korrachs

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by korrachs 9y ago
>you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen express their out of touch opinions. Kettle meet pot.
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by korrachs 9y ago
Here we have exhibit A on why the social contract in the US is dead. Instead of using politics to better your physical situation you use it as therapy. I'm not virtuous enough to push for higher taxes and more welfare? By shutting me d
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by korrachs 9y ago
>However, in the present day, I don't think it is just the 1% who are against a corporate tax increase. As I said: I would happily pay 80% taxes if I knew that when I needed it most the welfare state would have my back, but I know t
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by korrachs 9y ago
http://www.financialsense.com/sites/default/files/users/u308... Have a look at the period 1950-1970. If we were to tax corporations at the same rate as they were in that golden period we would not have a
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by korrachs 9y ago
And that's how solidarity dies. Are we going to start playing the game of "you're not oppressed enough"? Why not start with the $30k a year household: Hot water? What a luxury! Half the world can't afford drinking w
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by korrachs 9y ago
I work in a wholesale brokerage. I try and manage the risk exposure so we won't go bankrupt tomorrow because someone couldn't tell the difference between 0 and O on their screen. I have seen trades worth hundreds of millions fail
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by korrachs 9y ago
If you can't work you can't pass that on your descendants. The same is not true for capital.
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by korrachs 9y ago
I was wondering how long it would take for the attack on the solidarity of the precariat: >The rhetoric of “We are the 99 percent” has in fact been dangerously self-serving, allowing people with healthy six-figure incomes to convince the
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by korrachs 9y ago
Lies in the service of getting an extra 10 seconds of viewer engagement aren't.
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by korrachs 9y ago
Who is "they"? The people who own the top slots of the news today aren't the ones who did 6 months ago. The sites I was running are making less than $20 a month, at their best they were making $500 a day (lasted all of one we
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by korrachs 9y ago
As someone who has been on the publication side of digital media: Never ascribe to propaganda what you can explain by greed. News is fundamentally broken, all those sites linking to each other are probably doing it to increase the "tre