CEO Compensation Increased 940% Between 1978 and 2018, Workers’ Only by 12%

[jc456]

Actually stupid if we lessen trade with China the need for goods does not change, so factories and jobs will be created here.

Now stop farting

In your dreams.

Actually kid it's already happening, we have the lowest unemployment and the most people working ever

Jobs haven't been brought back.

Sure they have, you should watch an actual news channel

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

 

[Frannie]

In your dreams.

Actually kid it's already happening, we have the lowest unemployment and the most people working ever

Jobs haven't been brought back.

Sure they have, you should watch an actual news channel

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

Strong job growth is back: Payrolls jump in June well above expectations

Payrolls rise 164,000 as labor force sets a record high

America has never been greater

 

[pknopp]

In your dreams.

Actually kid it's already happening, we have the lowest unemployment and the most people working ever

Jobs haven't been brought back.

Sure they have, you should watch an actual news channel

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

You would post a link to the story explaining how many jobs that were in China have come back.

 

[georgephillip]

Workers' wages also rise when there's an increase in UNION representation.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Perhaps. Do you wish to address my point about surplus labor?


Or is bringing in more dem voters more important than concern about wages?

Perhaps. Do you wish to address my point about surplus labor?

All human labor is a thing of value, i.e., a commodity, but unlike other commodities labor also creates value. The "owners" of the means of production derive their profit from exploiting the surplus labor of their workers.

In this system owners do everything necessary to increase profit: they fire workers, while expecting those who remain to increase productivity. They decrease benefits and set workers in competition with one another which drives down wages.

In short, it's not immigrants who decrease wages; it is the inherent unfairness of businesses run for profits which are split between owners and high-end managers, but where none of the surplus goes to the workers who create it.

Exploitation & Surplus Value

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How's the air quality in Bejing from all that "clean, clean coal", Kulak?

Another "Chinese hoax?"

 

[georgephillip]

Here again, you have to make it about me as opposed to the discussion because you can't defend your position.

I'm 57. I perfectly remember 40 years ago but once again, IT IS NOT ABOUT ME.

/——/ Then you should know better than that ridiculous unfounded claim, even the 12% claim by the OP is way off. You know better.

Wages is only a part of the picture. 40 years ago cable was something like $17 a month. Now it is $100 - $200. 40 years ago the markets weren't demanding more, more, more.

/——/ Now you’re moving the goal posts and back peddling. Your original claim was 0.3% increase over 40 years.

I never made that claim.

/—-/ It was Frankie post #362

It's either about bringing jobs back or it's not.

Sounds like both ideas are about bringing the jobs back.


I'm not poo pooing your punitive taxes idea. Why are you poo pooing tariffs?

That has been discussed over and over.

And generally, people against it complain that it is a tax that will raise costs to the consumer and, they claim, not work.


YOU on the other hand, are arguing FOR a more formal tax, so, what is your issue with tariffs?

It's been discussed endlessly. I already explained earlier today why I prefer taxing the corporation. If you wished to ignore that, I'm not going to repeat myself endlessly.

/—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

And even after all those patient explanations you still can't answer this question: what benefits would natural citizens acquire from requiring corporations to pay their fair share in supporting the government that makes their existence possible?

How about free higher education?
Medicare for All?
UBI?

 

[Frannie]

Perhaps. Do you wish to address my point about surplus labor?


Or is bringing in more dem voters more important than concern about wages?

Perhaps. Do you wish to address my point about surplus labor?

All human labor is a thing of value, i.e., a commodity, but unlike other commodities labor also creates value. The "owners" of the means of production derive their profit from exploiting the surplus labor of their workers.

In this system owners do everything necessary to increase profit: they fire workers, while expecting those who remain to increase productivity. They decrease benefits and set workers in competition with one another which drives down wages.

In short, it's not immigrants who decrease wages; it is the inherent unfairness of businesses run for profits which are split between owners and high-end managers, but where none of the surplus goes to the workers who create it.

Exploitation & Surplus Value

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How's the air quality in Bejing from all that "clean, clean coal", Kulak?

Another "Chinese hoax?"

The air quality because of the pollution is terrible. Are you aware that pollution is not climate?

