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Re:USA contrasted with...
" I'd love to hear companies speak of employees like something other than a lump of coal to be tossed into the boiler."
Not going to happen until you people start getting a clue that your masters don't even practice what they preach, you guys need to stop licking the balls of capitalist ideology so hard and ask tough questions about whether rule of law can even exist in a high tech society. How is one to hold a big company accountable when you are hundreds of miles away from it? I have serious doubts most of you guys are introspective and self critical enough to see through your leaders bullshit.
You want to be treated better you guys need to start scaring the shit out of the business community and let them know you'll stand up for your right to exist too instead of being so slave like to the business community.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Why?
Is there any actual evidence that monitoring the traditional finance industry works?
It's all smoke and mirrors for those in the know. Capitalism has never been "regulated" it's always worked in the interests of power.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
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Re:Because fuck you, that's why.
Why do so many people (other than the 1% expecting their tax cuts) continually vote against their own best interests?
Because that's the way the elites have set it up, education is ignorance and science on human reasoning shows human reasoning is much poorer than thought. These links will take a while to digest.
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Education as ignorance
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Rd wolf on economics
"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."
Crisis of democracy
http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK
Education as ignorance
Overthrowing other peoples governments
Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list
Wikileaks on TTIP/TPP/ETC
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
Manufacturing consent (book)
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Testing theories of representative government
Democracy Inc
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket.
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Re:Fix the REAL fucking problem.
the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.
If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
Other important info
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html
The Citibank memo
US distribution of wealth
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
This is a project of american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
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Re:tl;dr
As Richard Wolff often points out in his lectures, the USA had a constant labor shortage from the 1820s up to the 1970s. The shortage ended in part due to automation, and also because of women's liberation bringing millions more people into the workforce. For that entire period, American workers enjoyed steadily rising wages, but wages have flatlined ever since, despite continually rising productivity.
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Re: In otherwards
Check out Democracy At Work by Richard Wolff, or watch his lecture on the same topic.
In a nutshell: He advocates worker-owned and -controlled enterprises as a way to achieve the same goals without relying on gov't regulations or labor unions. Such a transition would take time of course, but it's a way to realize those "libertarian" ideals as well.
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Re:Moo
Adjuncts are also handy for keeping your payroll costs down. Economist Richard Wolff mentions this often in his lectures. It's the same trend toward part-time work that shows up in a lot of industries lately.
My suspicious side notes that this study in TFA is rather convenient for academic administrators who might want to "enhance the institution's bottom line" by reducing the number of tenured faculty. But I'm sure there's no connection, and it would never be used like that.
Knowing some of those adjuncts working at a local college, I can say that if they are working harder, it could quite possibly be because those tenure tracked professorships are being dangled in front of them like carrots. Sometimes with many desiring the same spot while waiting for a person to retire. Then it really sucks when the person does retire and instead of the adjunct who has been teaching all the classes, written all the course work, and otherwise worked their ass off for that position for years, doesn't get it so the dean can give it to a political ally from outside the college with no experience in the field.
The situation is very similar to the tech industry working people to death with overtime with promises of permanent employment, bonuses, or other perks, but just working them till they burn out and replacing them instead.
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Re:Moo
Adjuncts are also handy for keeping your payroll costs down. Economist Richard Wolff mentions this often in his lectures. It's the same trend toward part-time work that shows up in a lot of industries lately.
My suspicious side notes that this study in TFA is rather convenient for academic administrators who might want to "enhance the institution's bottom line" by reducing the number of tenured faculty. But I'm sure there's no connection, and it would never be used like that.
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Re:Humanicide
And what pray tell do you suggest the billions of workers of the world do once we reach the end point of automation technology - rendering the bulk of today's jobs obsolete?
Kick back and enjoy free shit, dumbass.
There is no way we can continue supporting billions of people on this planet with increasing income inequality.
FTFY. See prof. Richard Wolff's lecture.