We live in a capitalist dystopia

[Pocket]

Counterpoint: Oh boo hoo the cops had to pay for something they need to do their jobs instead of being able to exploit people for free stuff for a change. A whole hundred fifty even, like that could have bought a whole half a gun, maybe.

It would be different if VW was refusing to even accept payment from them and insisting it come from the owners, or something.

 

[NovaSaber]

The issue isn't that the cops had to pay; it's that VW had to receive payment before doing it.

 

[Plutoniumboss]

My problem with it, is there was a kid in the car. If it was just the car? It'd be helpful, but it's a non-emergency. When you have a car stolen with a child in it, that is a whole different situation.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Corporations don't see people, only dollar signs.

 

[Pocket]

The issue isn't that the cops had to pay; it's that VW had to receive payment before doing it.

Well, would you trust an IOU from the cops?

 

[wonko the sane?]

From: Police
To: Minorities
I.O.U One box of ammo, each.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

One hundred years ago, there was no doubt that science was the reason for the advances of the previous century.

Today, the propagandists of capitalism have taken the credit away from science and given it to ... capitalism. Of course. They say capitalism, not science, is the reason we live so much better than our forebears of 300 years ago.

Let them talk long enough, and they'll try to convince you that everything good in this world came from capitalism. Capitalism has become a religion.

 

[Patch]

Source: https://yarn.pranshum.com/banks

Fun.

 

[Pocket]

I say let the whole house of cards come crashing down. Those of us at the bottom already have nothing to lose.

 

[Paladin]

In case you needed MORE proof that "Woke" was a meaningless buzzword for rightwingers.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634932203741216775

 

[Plutoniumboss]

"Surely it couldn't be that our monetary system is a precarious house of cards, it must be that the bank that failed is Guilty Of Wrongthink!"

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

An awful lot of people seem to have fallen for the techbro line of "we have to bail out SVB or else the entire international banking system will collapse". It was a specialist bank with a really specific focus and a particular set of well-heeled clientele. It wasn't a goddamned linchpin for the entire financial system.

People think that you can't require health-care companies to be non-profit, or else you'd be consigning health-care workers to poverty.

But that's simply not true: "non-profit" does not mean you can't pay your employees well. You could pay your CEO $10 million per year and still be a non-profit. You can pay your employees well above industry average and still be a non-profit. You can even sponsor music festivals or fill your headquarters with expensive art installations and still be a non-profit.

The only thing you can't do as a non-profit is take the company's earnings and distribute them to your Wall Street shareholders.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I hugging knew it.

A mystery permeates the job market: You apply for a job and hear nothing, but the ad stays online for months. If you inquire, the company tells you it isn’t really hiring.

Not all job ads are attached to actual jobs, it turns out. The labor market remains robust, with 10.8 million job openings in January, according to the Labor Department. At the same time, companies are feeling budgetary strains and some are pulling back on hiring. Though businesses are keeping job postings up, many roles aren’t being filled, recruiters say.

Hiring managers acknowledge as much. In a survey of more than 1,000 hiring managers last summer, 27% reported having job postings up for more than four months. Among those who said they advertised job postings that they weren’t actively trying to fill, close to half said they kept the ads up to give the impression the company was growing, according to Clarify Capital, a small-business-loan provider behind the study. One-third of the managers who said they advertised jobs they weren’t trying to fill said they kept the listings up to placate overworked employees.

Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake

In an uncertain economy, companies post ads for jobs that they might not really be trying to fill.

www.wsj.com

It's time to start regulating this jive like we regulate contests.

 

[Pocket]

How 'bout we just regulate capitalism clear the hell out of existence instead.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It happened to me again this week. I applied. I even got through a phone interview. It seemed to go well. I had a date for an in person interview. They said they'd call me to set a time. They ghosted. No call. No email. I called the person who did the phone interview. Number unavailable. So I called the main office number. The number picks up but immediately hangs up. It's like the entire business doesn't exist.

I'm too tired to be angry. I just want to understand. What's the scam? What do they get out of it?

 

[Ironbite4]

Tax credits

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

The libertarian theory of corporations doing good things to please "the market" contains a critical oversight: it neglects to mention that corporations must please TWO separate markets at the same time.

These two markets are the consumer market and the stock market, and those two markets do NOT want the same thing. It is a glaringly obvious flaw in libertarian market theory which nobody ever mentions.

If you listen to libertarians describe how corporations compete according to free-market theory, you would never even know the stock market exists. But corporate CEOs certainly know it exists, and its wishes dominate their every move, especially when most of their pay comes in the form of stock options.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Republicans say "get a real job" whenever minimum-wage service industry workers complain about their working conditions, but when some whiny right-wing celebrity complains that their contract requires them to obey certain stipulations like ... oh, I dunno, not publicly insulting or embarrassing their employer by acting like a complete asshole, Republicans suddenly become worker rights advocates.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653610779608772608

 

[NovaSaber]

10-year-old children were found working at Louisville McDonald's until 2 a.m.

Two 10-year-old children were found working at a Louisville McDonald's restaurant — sometimes until 2 a.m. — the US Department of Labor said Tuesday.

www.cp24.com

The revelation was part of an investigation into the child labor law violations in the Southeast. The agency also found three franchisees that own more than 60 McDonald's locations in Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, "employed 305 children to work more than the legally permitted hours and perform tasks prohibited by law for young workers," the Labor Department said in a statement.

"Investigators from the department's Wage and Hour Division found two 10-year-old workers at a Louisville McDonald's restaurant among many violations of federal labor laws committed by three Kentucky McDonald's franchise operators," the release said. "Investigators also determined two 10-year-old children were employed -- but not paid -- and sometimes worked as late as 2 a.m."