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People Are Mocking The Dystopian Capitalism We’re Living In, And Here Are 35 Of Their Spot-On Posts
Anyone has the ability to flourish if they work hard enough for it, right? Regardless of where they come from or what family they are born into, if people just pick themselves up by their bootstraps — the sky is the limit. Or at least that’s what they tell us. Because while capitalism has fuelled economic growth and increased our standard of living, people are hesitant to back a system that now seems to offer little other than uncertainty and crisis.
So it’s no surprise that so many are dissatisfied with how unjust the system we’re living in actually is. And two corners on the internet capture these feelings, the 'Capitalism In Decay' subreddit and the capitalism criticizing page on Facebook. People over there are holding up a mirror to society and showing off examples of how upside-down our world can seem, one image at a time.
We’ve gone through these two communities and handpicked a selection of accurate and insightful posts that might shake you up, make you laugh and cry at the same time, or at least give a few thought-provoking ideas to consider. So continue scrolling and share your thoughts with us in the comments! And if you’re interested in even more anti-capitalist content, be sure to check out our previous publication right here.
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#1
Won’t Someone Think About Those Poor Billionaires
MissPrideGirl 3 years ago
And this is why we should tax the rich. All that money should go to people who actually need it. Not people who waste their money sending dildo-shaped rockets into space.
JMC5003 3 years ago
We used to tax the rich in the US and our economy boomed! That all changed when the trickle down theory was introduced - what a load of rubbish that is. Everyone knows it doesn't work, but the powers that be keep screaming about how taking money from the wealthy will somehow hurt the poor. SMH. So much b******t.
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Jessica Julian 3 years ago
Because Conservatives, backed by those billionaires, have successfully conned those that vote for them, into believing that...the rest of us, though not as loud and obnoxious, are quite keen to tax the wealthy, just like in the 1950's, when the highest tax bracket was 90%.
Ray McArdle 3 years ago
This is the system you get when you vote for your right to bear arms. You're really voting to be exploited.
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#2
This Country Really Hates Poor People
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
It is indeed beyond effed up - it's downright EVIL! What's worse is forcing people to give birth to babies they can't be reasonably expected to care for. Then you penalize them for being unable to care for their children, and dump the kids into the jungle of so-called foster care.
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Psycho Cat 3 years ago
They are threatening to take children away from their families, because they have no money, but they're willing to give them into foster care, where foster parents get monetary compensation for each child their foster. MAYBE, just MAYBE - give that money to the parents and let the kids stay with them if everything else is okay.
ZombieGirl 3 years ago
omg...I never thought of it that way! Thank you for that!
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ctsbathory 3 years ago
Proof that in the US an unborn child is more important than a living breathing child.
Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
It's clear to me that America is now owned by corporations and other entities that only see human beings as things to extract money from, like chickens or cows.
Nameless_User 3 years ago (edited)
Land of the free! Yeah... sure... whatever helps you sleep at night.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
It's a country that really hates poor people and does its best to keep them poor too.
#3
Pain Is Currency
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Also public healthcare doesn’t “destroy” the health insurance industry; it just creates competition for it…which is supposed to be a characteristic of a free market?
Bob a job 3 years ago
Exactly, the UK has private healthcare options alongside the NHS and people avail of it.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
That depends on who is inflicting and who is suffering according to the politicians getting their coffers filled from kick-backs and "campaign donations".
dude with fat japanese in pp 3 years ago
i'm frech we got publuc healthcare and its cool if i havent bgot that i would be probably dead
Enothor 3 years ago
The fun part of if all of these posts is that we realize it’s happening, they understand we realize it’s happening, yet we all know there’s nothing we can do about it. Complacency has bred the revolution out of us. Just think how much we sacrifice for the idea of security. Yeah…fun
Anne McKinney 3 years ago
Funny as countries with all those things also still have a weapons, healthcare and energy industries. Thus proving the American LIE!!
Nameless_User 3 years ago (edited)
We will replace them with a more sustainable industries... it's time to let our old ways go.
As Dr. Ron Roberts, a chartered psychologist, lecturer at Kingston University, and author of several books such as Mental Health in Crisis and Psychology and Capitalism: The Manipulation of Mind, pointed out, capitalism is about creating endless wants and needs.
