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Haven't had a car repaired in decades.And as far as exploiting... do you exploit people when they fix your car, repair your house, or add on a deck?
Yes you do, so you don't care about exploiting.
How does Bernie's net worth compare to Bezos?One thing that cracked me up, was the staff at Bernie Sanders campaign was complaining they were not paid $15/hour. So they raised their pay, and then cut back on their hours, to reduce the cost of higher pay.
How does Bernie's net worth compare to Bezos?One thing that cracked me up, was the staff at Bernie Sanders campaign was complaining they were not paid $15/hour. So they raised their pay, and then cut back on their hours, to reduce the cost of higher pay.
That’s what you get when you switch over to commodity based money to Monopoly money that can be printed infinitely.Is the US borrowing its way to Fascism?
20th century versions of the merger of state and corporate power (Germany, Japan, Italy, and Spain) interacted differently in each country's particular history and conditions.
If it comes here, the Federal Reserve will play a key role:
Richard D. Wolff - The U.S. Is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism | Brave New Europe
"Today’s crisis-ridden capitalist economy is more dependent on credit than at any time in the system’s history.
"More than ever, credit sustains the purchasing power of consumers and of government programs.
"Capitalists depend on that purchasing power..."
"Once it was mostly private entities—rich families, banks, insurance companies, and pension funds—that were the chief lenders to corporations. They bought and held the corporate bonds and IOUs.
"Now those private lenders increasingly sell their corporate bonds to the Federal Reserve.
"That happens when the corporate loans get packaged into asset-backed securities sold to the Federal Reserve.
"More recently, the Fed has undertaken the market purchase of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) composed of corporate bonds and of corporate bonds direct from their private issuers."
Some Things Never Change
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Renegade Inc - Michael Hudson: He died for our debts, not our sins | Brave New Europe
The key phrase is "their money."This by the way, is evidence in your post above, where you talked about people not paying enough taxes. As if, their money was "owed" to you. You view the money they rightfully earned, as yours. That's is proof of a slave-mentality view of the public. They exist for the benefit of the state, in left-wing ideology.
Conservatives have a gut instinct that tells them they have a moral right to their pre-tax income.
You don't.
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Convince us the "free" market distributes pre-tax income in a perfectly just manner; how is it a Wall Street speculator earns thousands of times the pre-tax income of a scientist working on a cure for cancer?
No it’s not your money: why taxation isn’t theft
Profit comes from surplus, and there was no surplus prior to the formation of the first cities.Charity existed before profit? You are crazy. Profit existed the moment the first man, traded the first lamb for the first vegetable.
For 90% of human history individuals who attempted a private surplus were banned? You are crazy. Not true.
During the time when humans lived in hunter-gatherer tribes surplus was virtually impossible to obtain, and anyone attempting to hoard more than he or she needed for survival was ostracized; the economy was based on gift giving, not on debt.
Palaces and temples dispensed credit based on agricultural cycles. Debts were regularly forgiven for "acts of god" and other disasters in Bronze Age societies.
It wasn't until Greek and Roman times when creditors assumed control of governments that humans began practicing the sort of venal zero-sum economics that capitalists worship today.
Luxury goods are goods whose demand increases more than proportionally as income rises. Necessity good have demand which increases proportionally less than income. All your examples are necessities not luxuries in this country.If you own a car, you own a luxury good. If you have air conditioning, you own a luxury good. If you have internet, you have a luxury good. If you have a cell phone, you have a luxury good.
Luxury comes from the Latin word luxus which means indulgence of the senses regardless of cost.
Amazon has over 800,000 employees with most earning between $13 to $30 dollars an hour. Greedy Jeff is worth $180 billion. There's no reason why US taxpayers should have to subsidize that level of exploitation.It's Jeff's employees job to feed themselves and their families. They could do that if they cared about their job and their employer and had a good attitude. Why it is on their employer to care more about their families than they do?
Amazon.com Inc Hourly Pay | PayScale
"Amazon.com Inc pays its employees an average of $16.55 an hour. Hourly pay at Amazon.com Inc ranges from an average of $12.36 to $29.01 an hour. Amazon.com Inc employees with the job title Technical Recruiter make the most with an average hourly rate of $32.59, while employees with the title Security Officer make the least with an average hourly rate of $12.00."
Why?Is that what Microsoft did? Tell me more!!!
