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- utopian0
- 4-5 years ago when we were looking for VC the first investors we had were disappointed that our company didn't aimed for eu funds, 2 years later I learned why.sted
- The U.S. and Israel are always looking the other way, I wonder why?utopian
- Why would a scammer investor waste time meeting a tv crew?shapesalad
- "we don't want reporters calling us" meets reporter and has her in his car.shapesalad
- LOL everybody in israel knows about the diamond district and investment scams.renderedred
- diamond district is a cesspool of criminal activityrenderedred
- shapesalad0
If you want to save money... go shopping only when the stores are closed. Top tip. Thank me later.
- utopian-3
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk increased their wealth by $217 billion in 2020. For this amount, over 100 million Americans could get $2,000 checks.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk alone increased their net worth by $217 billion last year, according to Bloomberg.
For this amount, more than 100 million Americans can receive $2,000 checks.
Collectively, the net worth of the world's 500 richest people rose to about $1.8 trillion, a 31% increase that represents the largest annual gain in the eight years that Bloomberg has tracked these figures.
- Destroy them all.face_melter
- Not their fault that the US is in the shitter currently but their wealth is going up. They created businesses that people want and pay for it and see value in.NBQ00
- That said, I can't stand Bezos and the fact that Amazon pays their factory workers like shit while making such big profits.NBQ00
- Musk created nothing and Bezos started his adventure with a few hundred thousands from his parents.face_melter
- lolNBQ00
- utopian3
Pandemic Failure, Vaccine Success Indict American Monopoly Capitalism
This vaccine victory is bittersweet. We have lost so many Americans to the virus, who didn’t have to die. Many of them died because of stubbornly pro-capitalist public policy.
- why are so many canadians flying down to Florida to get the FREE vaccine?hotroddy
- You're referring to those canadians who own property in Florida. Snowbirds. The hospitals aren't giving them the vaccine. They've said that flat out.monospaced
- Those that are, are doing it because they feel it's the right thing to do to get as many people vaccinated as possible.monospaced
- I guess what I'm saying is that the shit response that got us in this mess isn't cancelled out by giving the vaccine out without proof of residency.monospaced
- my point is that Canadians (with their free healthcare) are finding it easier to get it in Florida.hotroddy
- Also, snowbirds are 'residents' of Canada. If they were residents of USA they'd be American residents.hotroddy
- ignore my resident comment as I misunderstood your last pointhotroddy
- It's because your healthcare system has no control over who gets a vaccine, foreigners can just fly in and steal doses from your citizens. It's almostzarkonite
- impossible to jump the queue in Canada, we're stricly following scientific guidelines to distribute the vaccine.zarkonite
- So our self-entitled ass holes can fly down to America's used condom to get their shots.zarkonite
- There’s a strict queue and rollout schedule in most places based entirely on necessity and priority. He is focusing on like 3 hospitals only. Very small.monospaced
- You're so clueless the vaccine doesn't stop you from getting covid. You are so brainwashed Putopian.Hayoth
- @mono it's a florida thing, shocking =)zarkonite
- ********2
Some elderly Canadians who own second homes in the USA are flying to the USA to get the vaccine sooner.
Do you think this is an indication that the American healthcare system is better than Canada? Really?!!?
Your federal tax dollars are buying vaccines for Canadians.
Canadians in Canada are receving the vaccine according to need, just like Americans. Now, who is paying for this? The government. (In other words, everyone.) When something really bad hit, suddenly America adopted "socialized medicine." Why? Because it makes way more sense.
Anyway, the point is this: under the US system, without a doubt at least a few American citizens will die from COVID-19 because the government decided to give it to some Canadian landowners first, for free.
Nothing about that indicates a better healthcare system.
