I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

rickyb

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I drove a fuel truck while in the military. The rules that you mentioned are all common sense.

Overfilling a fuel truck means you weren't paying attention.
or you just made a mistake :S which we humans are known to do. the refinery posts a chart of how many overfills a month and theres like 6 in alot of the months.

but anyways interesting. the rules i mentioned are new as of this year.
 
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pickup

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i was at mr lube and talking to the mechanic and he told me how he got a job for border patrol or whatever, and im like "your gonna be rich", and he thought i was talking about his job at mr lube and he starts going off on wage slavery and how you can only get ahead if you own your own biz, and how the capitalists give us just enough crumbs to keep us going or whatever.

alot of people think like this about capitalism. even if they dont know the alternative to it.

i was helping our tenants, and they said the same thing.

Tenants???? Are you a capitalist landlord????
 

newfie

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i was at mr lube and talking to the mechanic and he told me how he got a job for border patrol or whatever, and im like "your gonna be rich", and he thought i was talking about his job at mr lube and he starts going off on wage slavery and how you can only get ahead if you own your own biz, and how the capitalists give us just enough crumbs to keep us going or whatever.

alot of people think like this about capitalism. even if they dont know the alternative to it.

i was helping our tenants, and they said the same thing.

for 600,000 he can shake the chains of capitalistic slavery and own his own franchise.

Franchise FAQs | Mr. Lube Oil Change Franchises
 

rickyb

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rickyb

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looks like the green party understands theres more choices than just capitalism and state socialism:

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  • That leaves only 1% of the wealth for the bottom 50%.
  • The bottom 25% had zero wealth and are $13,000 in debt on average.
  • Twelve percent of families were, on average, $32,000 in debt.

    ...For a male without a college degree and not in a labor union, real wages today are 11% lower than they were in 1979. All workers have seen stagnant wages for three and a half decades.

    ...Advance workers’ rights to form unions, achieve workplace democracy, and keep a fair share of the wealth they create.
...We also know that a fair minimum wage is not sufficient, we seek to build wealth from the bottom up by supporting worker-ownership, encouraging development small businesses, putting in place worker-profit sharing plans and worker and community cooperatives. People and communities need to be building wealth. The already super-wealthy should not be the only ones benefitting from economic growth.
 

rickyb

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Bernie Sanders
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The idea of a minimum wage was once considered radical not all that long ago, and yet it is now widely considered a bedrock of our nation.


democracy also used to be a radical idea. people take it for granted now. getting rid of capitalism and replacing it with worker controlled industry is also radical, but people will look at us strange in the future for not having it sooner
 

Babagounj

Strength through joy
Here's a story for rickyb;

Tent Cities Full Of Homeless People Are Booming In Cities All Over America As Poverty Spikes | Zero Hedge
The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia
This is the problem – people don’t want to deal with the human feces, the needles, the crime and the other problems that homeless people often bring with them. So the instinct is often to kick them out and send them away.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t fix the problem. It just passes it on to someone else.
 

rickyb

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Here's a story for rickyb;

Tent Cities Full Of Homeless People Are Booming In Cities All Over America As Poverty Spikes | Zero Hedge
The following list of major tent cities that have become so well-known and established that they have been given names comes from Wikipedia
This is the problem – people don’t want to deal with the human feces, the needles, the crime and the other problems that homeless people often bring with them. So the instinct is often to kick them out and send them away.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t fix the problem. It just passes it on to someone else.

we went to a rock show near seattle, and i camped in my car at a casino, and i think there was some permanent residents there in the parking lot.
 

1989

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we went to a rock show near seattle, and i camped in my car at a casino, and i think there was some permanent residents there in the parking lot.
Which casino were you at? Tulalip does a good job getting rid of the rift raft. Silver reef has many trailers/RVs across the road.
 

rickyb

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“Anyone who wants to rule men first tries to humiliate them, to trick them out of their rights and their capacity for resistance, until they are as powerless before him as animals,” Elias Canetti wrote in “Crowds and Power.” “He uses them like animals and, even if he does not tell them so, in himself he always knows quite clearly that they mean just as little to him; when he speaks to his intimates he will call them sheep or cattle. His ultimate aim is to incorporate them into himself and to suck the substance out of them. What remains of them afterwards does not matter to him. The worse he has treated them, the more he despises them. When they are no more use at all, he disposes of them as he does of his excrement, simply seeing to it that they do not poison the air of his house.”
 

rickyb

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detroit used to be one of the best places to work in america. but the capitalists sucked the city dry and outsourced the jobs.

heres a video someone captured of a cruise through detroit at night. a man gets run over by a car. ive never seen prostitutes shake it like that before...


DETROIT HOOD AT NIGHT
 

rickyb

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The system is rigged against blue-collar workers. Wages for hourly wage employees, adjusted for inflation, have barely budged since 1973 even as labor productivity rose 73.4 percent. Meanwhile, corporate profits as a share of the economy reached near-record levels, and the top 1 percent has seen incomes nearly triple.
 

rickyb

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i just heard that in most EU countries, the unions negotiate national contracts for companies regardless of them being totally unionized or not.

you might also ask why you haven't heard of this before.
 
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