I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

[El Correcto]

after i wrote a 1 star review on google and facebook for the local mountain's marketing practices, i got an email saying they are giving me a $50 gift card.

when you hold the market accountable to a higher standard, you get more in return.

ditto for govt. gotta put their feet to the fire.

If I ever feel compelled to leave a seething soccer mom review, you’re going to have to offer me more than 50$’s not to scorch your ass. I’d edit my review and add a picture of their bribe to let others know their reviews are fake and I won’t be bought.

 

[1989]

after i wrote a 1 star review on google and facebook for the local mountain's marketing practices, i got an email saying they are giving me a $50 gift card.

when you hold the market accountable to a higher standard, you get more in return.

ditto for govt. gotta put their feet to the fire.

They didn’t change their marketing practices? Many aren’t gullible to fall into marketing scenes. But since you are easily brainwashed I guess that understandable.

 

[rickyb]

You took hush money therefore you are corrupt. You don't hold companies accountable to milk money out of them. You hold them accountable to make them change for the better. They bought you off and apparently it doesn't take much to corrupt you.

yea i was thinking about that. if i was a politician i wouldnt be taking money. i changed the review to say their customer service is good and they aim to please.

 

[rickyb]

They didn’t change their marketing practices? Many aren’t gullible to fall into marketing scenes. But since you are easily brainwashed I guess that understandable.

what do you mean?

most consumers are passified.

 

[rickyb]

capitalism is a failed economic system for a few reasons:

-it concentrates power which leads to corruption which other economic systems have done too. im guessing an economic system with less centralized power and less corruption would be more efficient and less polluting.
-capitalists dont follow the golden rule aka treat workers as you would want to be treated.
-this system is at least partly to blame for a lack of solidarity amongst people ie an injury to one is an injury to all.
-it also is partly to blame for people not being able to see things from other people's pov
-and if you really believe in living in a political republic or democracy, then how does that relate to the economic system you are stuck with.

trump bashed socialism at the state of the union. people preferring socialism to capitalism makes the capitalists perform better, much like me giving justifiably bad reviews on google makes the capitalists give me deals, or citizens protesting govt makes government more responsive.

at work if we all "whine" for donuts and coffee, the boss is more likely to buy them. works.

 

[rickyb]

 

[rickyb]

i was watching a lady gaga interview she did with that democratic establishment crony colbert, and she was saying theres alot of shallow people in hollywood and we live in shallow times. i agree with teh second part, and hte first part is likely true as well.

our tenant is very religious and she think we are in end times. i also agree if you mean humans and many species.

 

[1989]

i was watching a lady gaga interview she did with that democratic establishment crony colbert, and she was saying theres alot of shallow people in hollywood and we live in shallow times. i agree with teh second part, and hte first part is likely true as well.

our tenant is very religious and she think we are in end times. i also agree if you mean humans and many species.

Cool story.

 

[rickyb]

people blaming immigrants is a way of deflecting from the poor economy, and govt and economic corruption:

Richard D. Wolff‏Verified account @profwolff 3h3 hours ago




From 2000-2018, avg US yearly wage increases = 0% for people w/ some college, 0.6% for those w/ advanced degrees.

These numbers meant STAGNANT work income for most while stock markets & corporate profits boomed.

No wonder people are angry.

Read more: http://bit.ly/2Sl6Tv2

 

[rickyb]

i went to carls jr yesterday. they were supposed to give me a free slider with any purchase. but they lied.

so i gave them 1 star on google and am in talks with them on facebook, and im gonna get at least $10 in food out of them. after they give me the money ill delete my review.

im like robin hood, i take from the rich and give it to myself.

 

[rickyb]

The AI Road to Serfdom? | by Robert Skidelsky

But a future patterned along the lines suggested by Autor has a disturbingly dystopian implication. It is easy to see why lovely human jobs will remain and become even more prized. Exceptional talent will always command a premium. But is it true that lousy jobs will be confined to those with minimal skills? How long will it take those headed for redundancy to up-skill sufficiently to complement the ever-improving machines? And, pending their up-skilling, won’t they swell the competition for lousy jobs? How many generations will have to be sacrificed to fulfil the promise of automation? Science fiction has raced ahead of economic analysis to imagine a future in which a tiny minority of rich rentiers enjoy the almost unlimited services of a minimally-paid majority.

The optimist says: leave it to the market to forge a new, superior equilibrium, as it always has. The pessimist says: without collective action to control the pace and type of innovation, a new serfdom beckons. But while the need for policy intervention to channel automation to human advantage is beyond question, the real serpent in the garden is philosophical and ethical blindness. “A society can be said to be decadent,” wrote the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, “if it so functions as to encourage a decadent life, a life addicted to what is inhuman by its very nature.”2

It is not human jobs that are at risk from the rise of the robots. It is humanity itself.

 

[pickup]

Hey when do you think @rickyb will come to the same conclusion that the fat guy did in this video?

 

[1989]

i went to carls jr yesterday. they were supposed to give me a free slider with any purchase. but they lied.

so i gave them 1 star on google and am in talks with them on facebook, and im gonna get at least $10 in food out of them. after they give me the money ill delete my review.

im like robin hood, i take from the rich and give it to myself.

A classic case of extortion.

 

[Operational needs]

A classic case of extortion.

Thank you! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that.

 

[1989]

Thank you! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that.

He will always have a complaint in order to get a refund or free stuff. He’s a scammer.

 

[pickup]

i went to carls jr yesterday. they were supposed to give me a free slider with any purchase. but they lied.

so i gave them 1 star on google and am in talks with them on facebook, and im gonna get at least $10 in food out of them. after they give me the money ill delete my review.

im like robin hood, i take from the rich and give it to myself.

Vegetarians don’t eat sliders so they did you a favor.

Unless you lied to us and you actually aren’t a vegetarian.

 

[rickyb]

Vegetarians don’t eat sliders so they did you a favor.

Unless you lied to us and you actually aren’t a vegetarian.

exactly im vegetarian at home, but eat meat at restaraunts

 

[rickyb]

He will always have a complaint in order to get a refund or free stuff. He’s a scammer.

wrong. i do it when i have reason to. its called pursuing your self interests in the market which alot of people dont do

 

[rickyb]

A classic case of extortion.

wrong its google reviews. if they want to improve their rating then improve their customer service.

 

[Operational needs]

wrong. i do it when i have reason to. its called pursuing your self interests in the market which alot of people dont do

Scamming.