and cororate boards who hire them and sign their checks, while specifically attacking the CEOs themselves.
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3y ago
Only a tiny few Americans can afford filing such types of lawsuits, and only a tiny few of those people are interested in pursuing such things.
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3y ago
I just prefer buying things that will be durable and last a long time. All I can tell you about toasters these days is that none of those exist so I'm not interested in any of the ones that do.
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3y ago
All of the toasters sold today will be in the junk heap within 10 years
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3y ago
This sounds like someone who has studied a lot of math or physics but has never even heard of the humanities, art, philosophy, etc.
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3y ago
> I’d be easily convinced coming up with a coloring scheme that attributes everything correctly is a hard computer science problem. It's not a computer science problem at all. It's literally just a matter of having a uniue col
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3y ago
Hardly less scientific than western psychology
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3y ago
> Selling your account receivables is a thing. Huh? A thing? What is your point here?
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3y ago
Small claims courts have limits often too low to justify the money and time and availability costs, which are all things that unpaid contractors without wealth do not have.
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> Management didn't give them enough time No no no, humans never do a good job of anything unless they earn a profit, which is why we need capitalism, which is why we need patents.
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3y ago
> can you back up your statement with facts? Huh? My statement is the facts. What are you talking about?
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