Nope because you are a zombie

 

[Cellblock2429]

/——/ Then you should know better than that ridiculous unfounded claim, even the 12% claim by the OP is way off. You know better.

Wages is only a part of the picture. 40 years ago cable was something like $17 a month. Now it is $100 - $200. 40 years ago the markets weren't demanding more, more, more.

/——/ Now you’re moving the goal posts and back peddling. Your original claim was 0.3% increase over 40 years.

I never made that claim.

/—-/ It was Frankie post #362

Sounds like both ideas are about bringing the jobs back.


I'm not poo pooing your punitive taxes idea. Why are you poo pooing tariffs?

That has been discussed over and over.

And generally, people against it complain that it is a tax that will raise costs to the consumer and, they claim, not work.


YOU on the other hand, are arguing FOR a more formal tax, so, what is your issue with tariffs?

It's been discussed endlessly. I already explained earlier today why I prefer taxing the corporation. If you wished to ignore that, I'm not going to repeat myself endlessly.

/—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

And even after all those patient explanations you still can't answer this question: what benefits would natural citizens acquire from requiring corporations to pay their fair share in supporting the government that makes their existence possible?

How about free higher education?
Medicare for All?
UBI?

/——/ Because the cost filters down to you and me in the form of higher retail prices you idiot

 

[georgephillip]

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

/——-/ Bullshyt. Capitalism has created the greatest standard of living in the shortest amount of time in world history. American poor are better off than poor anywhere else.

The number of Communists leaving America to escape capitalism——- ZERO.

/——-/ Bullshyt. Capitalism has created the greatest standard of living in the shortest amount of time in world history. American poor are better off than poor anywhere else.

The American poor are better off because for-profit American bombs are not falling on their schools, roads, and hospitals. The lifestyle you worship has been paid for with the deaths, mutilations, and displacement of millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar. And now even working class residents of North America and Europe are being buried under an avalanche of consumer debt while ten percent of their countrymen and women prosper.

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

"Forty-two billionaires now enjoy as much wealth as half the world’s population, while the three richest men in the United States—Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett—have more wealth than half the U.S. population.10 In every region of the world, inequality has increased sharply in recent decades.11 The gap in per capita income and wealth between the richest and poorest nations, which has been the dominant trend for centuries, is rapidly widening once again.12"

/——-/ So? It’s none of your business what others make. Go start your own business in your garage like Bezos did. Build your own Amazon.

/——-/ So? It’s none of your business what others make. Go start your own business in your garage like Bezos did. Build your own Amazon.

It doesn't matter where Bezos started; he "earned" his current fortune by exploiting the surplus labor of his 556,000 employees.

Jeff does a fraction of the daily labor at Amazon, yet he's amassed $120 billion in compensation.

That occurred for only one reason. Capitalists have written the laws regarding how the spoils of industry are divided up.

It doesn't matter where Bezos started; he "earned" his current fortune by exploiting the surplus labor of his 556,000 employees.

Unlike Soviet Russia, his workers are free to leave and start their own corporation at any time.

Unlike Soviet Russia, his workers are free to leave and start their own corporation at any time.

Jeff Bezos and the Parasitical Nature of Capitalism

"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $90 billion. He was named Fortune magazine’s 'businessperson of the year' in 2012. You don’t amass such wealth, and gain such accolades, by being a wonderful human being.

"You do it off the backs of tens of thousands of desperate workers.

"You do it by taking advantage of a working-class majority that is forced to sell its labor for whatever scraps they can get in return. You do it through mass exploitation, or as Fortune magazine calls it, 'penny-pinching'"

You get your fortune by bribing corrupt politicians for favorable tax, trade, and labor laws.

 

[georgephillip]

Wages is only a part of the picture. 40 years ago cable was something like $17 a month. Now it is $100 - $200. 40 years ago the markets weren't demanding more, more, more.

/——/ Now you’re moving the goal posts and back peddling. Your original claim was 0.3% increase over 40 years.

I never made that claim.

/—-/ It was Frankie post #362

That has been discussed over and over.

And generally, people against it complain that it is a tax that will raise costs to the consumer and, they claim, not work.


YOU on the other hand, are arguing FOR a more formal tax, so, what is your issue with tariffs?

