Thanks for telling me thisâ"And here I thought I was getting along just fine, since I don't even have a credit card and my debit card has worked without issues for me in every country I've ever visited (about 30 of those, last time I bothered to count). Silly me!
Try renting a car with a debit card and get back to us, snowflake.
No it isn't. Even if you have a credit card with a 25% interest rate, you still get a grace period before interest is due and you can pay it off and owe NO interest whatsoever. Nothing usurious about that.
25% is the definition of usurious a few times over.
That's not where MSNBC get their numbers, wouldn't be big enough.
You mean poisoned groundwater? That shit is quantifiable, measurable. Not, ermagurd our well water tastes crappy, must be Massey Energy.
It amazes me to see people that criticize Fox, cite MSNBC. It's like they have no self awareness at all.
You saying that to the nearest mirror? MSNBC was co-founded by a weapons contractor, and shills for the other party full of right-wing capitalist warmongers.
Fracking is older than Hillary.
Who said she invented it, clown shoes? Obama didn't invent offshore drilling either, but that doesn't change the fact he opened far more oceanfronts to oil companies than Bush ever did.
Problem with your storyline: I trash SJW's all the time. If only you could take your self and all your bigoted dumbfuck friends and move out to an island with SJW's, so you can righteously throw your own excrement at each other while engaging in delusions of moral superiority.
It is obviously true, because you are forgetting the implicit "all other things being the same" condition. All other things being the same, doubling the cost of labor will absolutely cause the prices to go up. It cannot do otherwise.
More absolute nonsense, as prices are set to maximize revenue. Let's say you're middle management and you come into the CEO's office, to tell him that you've raised prices in response to the latest increase in the minimum wage. He asks if the price increase has cost the company more in lost customers than it has gained in creased revenue, and you tell him no. Then he fires your dumb ass for not doing that price increase years ago, so the company could enjoy more profits.
If you have a shift of ten people at McDs and the wages (and associated taxes, etc) double, then the prices will come out of quarterly profits
FTFY.
What was that? "Productivity goes up"?
Yeah, its been steadily going up for decades. Which means you have even less of an excuse to deny an increase in the minimum wage, when workers are producing more and more and more for their feudal overlords.
Tell it to the 60k people in Ontario who lost their job when the minimum wage was increased by $2.40/hr.
Problem: the "job losses" opponents of minimum wage cry about are almost entirely due to people being able to work at one or two jobs to get by, instead of two or three. As for the remainder, if your business doesn't pay a living wage, your business doesn't deserve to exist. And you never talk about the job increases due to all the money going into local economies, because workers have more money to spend, i.e. there's more demand, the source of all jobs. Not giving capitalist scumfucks more cash in case some if it trickles down to a prole.
This just shows the problem with creating a really high minimum wage.
Few things are quite as American as describing an increased standard of living for the working class as a "problem".
Everyone who was already making that amount will want a raise, too.
That's a feature, not a bug.
I hope Amazon loves the results of their social experiment. It will only prove to them how over-employeed they are and push for even more automation
Do you like your corporatist boots black, or do you like them with a bit of sugar? Amazon would be pursuing robotic automation whether they were paying $15 or $1.50 an hour. As soon as it's feasible, mass production will commence immediately and most of their human warehouse staff would be laid off regardless. So maybe not be such a tool for a man that could pay for free college in the United States and end world hunger all by himself, and not even notice unless his accountants told him of the reduction in his net worth?
We saw this same story with the instant search results in Safari - just more propaganda to allow the media to engage in censorship and propaganda by selecting what you may see. And it's not like they're going to stop at blocking, say, Holocaust Denial when someone searches for "Jews". They'll also block shit like anyone who questions the conspiracy theories that Trump worked with Russia to steal an election, or that Assad decides to gas his own people whenever US politicians try to back away from regime change.
And it's not like the hysteria over fake news is ever going to be applied to mainstream news organizations. If all this hysteria was around in 2002-2003, Iraq war skeptics would have been censored, not media figures and organizations that relentlessly lied Americans into a war that cost trillions of dollars and over a million lives.
If corporations gave a shit what the left (which begins at anti-capitalism), the Sioux never would have had to protest the DAPL pipeline, the media wouldn't have shoved Hillary down the throats of primary voters, CNN would have been calling for Obama's impeachment for breaking up Occupy Wall Street, etc etc.
Outfits like the right-wing Atlantic Council and Weekly Standard have established what the acceptable truth is.
"Ethics" is just morality in a wig, dressed up for atheists who aren't honest enough and strong enough to embrace the nihilism that is the inescapable consequence of their faith.
Riiiiight. You realize that anyone who uses this line of reasoning is saying the only thing that's keeping them from murdering, robbing and raping is a belief in invisible sky gods? And you think this speaks well of you?
Well not if you actually believe in evolution instead of just hating people that don't. Which is the problem with so much of the SJW agenda, it isn't positive or reasoned it's just people that have a desperate need to give the middle finger to anyone that resembles their parents.
