Bureaucracy is a huge problem.
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Private equity, shareholders. No publicly traded business is in the business of providing service and goods of value.
Capitalism combined with markets with inelastic demand is a lot of fun. But communism bad because tankies or whatever.
Unchecked greed is bad for society, capitalist or communist.
People are the problem. If we could only get rid of the people. /sarcasm
In 1776, Americans engaged in open warfare, with guns and killing and infections and amputations and no anesthetic, with England, because they were tired of paying taxes and getting nothing from them.
Our current population has emotional breakdowns when told they have to wear a mask to keep old people from dying. I am not at all confident that we will ever reach the same level of energy that led to organized, cohesive revolution and war unless some outside power starts taking away people's internet and pizza rolls.
but the shareholders!
It has been unchecked corporate greed. If you just look around or follow twitter pages like more perfect union. Story after story of corporate greed and people coming together to try to make life fair and liveable.
hey recently had one of some big corpos buying up all the land in a state to build their own crypto city. Even that land is for farming is ultra important. Now that group of corpos are suing the people for coming together and not selling.
And why is corporate greed allowed to exist? Capitalism. You were so close.
I get what it is. Not much we can do about it other than form unions and keep fighting.
So capitalism in a nutshells.
Revenue - Costs = ????
(???? is corporate profit, so they maximise fees and minimise salaries)
First time under capitalism
Oh my, reminds me of a saying we used to have back under soviet occupation. Translated it would be "If you aren't stealing, you're stealing from your family.". Americans are at the point where that's the world they live in, but they haven't yet developed the depressing worldview of the average soviet citizen. Oof...
Here fucking here.
Isn't it 'Hear, hear" like hear this, not this place?
Yes
Stock Markets getting those record highs tho. If only people could get paid in shares of the companies that own their labor, but if that happened they'd actually have to answer to the workers and we simply can't have that in muh free markets
Honestly, i don't want to get paid in share of the company, i'd prefer cash directly bank into my account so it's available immediately for me to use on the needs and wants. With share, i need to liquidate it, that took time in negotiation. And if no one want to buy it in a bad year, i'm stuck with shrinking money that i can't use.
Different story if you work in those big tech of course.
Right because if that happened investors would dump their shares and invest in companies that use slave labor.
Don't worry because you are free to exploit people as well! Oh, you're not exploiting, fucking over, and scamming literally every human being you meet? What's wrong with you. Maybe you're just not smart enough to screw people over. /$
Wow, that "/$" is art. Congratulations.
/Fully sincere.
Weird that pro capitalist comments with 10 to 50 upvotes are by default above anti corporation takes with 100-200 upvotes.
default sorting ranks recent posts more highly than highly voted ones.
if you sort by top it sorts by score alone, at the expense of newer comments being buried.