- is that how you see it? really? how about the illegal Mexicans, el Salvadorans, Guatemalans?hotroddy
- if USA denied vaccines for any immigrant base you'd be criticizing the health care system for being discriminatory.hotroddy
- criticize the Canadian health care for being slow and bloated. Don't criticize the USA for doing the right thing.hotroddy
- What? I’m not criticizing immigrants, man. I’m saying that giving wealthy retired Canadians the vaccine first isn’t a sign of a “better” healthcare system********
- Lol Canadian snowbirds aren’t immigrants. Good grief!********
- what are you saying? Canadians shouldn't get it but Mexicans should?hotroddy
- everybody gets vaccinate. no questions asked. Stop trying to make it about wealth, nationality, or whatever insecurity you're hung up onhotroddy
- much better than a system that's asks for proof of citizenship.hotroddy
- and I have canadian buddies who are flying their parents down for it and don't own any landhotroddy
- utopian4
- https://www.youtube.…DRIFTMONKEY
- I thought this was the capitalism thread?NonEntity
- Cold dead hands!inv
- Thank fuck. These guys are responsible for nearly every single mass shooting in the past 50 years.i_monk
- From my cold broke hands!********
- The NRA is responsible for mass shootings in the same way that Pottery Barn is responsible for making people fat, i_monk.MondoMorphic
- That's a stupid comparison and you know it.i_monk
- imbecile1
- this is why I suck at business, I'd rather pay someone locally a decent rate than pay 10 people overseas to do the same job at half the price._niko
- what a crock. plenty of poor countries that used slavery. plenty of rich countries that didn't resort to slavery.hotroddy
- ...and Catholic countries didn't develop capitalist markets...and protestant countries didn't exploit indentured workforce long before slave trade... etcNonEntity
- on a whole- protestant countries did their own farming. catholic countries relied on slaves which is why they are banana republic states today. no work ethichotroddy
- But in this country, hotroddy, it was built on slavery. There was even a war over it.monospaced
- You mean wealthy southern families earned their wealth on slavery 150 years ago.hotroddy
- Highly skilled labor built this country. It was called the industrial revolutionhotroddy
- Maybe start a thread on American capitalism... plenty countries had slaves (and not just African) and are poor and vice versa, as hotroddy mentionedNonEntity
- there's a reason why the south was always poor. Because it relied on slavery and not on industry.hotroddy
- American experience isn't the only one, or necessarily the worst one, and doesn't speak for rest of the worldNonEntity
- Generally when Americans say anything that sounds universal they're only speaking of American history/etc.i_monk
- More specifically, MLK was also speaking about America, uniquelymonospaced
- is that why he ends it w 'abroad'? I'm surprised you put so much trust in a person with a 'doctorate' in theology.hotroddy
- If the dude had traveled to a country outside of USA which participated in slavery he'd quickly realize how wrong and ignorant he is.hotroddy
- that's why he has a doctorate in theology and not anthropologyhotroddy
- he says abroad because it's spread from here, of coursemonospaced
- I didn't put any trust in him either. He was a civil rights leader, who did great things, and symbolizes just that. His words are also true.monospaced
- you're slavery spread from the USA?hotroddy
- *you're sayinghotroddy
- "Capitalism continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor here and abroad" is how you parse that last part.i_monk
- reminds me of Hugo Chavez who made a career spouting such nonsense. He destroyed a country by marginalizing the people who built the country that provided jobshotroddy
- imbecile7
Corporations Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire. Tobacco companies suppressed cancer research. And Boeing knew that its planes were dangerous. Corporations don't care if they kill people — as long as it's profitable.
- aka US coronavirus responsesarahfailin
- https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- Fanta and IBM making the corpse counter machines too. Little bit of a marketing make over and it's AOK.PhanLo
- Bernie meme here...Beeswax
- drgs3
Socialism gives freedom
- Hayomook shoots self in head.utopian
- His series will make Hayoth cry.
https://www.youtube.…PhanLo - Visit Scandinavia
https://www.youtube.…drgs - ^Lol.PhanLo
- NBQ001
FC Barcelona “on the verge of bankruptcy”.
