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SixIsNotANumber t1_iz0njrq wrote

Reply to comment by AdFresh3918 in Homelessness charity staff start strike, after low pay risks homelessness by db_2_k

Yay capitalism!
Where you can be employed 40 hours a week and still have to choose between food & shelter because you can't afford both.

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jayfeather31 t1_iz0qq2q wrote

That's not exactly good for long-term stability, and it puts the system at one good economic downturn from collapse.

We have plenty of historical precedence for this too, and next year might be a repeat of 1929 or 2008.

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Jampine t1_iz283zz wrote

Yeah, but who cares about long term, when we can make the magic bar bigger for this quarter than the last!

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the_catshark t1_iz2nctw wrote

Thars okay though, its been really good for the shareholders these past few quarters!

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Ma3vis t1_iz22rm4 wrote

Might as well refer to as corporate feudalism at that point. I guess this is what the late stage of capitalism is now?

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Almainyny t1_iz2ao5j wrote

Goddamn. The game "Liberal Crime Squad" was supposed to be satire damn it, we're not supposed to have literal CEO Castles!

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ArcticISAF t1_iz35vf5 wrote

Yeah but what about my AA gun for my safehouse home?

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Almainyny t1_iz36f0i wrote

You know what, I might actually be cool with having “Flag Murder” on my otherwise pristine rap sheet.

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coh_phd_who t1_iz3uqba wrote

I always said that if I was ever president I would issue an executive order that LCS had to be installed on all government computers (obvious exceptions) to remind every government worker what they were fighting/working for.

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Cetun t1_iz3af9c wrote

>According to Bellemare, in the age of TCF, contra Marx, workers can be paid below subsistence levels, wherefore, they must now work a multiplicity of jobs and more hours in order to make ends meet.

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BlooperHero t1_iz3tgod wrote

When I used to score standardized tests, there was a type of test paper we referred to as "The Attack of The Saurus." It referred to students who were trying to use a lot of big words, but didn't quite have them mastered.

Just thought I'd mention it. No reason.

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