It's been discussed endlessly. I already explained earlier today why I prefer taxing the corporation. If you wished to ignore that, I'm not going to repeat myself endlessly.

/—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

And even after all those patient explanations you still can't answer this question: what benefits would natural citizens acquire from requiring corporations to pay their fair share in supporting the government that makes their existence possible?

How about free higher education?
Medicare for All?
UBI?

/——/ Because the cost filters down to you and me in the form of higher retail prices you idiot

/——/ Because the cost filters down to you and me in the form of higher retail prices you idiot

What benefits could government provide its natural citizens in exchange for any "higher retail prices"? Would you pay those higher retail prices in exchange for millions of Green New Deal jobs? Corporations are citizens, so why are they exempt from paying their fair share in federal taxes ESPECIALLY since corporations depend on an official government charter for their very existence? More than two dozen big corporations including GE, Verizon, and Boeing pay no federal income taxes in many years while reaping billions of dollars in profits often paid for by your taxes (if you pay any)

 

[georgephillip]

All human labor is a thing of value, i.e., a commodity, but unlike other commodities labor also creates value. The "owners" of the means of production derive their profit from exploiting the surplus labor of their workers.

In this system owners do everything necessary to increase profit: they fire workers, while expecting those who remain to increase productivity. They decrease benefits and set workers in competition with one another which drives down wages.

In short, it's not immigrants who decrease wages; it is the inherent unfairness of businesses run for profits which are split between owners and high-end managers, but where none of the surplus goes to the workers who create it.

Exploitation & Surplus Value

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How's the air quality in Bejing from all that "clean, clean coal", Kulak?

Another "Chinese hoax?"

The air quality because of the pollution is terrible. Are you aware that pollution is not climate?

Nope because you are a zombie

The air quality because of the pollution is terrible. Are you aware that pollution is not climate?

How long before pollution becomes climate, Rube?

Climate - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Climate means the usual condition of the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, and other meteorological elements in an area of the Earth's surface for a long time. In simple terms climate is the average condition for about thirty years. Climate and weather are different weather is the day to day conditions in the atmosphere."

 

[jc456]

Actually kid it's already happening, we have the lowest unemployment and the most people working ever

Jobs haven't been brought back.

Sure they have, you should watch an actual news channel

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

You would post a link to the story explaining how many jobs that were in China have come back.

They aren’t one for one that’s not how it works. See steel plants opened back up, did you know that? Let’s start there

 

[jc456]

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

/——-/ And Communism is the ultimate solution—- right?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How much better is the average Chinese worker doing under failed capitalism today versus under successful communism in the past?

How's the air quality in Bejing from all that "clean, clean coal", Kulak?

Another "Chinese hoax?"

The air quality because of the pollution is terrible. Are you aware that pollution is not climate?

Nope because you are a zombie

The air quality because of the pollution is terrible. Are you aware that pollution is not climate?

How long before pollution becomes climate, Rube?

Climate - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Climate means the usual condition of the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, and other meteorological elements in an area of the Earth's surface for a long time. In simple terms climate is the average condition for about thirty years. Climate and weather are different weather is the day to day conditions in the atmosphere."

Now how is pollution in that? Highlight that in your post

 

[jc456]

Wages is only a part of the picture. 40 years ago cable was something like $17 a month. Now it is $100 - $200. 40 years ago the markets weren't demanding more, more, more.

/——/ Now you’re moving the goal posts and back peddling. Your original claim was 0.3% increase over 40 years.

I never made that claim.

/—-/ It was Frankie post #362

That has been discussed over and over.

And generally, people against it complain that it is a tax that will raise costs to the consumer and, they claim, not work.


YOU on the other hand, are arguing FOR a more formal tax, so, what is your issue with tariffs?

It's been discussed endlessly. I already explained earlier today why I prefer taxing the corporation. If you wished to ignore that, I'm not going to repeat myself endlessly.

/—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

And even after all those patient explanations you still can't answer this question: what benefits would natural citizens acquire from requiring corporations to pay their fair share in supporting the government that makes their existence possible?

How about free higher education?
Medicare for All?
UBI?