Because Uber isn't a scam??? Their entire business model is predicated on the notion that they can drive other taxi companies out of business, in time for their self-driving technology to take flight before running out of the venture capital allowing them to lose billions every year. At which point they promptly let all of their human drivers go while jacking up rates. This is so obvious that Ray Charles could see it. And Ray Charles is blind.
And dead. What's your excuse for this venture capitalist bootlicking?
It does not matter what the USA does in the present since China and India are the ones with global carbon load in their power.
Both India and China have many times the population that the United States has. Which means, Slick, that they get to pollute many times as much as the United States does. For the same reason the US gets to pollute more than the Vatican.
The USA does have use for coal in the present, so it makes sense to mine it, their is no reason to reduce our standard of living or wealth because of agenda driven "symbolism over substance" type people with inferior reasoning powers, ie. you.
It is when you've lead the way in fossil fool use for decades, have the #1 carbon polluting institution on the planet (the US military), much of the pollution you whine about in other countries is used to produce consumer products for your entitled ass, and your are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Any more dumbass questions?
The IPCC is making objectively false claims about nuclear energy, and discouraging an effective and blah blah blah
Putting the risk of meltdowns aside entirely, nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone. It costs too damn much and time to build, too damn much to maintain and operate, and too damn much to deal with the waste for tens of thousands of years. When other power sources can be rolled in in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost, with none of the risk or long long LONG term storage problems....why even.
Black lung. It's not a new discovery. And as for making partisan hay over MSDNC....Democrats have been bigger fossil fuel men than Republicans. Hilldabeast exported fracking to the world, and Obomber ran around bragging that oil was being drilled faster than it could be brought to market.
That happens when you're not only the worst raging asshole on the planet, but worse than all other assholes combined.
how does this "taking the high road" change anything?
Not much - when the US lags other countries on pretty much everything that doesn't involve income inequality, number of prisoners incarcerated, or warmongering, and has done so for quite some time.
Catch up to what? Reducing their CO2 output? The USA has already been doing far better on this than many other nations in the world, and they aren't even trying.
Not only is the the the United States the richest country in the history of the world, much of the third world carbon pollution that American Exceptionalists whine about is used to create all the consumer products that American Exceptionalists buy in stores.
and more new power reactors will be coming online soon
Because someone wants to throw billions of dollars into a dumpster and set it on fire? Putting aside the risk of meltdowns entirely, nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone.
China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan need to go first and cut their electricity generation from coal to be the same percentage or lower than the EU/USA. 75% of the world's population should not get a pass for another 20 years while the EU/USA take all of the economic penalties.
So 75% of the world needs to pollute less than 15% of the world, because reasons - you even listening to yourself? It's per capita or nothing, toolbag. Otherwise the Vatican, population one thousand, is free to pollute as much as much as the United States, population 320+ million.
The trouble with that is, the store employees will likely pick out your stuff for you in rotation of stock that is best for the STORE, not YOU....
The grocery business is ferociously competitive, unless you're in a small town with a single store. So if the manager is doing the picking, she probably won't stick you with a filet of fish that expires the day of your order, because they want you as a return customer. But if it's a regular employee they probably won't give a shit either way.
My crotchety old grandfather (picture Abe Simpson) would always rant that the guy working in produce was trying to rip him off. Moldy carrots, a bag of potatoes with at least one gone bad, etc. I had to keep telling him - grandpa, they don't care. They don't get paid to care.
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Try renting a car with a debit card and get back to us, snowflake.
25% is the definition of usurious a few times over.
You mean poisoned groundwater? That shit is quantifiable, measurable. Not, ermagurd our well water tastes crappy, must be Massey Energy.
You saying that to the nearest mirror? MSNBC was co-founded by a weapons contractor, and shills for the other party full of right-wing capitalist warmongers.
Who said she invented it, clown shoes? Obama didn't invent offshore drilling either, but that doesn't change the fact he opened far more oceanfronts to oil companies than Bush ever did.
Problem with your storyline: I trash SJW's all the time. If only you could take your self and all your bigoted dumbfuck friends and move out to an island with SJW's, so you can righteously throw your own excrement at each other while engaging in delusions of moral superiority.
More absolute nonsense, as prices are set to maximize revenue. Let's say you're middle management and you come into the CEO's office, to tell him that you've raised prices in response to the latest increase in the minimum wage. He asks if the price increase has cost the company more in lost customers than it has gained in creased revenue, and you tell him no. Then he fires your dumb ass for not doing that price increase years ago, so the company could enjoy more profits.
FTFY.
Yeah, its been steadily going up for decades. Which means you have even less of an excuse to deny an increase in the minimum wage, when workers are producing more and more and more for their feudal overlords.
See also, A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills
Only in America.
