I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
It wasn't feasible to do it then. All the big players have so much interconnected debt the entire worldwide economy would have fully collapsed if they were allowed to fail. Smaller banks would not have been able to handle the debt load a breakup would entail at that time. It should be done now that things have stabilized. Cut them up and have them reorganize internally into smaller institutions.
No it wouldn't have. There was plenty of small banks to swallow them up. It's actually becoming less likely the bigger we let them become.
 

Babagounj

Strength through joy
very funny. youll be back on the corporate plantation after the next stock market crisis.
My pension is in the form of an annuity .
And I'm able to collect SS now , another 2K / month .
Along with my other savings and investments I'm living the Life of Reilly .
 

wkmac

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@rickyb

"After years of brewing at home, Evan Sallee and his partners at Fair State Brewing, Minnesota’s first consumer-owned beer cooperative, were finally ready to open a taproom in Minneapolis. They needed a spot that could accommodate brewing, with a storefront that invited people in off the street. That combination was hard to find until they looked at a space on Central Avenue in the city’s Northeast neighborhood."

How Neighbors Turned Unused Buildings into a Thriving Community Hub
 

rickyb

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“It is not accidental that the Trump regime immediately went after the water protectors at Standing Rock,” Akuno said. “Standing Rock forced the wider society to look at itself, its history and its origins. It raised serious questions. Do we want human civilization to survive? Are we willing to destroy ourselves for short-term profit? Standing Rock exposed the U.S. colonial project and challenged capitalist logic. It showed us that we have to make a choice between oil and water. It asked us which will take priority for human beings.”

Make America Ungovernable: Chris Hedges
 

rickyb

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@rickyb

"After years of brewing at home, Evan Sallee and his partners at Fair State Brewing, Minnesota’s first consumer-owned beer cooperative, were finally ready to open a taproom in Minneapolis. They needed a spot that could accommodate brewing, with a storefront that invited people in off the street. That combination was hard to find until they looked at a space on Central Avenue in the city’s Northeast neighborhood."

How Neighbors Turned Unused Buildings into a Thriving Community Hub
businesses are having problems with rising property prices and whatever in my city as well.
 

rickyb

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Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bull:censored2:. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.
 

rickyb

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the far right wing candidate of france called Globalisation "manufacturing by slaves".

i assume shes partly referring to paid labour under capitalism.

in the old debates in america about whether to get rid of slave labour or not, the slave masters would argue they treat their slave property well, while the capitalists didnt treat their workers like dogs.
 

rickyb

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amazon is notorious for its bad labor practices. undercover journalists have worked in amazon warehouses to do reports on the conditions.

since its a competitor of UPS now, you can expect UPS conditions to worsen.

i thought UPS was pretty pathetic when i was there, its been a while since ive seen people work so fast out of fear. i thought the training was very inadequate and burearcratic; they wasted alot of time just getting us to remember that stupid 4 paragraph driving paper.
 

rickyb

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richard wolffs monthly economic update. he is a famous marxist economist in america, and very famous on the left. hes done speeches on the left forum with chris hedges and cornel west, has a radio show on 60 stations which started 6 or so years ago.

his monthly economic updates used to get 2000 views, the last one was his highest yet with 100,000 views.

socialism lives. heres to getting rid of capitalism and owning it and running it ourselves.


on a side note, i dont really get why the right wing freaks out about immigrants; its not like these people are rich and have lobbyists.
 

rickyb

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Stephanie Kelton ‏@StephanieKelton 8h8 hours ago




Labor Force Participation Rates #OneSadStory
Age 16-19 Age 55+
1990 55% 30%
2016 35% 40%

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