/——/ Because the cost filters down to you and me in the form of higher retail prices you idiot

He isn’t smart enough to know that.

 

[georgephillip]

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

/——-/ Bullshyt. Capitalism has created the greatest standard of living in the shortest amount of time in world history. American poor are better off than poor anywhere else.

The number of Communists leaving America to escape capitalism——- ZERO.

/——-/ Bullshyt. Capitalism has created the greatest standard of living in the shortest amount of time in world history. American poor are better off than poor anywhere else.

The American poor are better off because for-profit American bombs are not falling on their schools, roads, and hospitals. The lifestyle you worship has been paid for with the deaths, mutilations, and displacement of millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar. And now even working class residents of North America and Europe are being buried under an avalanche of consumer debt while ten percent of their countrymen and women prosper.

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

"Forty-two billionaires now enjoy as much wealth as half the world’s population, while the three richest men in the United States—Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett—have more wealth than half the U.S. population.10 In every region of the world, inequality has increased sharply in recent decades.11 The gap in per capita income and wealth between the richest and poorest nations, which has been the dominant trend for centuries, is rapidly widening once again.12"

/——-/ So? It’s none of your business what others make. Go start your own business in your garage like Bezos did. Build your own Amazon.

/——-/ So? It’s none of your business what others make. Go start your own business in your garage like Bezos did. Build your own Amazon.

It doesn't matter where Bezos started; he "earned" his current fortune by exploiting the surplus labor of his 556,000 employees.

Jeff does a fraction of the daily labor at Amazon, yet he's amassed $120 billion in compensation.

That occurred for only one reason. Capitalists have written the laws regarding how the spoils of industry are divided up.

Start your own company?

Start your own company?

Without the exploitation.

"Contemporary capitalism no longer 'delivers the goods'—understood as a rising standard of real wages—to the majority of people. That classic defense of its instability (recurrent bouts of unemployment, lost output, and wasted resources), its deepening economic, political, and cultural inequalities (as Thomas Piketty documents), and the attendant injustices are no longer plausible.

"In the U.S. since the 1970s, and especially since 2007, those who control the dominant capitalist enterprises and the resulting economic 'development' made decisions that undermined the delivery of rising standards of living to the mass of people."

Start With Worker Self-Directed Enterprises

 

[pknopp]

Jobs haven't been brought back.

Sure they have, you should watch an actual news channel

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

You would post a link to the story explaining how many jobs that were in China have come back.

They aren’t one for one that’s not how it works. See steel plants opened back up, did you know that? Let’s start there

Which steel plants?

 

[jc456]

/——/ Now you’re moving the goal posts and back peddling. Your original claim was 0.3% increase over 40 years.

I never made that claim.

/—-/ It was Frankie post #362

And generally, people against it complain that it is a tax that will raise costs to the consumer and, they claim, not work.


YOU on the other hand, are arguing FOR a more formal tax, so, what is your issue with tariffs?

It's been discussed endlessly. I already explained earlier today why I prefer taxing the corporation. If you wished to ignore that, I'm not going to repeat myself endlessly.

/—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

—-/ Taxing the corporations merely increases the cost to the consumers so we end up paying the higher tax. As it’s been explained 100 times.

And even after all those patient explanations you still can't answer this question: what benefits would natural citizens acquire from requiring corporations to pay their fair share in supporting the government that makes their existence possible?

How about free higher education?
Medicare for All?
UBI?

/——/ Because the cost filters down to you and me in the form of higher retail prices you idiot

/——/ Because the cost filters down to you and me in the form of higher retail prices you idiot

What benefits could government provide its natural citizens in exchange for any "higher retail prices"? Would you pay those higher retail prices in exchange for millions of Green New Deal jobs? Corporations are citizens, so why are they exempt from paying their fair share in federal taxes ESPECIALLY since corporations depend on an official government charter for their very existence? More than two dozen big corporations including GE, Verizon, and Boeing pay no federal income taxes in many years while reaping billions of dollars in profits often paid for by your taxes (if you pay any)

I’m not giving more money to the government for anything

 

[jc456]

Sure they have, you should watch an actual news channel

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

You would post a link to the story explaining how many jobs that were in China have come back.