Problem: the "job losses" opponents of minimum wage cry about are almost entirely due to people being able to work at one or two jobs to get by, instead of two or three. As for the remainder, if your business doesn't pay a living wage, your business doesn't deserve to exist. And you never talk about the job increases due to all the money going into local economies, because workers have more money to spend, i.e. there's more demand, the source of all jobs. Not giving capitalist scumfucks more cash in case some if it trickles down to a prole.
Few things are quite as American as describing an increased standard of living for the working class as a "problem".
That's a feature, not a bug.
Do you like your corporatist boots black, or do you like them with a bit of sugar? Amazon would be pursuing robotic automation whether they were paying $15 or $1.50 an hour. As soon as it's feasible, mass production will commence immediately and most of their human warehouse staff would be laid off regardless. So maybe not be such a tool for a man that could pay for free college in the United States and end world hunger all by himself, and not even notice unless his accountants told him of the reduction in his net worth?
We saw this same story with the instant search results in Safari - just more propaganda to allow the media to engage in censorship and propaganda by selecting what you may see. And it's not like they're going to stop at blocking, say, Holocaust Denial when someone searches for "Jews". They'll also block shit like anyone who questions the conspiracy theories that Trump worked with Russia to steal an election, or that Assad decides to gas his own people whenever US politicians try to back away from regime change.
And it's not like the hysteria over fake news is ever going to be applied to mainstream news organizations. If all this hysteria was around in 2002-2003, Iraq war skeptics would have been censored, not media figures and organizations that relentlessly lied Americans into a war that cost trillions of dollars and over a million lives.
If corporations gave a shit what the left (which begins at anti-capitalism), the Sioux never would have had to protest the DAPL pipeline, the media wouldn't have shoved Hillary down the throats of primary voters, CNN would have been calling for Obama's impeachment for breaking up Occupy Wall Street, etc etc.
FTFY
Riiiiight. You realize that anyone who uses this line of reasoning is saying the only thing that's keeping them from murdering, robbing and raping is a belief in invisible sky gods? And you think this speaks well of you?
FTBSFY
So much willful, bigoted dumbfuckery.
Yes, getting rid of a bigoted POS was upholding ethics. Any more questions?
...POS, keep it to yourself, Eich.
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Because Uber isn't a scam??? Their entire business model is predicated on the notion that they can drive other taxi companies out of business, in time for their self-driving technology to take flight before running out of the venture capital allowing them to lose billions every year. At which point they promptly let all of their human drivers go while jacking up rates. This is so obvious that Ray Charles could see it. And Ray Charles is blind.
And dead. What's your excuse for this venture capitalist bootlicking?
You're free to stop engaging in it at any time.
Both India and China have many times the population that the United States has. Which means, Slick, that they get to pollute many times as much as the United States does. For the same reason the US gets to pollute more than the Vatican.
It is when you've lead the way in fossil fool use for decades, have the #1 carbon polluting institution on the planet (the US military), much of the pollution you whine about in other countries is used to produce consumer products for your entitled ass, and your are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Any more dumbass questions?
Putting the risk of meltdowns aside entirely, nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone. It costs too damn much and time to build, too damn much to maintain and operate, and too damn much to deal with the waste for tens of thousands of years. When other power sources can be rolled in in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost, with none of the risk or long long LONG term storage problems....why even.
If pumped storage is good enough for nuclear, it's good enough for other power sources, beggar.
Black lung. It's not a new discovery. And as for making partisan hay over MSDNC....Democrats have been bigger fossil fuel men than Republicans. Hilldabeast exported fracking to the world, and Obomber ran around bragging that oil was being drilled faster than it could be brought to market.
That happens when you're not only the worst raging asshole on the planet, but worse than all other assholes combined.
Not much - when the US lags other countries on pretty much everything that doesn't involve income inequality, number of prisoners incarcerated, or warmongering, and has done so for quite some time.
Not only is the the the United States the richest country in the history of the world, much of the third world carbon pollution that American Exceptionalists whine about is used to create all the consumer products that American Exceptionalists buy in stores.
Because someone wants to throw billions of dollars into a dumpster and set it on fire? Putting aside the risk of meltdowns entirely, nuclear power is unjustifiable based on cost alone.
So 75% of the world needs to pollute less than 15% of the world, because reasons - you even listening to yourself? It's per capita or nothing, toolbag. Otherwise the Vatican, population one thousand, is free to pollute as much as much as the United States, population 320+ million.
The grocery business is ferociously competitive, unless you're in a small town with a single store. So if the manager is doing the picking, she probably won't stick you with a filet of fish that expires the day of your order, because they want you as a return customer. But if it's a regular employee they probably won't give a shit either way.
My crotchety old grandfather (picture Abe Simpson) would always rant that the guy working in produce was trying to rip him off. Moldy carrots, a bag of potatoes with at least one gone bad, etc. I had to keep telling him - grandpa, they don't care. They don't get paid to care.
Who do you think? It's not rocket science.
Pedant, did you read the summary, or know what the company's primary business is?