You're just another greedy capitalist.
The U.S. Occupation of Haiti — Woodrow Wilson
That would depend on the color of their parachute, Pinocchio.Would they need more assistance, or less, if they quit Amazon? Pussy.
How does Bernie's net worth compare to Bezos?One thing that cracked me up, was the staff at Bernie Sanders campaign was complaining they were not paid $15/hour. So they raised their pay, and then cut back on their hours, to reduce the cost of higher pay.
Haven't had a car repaired in decades.And as far as exploiting... do you exploit people when they fix your car, repair your house, or add on a deck?
Yes you do, so you don't care about exploiting.
Never paid for home repairs.
Never needed a deck.
Amazon has over 800,000 employees with most earning between $13 to $30 dollars an hour. Greedy Jeff is worth $180 billion. There's no reason why US taxpayers should have to subsidize that level of exploitation.It's Jeff's employees job to feed themselves and their families. They could do that if they cared about their job and their employer and had a good attitude. Why it is on their employer to care more about their families than they do?
Amazon.com Inc Hourly Pay | PayScale
"Amazon.com Inc pays its employees an average of $16.55 an hour. Hourly pay at Amazon.com Inc ranges from an average of $12.36 to $29.01 an hour. Amazon.com Inc employees with the job title Technical Recruiter make the most with an average hourly rate of $32.59, while employees with the title Security Officer make the least with an average hourly rate of $12.00."
If Jeff didn't exist, there would be 800,000 fewer employees. How much better off will people be, if their income drops from "$13 to $30 /hour" to say.... zero?
Because honestly, Jeff could just shut Amazon down, and go live on an island somewhere.
Then he won't be paying people $13 to $30 an hour, and I guess based on your complain, he wouldn't be greedy then.... right?
It is society's responsibility to ensure every worker receives a living wageIs it my responsibility to pay your bills? Or is it your responsibility?
How would Greedy Jeff accomplish that without exploiting someone else's labor?You realize, that Greedy Jeff, could if he wanted to, close Amazon down, take all his money and move to island somewhere, and never hire another person for the rest of his life, and live in luxury until he dies.
Your sentiments are those of a gangster:That's not what we say. That's fact. Your existence, doesn't mean I owe you some of my labor.
Moreover, the claim that we owe each other, doesn't work.
It is society's responsibility to ensure every worker receives a living wageIs it my responsibility to pay your bills? Or is it your responsibility?
Capitalism ensures those who "own" the means of production decide what gets produced, where the production takes place, and how any surplus is divided.
Since owners are a small percentage of the total number of workers who produce ALL value, any surplus is often distributed in ways that reward those who do no work (Apple shareholders) over those being exploited to produce iPhones, for example.
Living wage - Wikipedia
"In the United Kingdom and New Zealand, advocates define a living wage to mean that a person working 40 hours a week, with no additional income, should be able to afford the basics for a modest but decent life, such as, food, shelter, utilities, transport, health care, and child care."
It is society's responsibility to ensure every worker receives a living wageIs it my responsibility to pay your bills? Or is it your responsibility?
Capitalism ensures those who "own" the means of production decide what gets produced, where the production takes place, and how any surplus is divided.
Since owners are a small percentage of the total number of workers who produce ALL value, any surplus is often distributed in ways that reward those who do no work (Apple shareholders) over those being exploited to produce iPhones, for example.
Living wage - Wikipedia
"In the United Kingdom and New Zealand, advocates define a living wage to mean that a person working 40 hours a week, with no additional income, should be able to afford the basics for a modest but decent life, such as, food, shelter, utilities, transport, health care, and child care."
Your sentiments are those of a gangster:That's not what we say. That's fact. Your existence, doesn't mean I owe you some of my labor.
Moreover, the claim that we owe each other, doesn't work.
Capitalism is Organized Crime
"Here’s a more philosophical conception of a criminal moral philosophy from Norman Bucklew, serving a life-sentence for murder and armed robbery in Leavenworth:
"'I'm a thief. I don't think robbing a bank is wrong. If I want to take the money in a bank, then I'm going to take it, and if you catch me and put me in prison, I'm not going to sniffle about being in the pen. But don't try to tell me what I did was wrong…'"
When human beings agree to accept the benefits that come from exchanging some small part of their individual freedom for the security that comes from living in a society, they are acknowledging a responsibility to provide for the general welfare of that collective.