They aren’t one for one that’s not how it works. See steel plants opened back up, did you know that? Let’s start there

Which steel plants?

The facts on Ohio steel mill reopenings under Donald Trump

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2019/02/15/us-steel-texas-mill.amp.html

 

[pknopp]

If they had you would have posted it.

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

You would post a link to the story explaining how many jobs that were in China have come back.

They aren’t one for one that’s not how it works. See steel plants opened back up, did you know that? Let’s start there

Which steel plants?

The facts on Ohio steel mill reopenings under Donald Trump

You post to a link noting that Trump is lying but that there was one steel mill that opened after the tariff's were announced?

 

[jc456]

How do I post the jobs exactly? Monster?

You would post a link to the story explaining how many jobs that were in China have come back.

They aren’t one for one that’s not how it works. See steel plants opened back up, did you know that? Let’s start there

Which steel plants?

The facts on Ohio steel mill reopenings under Donald Trump

You post to a link noting that Trump is lying but that there was one steel mill that opened after the tariff's were announced?

Yep, it reopened. How was he wrong? I added another in Texas

 

[georgephillip]

You could always work harder.
Or admit the obvious: capitalism isn't working for a majority of humanity.

"Less than two decades into the twenty-first century, it is evident that capitalism has failed as a social system.

"The world is mired in economic stagnation, financialization, and the most extreme inequality in human history, accompanied by mass unemployment and underemployment, precariousness, poverty, hunger, wasted output and lives, and what at this point can only be called a planetary ecological 'death spiral.'1

"The digital revolution, the greatest technological advance of our time, has rapidly mutated from a promise of free communication and liberated production into new means of surveillance, control, and displacement of the working population.

"The institutions of liberal democracy are at the point of collapse, while fascism, the rear guard of the capitalist system, is again on the march, along with patriarchy, racism, imperialism, and war."

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

/——-/ Bullshyt. Capitalism has created the greatest standard of living in the shortest amount of time in world history. American poor are better off than poor anywhere else.

The number of Communists leaving America to escape capitalism——- ZERO.

/——-/ Bullshyt. Capitalism has created the greatest standard of living in the shortest amount of time in world history. American poor are better off than poor anywhere else.

The American poor are better off because for-profit American bombs are not falling on their schools, roads, and hospitals. The lifestyle you worship has been paid for with the deaths, mutilations, and displacement of millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar. And now even working class residents of North America and Europe are being buried under an avalanche of consumer debt while ten percent of their countrymen and women prosper.

Monthly Review | Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?

"Forty-two billionaires now enjoy as much wealth as half the world’s population, while the three richest men in the United States—Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett—have more wealth than half the U.S. population.10 In every region of the world, inequality has increased sharply in recent decades.11 The gap in per capita income and wealth between the richest and poorest nations, which has been the dominant trend for centuries, is rapidly widening once again.12"

/——-/ So? It’s none of your business what others make. Go start your own business in your garage like Bezos did. Build your own Amazon.

/——-/ So? It’s none of your business what others make. Go start your own business in your garage like Bezos did. Build your own Amazon.

It doesn't matter where Bezos started; he "earned" his current fortune by exploiting the surplus labor of his 556,000 employees.

Jeff does a fraction of the daily labor at Amazon, yet he's amassed $120 billion in compensation.

That occurred for only one reason. Capitalists have written the laws regarding how the spoils of industry are divided up.

/——/ What moron thinks the CEO who founded a company should do the bulk of the manual labor? You Progs get more ridiculous everyday. What don’t those doing the manual labor go open their own business if they feel exploited? Who forces them to work there? BTW liberal NY begged Amazon to open an office in Queens. I guess Gov Cuomo likes exploited workers. You retard.

What moron thinks the CEO who founded a company should do the bulk of the manual labor? You Progs get more ridiculous everyday. What don’t those doing the manual labor go open their own business if

No one expects CEOs to do any manual labor; they are too delicate (and greedy) The percentage of profits that go to CEOs is what I'm referring to. There is no reason those profits can not be distributed among the workers whose labor creates the profits, is there? Grinding austerity, falling real wages and acute funding crises gripping schools, hospitals, and most local government services are the price society pays for the worship of the rich.