Catalan club said to be €1.1+ Billion in debt: https://www.barcablaugranes.com/…
- utopian5
- Guys I don't think the trickle down is ever coming.i_monk
- InnovationNBQ00
- What a coincidence.********
- *ask deathboyrenderedred
- it doesn't add up.oey_oey
- so it takes 0.2 trillion to bribe the government in order to pull this off?rzu-rzu
- Trickle up economicsChimp
- LESSON: money is not created or destroyed (in significant amounts.) It only moves from one place to another.********
- Hard to add up when the formula is subtraction!noRGB
- If you get your knickers in a twist about this pretend equivalence you have no integrity.Morning_star
- Can you feed your familiy integrity? Live off integrity when you retire?i_monk
- Not sure what you mean i_monk. Are you suggesting it's ok to perpetuate bullshit comparisons to support a baseless agenda. Trump?Morning_star
- Explain what exactly you think is baseless.i_monk
- It is baseless to concluded that there is causation between the two headlines. It is baseless to also conclude that this is somehow 'capitalism'. The two...Morning_star
- ...are unconnected and unrelated. Yet it seems OK to some to try and apply causality and blame where there is none. This is exactly what Trump did.Morning_star
- [citation needed] on that unconnected/unrelate... claim.i_monk
- Are you going to contribute or are you happy being petty and evasive?Morning_star
- Says the evasive, petty propagandist.i_monk
- Yeh, didn't think so. Child.Morning_star
- Now you're just pretending the rich don't get richer by announcing mass layoffs, that corps don't spend more on stock buybacks than raises, that CEO bonuses arei_monk
- completely detached from performances, that furloughed workers still have fixed costs (with or without pandemic relief) that trickled up, that the rich don'ti_monk
- pay lower tax rates than their employees (when they pay at all), that corps were awarded pandemic relief and paid dividends anyway,i_monk
- that more and more of the global economy has shifted to precarious sub-living-wage employment while their 'contracting' (employers) spend billionsi_monk
- buying out the competition and laying off the surplus, and so on and on and on and on and on and on.i_monk
- FFS Amazon stole $61.7 million in tips from its drivers. You think that money wasn't counted as profit, and someone rewarded for doing it?i_monk
- When govts bail out industry, where do you think that money comes from? Whose services get reduced when austerity kicks in to pay for it?i_monk
- Now your turn, "child".i_monk
- Thanks dad. None of what you wrote explains the causation you insist exists between the two headlines.
The majority of the $3.7tr ‘lost’ by workers was a...Morning_star - ...direct result of the decrease in consumer spending leading to a decrease in income for businesses. To solve this jobs were lost or shifts were cancelled ...Morning_star
- ..., thus the decrease in earnings.
‘Billionaires get richer’ headlne is misleading, the assumption your making is that the ‘lost’ earnings of the workers ...Morning_star - ...is somehow finding its way into the Billionaires pockets. How exactly would that happen? the money (earnings) doesn’t exist. It hasn’t been spent by...Morning_star
- ...consumers. The ‘richer by 3.9trillion’ includes all manner of income largely unrelated to the pandemic. I would speculate that, that (3.9) figure would be...Morning_star
- ...higher if the pandemic didn’t exist. To suggest that one headline is a result of the other just isn’t true.Morning_star
- palimpsest-5
The rich are not the problem, the problem are the poor.
- Deep.NBQ00
- Keep the rich, get rid of the poor.
How do you like them apples?palimpsest - Yes round them up and shoot ‚em all. Poverty ended.NBQ00
- LOL
You didn't have to show your hand so early in the game.palimpsest - LolGnash
- You’re poor.monospaced
- You are percipient.palimpsest
- I'm sure you're of those people that think that there's nothing wrong with being poor.palimpsest
- Hedgefund lives matterGnash
- https://i.imgur.com/…
: )palimpsest - you clowns, we're all poormonospaced
- You identify as poor? I'm sure you're going to teach me a lot about poverty.
Fucking clown.palimpsest - Yes. I have a house worth less than $1M, I have 1 kid, and my retirement might be sufficient for us. That's borderline poverty in relation to what wealthy is.monospaced
- LolzGnash
- Oh shit, you actually went full Bozo.
Bravo, bravissimo!palimpsest
- NBQ000
I had no idea that in Dec 2008, John Malkovich lost his life savings to financier Madoff: https://www.asiaone.com/entertai…