"[It is about] creating the idea that there is something inherently deficient in us — and that when we cannot cope, it is because of individual weakness, defect or fragility, rather than the exploitative nature of the system," the psychologist told Bored Panda. "This is reflected in the mental health system which identifies any difficulties in coping as illness or disorder. No matter how inhuman the system, we are supposed to manage without problems."
#4
True Words
RedCorvette 3 years ago
Well actually racism, xenophobia and guns are all they need to exist. These ‘patriots’ don’t care about the country going to s**t as long as they have their guns and hatred.
Doggo 3 years ago
yOuRe In AmErIcA sPeAk EnGlIsH. Guns, racism, and hatred are the only things going strong in this country
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K. Anderson 3 years ago
Having debt is a way to control people thus taking their freedom. They can’t quit a terrible job as they have to pay bills
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Outsourcing to offshore is one of the biggest problems I think. Companies are sending millions every month to foreign country and most of that money will never return. Think about it. Take just technical support. Those companies are paying $2-4000 per technician every month. Some teams are small, some are big, but I personally know about a hundred of people that work as tech support for US. In many cases I know just a one or two people from the whole team, some of them are 5 people, but one was something like 70 people. Imagine that we have a thousand skilled tech guys. Each of them brings in $3000 every month. I know, 40 millions in a year is not much, but how much will go back? We pay 10 bucks for Netflix, another 20 bucks for other services or games and the rest stays here. And you get nothing of value back, no produce, no goods, nothing. And it is not much better when we talk about real produce, because a lot will just end in landfills.
Random Anon 3 years ago
Hey just a little bit more, I'll be the 1% and no longer have to swim in this muck with you lot. So they thought lol.
stella rossa 3 years ago
Capitalism teaches you that socialism takes your freedom. How convenient for the rich people!!! Capitalism lets you free to have ... nothing.
#5
It’s Too Expensive, There’s Absolutely No Way It Can Work... /S
Ivana Bašić 3 years ago
Sweetie, are you counting the US as a developed country? Because other than speaking English and having smartphones, it has all the characteristics of a third world one.
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
I’ve seen people in third world countries getting really offended by that because many third world countries do try to take care of their people.
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Living Example 3 years ago
I don't mean to be a smartass, but how many of you know the definition of a third world country? Without looking it up.
Stephen Kovacsics 3 years ago
After WWII, it's a country that wasn't part of either US/Euro influence (First World) or Soviet Influence (Second World).
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A developed nation...boy, have we fooled the world...and ourselves...
Peign Gaming 3 years ago
The US could have UHC if Dems didn't need all their social projects and the GOP didn't need their military spending.
Prius Owner 3 years ago
No, what is vigorously opposing UHC in the US are the health insurance industry (recall the strong ad campaign early in Bill Clinton's first term) but especially the pharmaceutical industry. The US pays far more than the rest of the world and gets the same drugs. The lawyers making money in the malpractice industry (defense and plaintiff) also have a strong lobby, but are still dwarfed by the first two.
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Strahd Ivarius 3 years ago
Don't worry, all countries will go USA's way, because it may be good for the stock market...
Mark Faby 3 years ago
And the people of those countries that can afford private care pay for it; why is that? England's NHS is on the verge of collapsing and barely survives. Canadians who can afford it come to the U.S. for better and faster care.
JB 3 years ago
How about because if you can afford better, faster healthcare why wouldn’t you? It’s your health for Pete’s sake. The NHS is struggling because it was designed in 1948 to cover the entire population regardless of income but in the face of significantly mis-projecting population growth and an aging citizenry there simply isn’t enough money coming in in the form of taxes anymore. Ref your comment about Canadians, I refer you back to my first point.
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Louder For The Ceos At The Top
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Orrrr we need a better economy AND drugs that don’t cause fatigue for those of us whose mental health issues were caused by things that won’t go away in a non-capitalist society.
Doggo 3 years ago
Or anti-depressants that don’t have “Depression and Suicidal Thoughts” as a side-effect🤦. Tbh this economy probably will NEVER be fixed.
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AMH 3 years ago
Or can't afford the copays for depression drugs and dr visits. My specialist copay is $75. I can't even afford to pay to visit a therapist to whine about it.
Lynne Paquette 3 years ago
i can't afford a therapist either and my mental has been tanked the past 3 years.
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Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
I get what you're saying and I agree, those factors make things worse, but clinical depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain that has to be treated with medication and I wish there would be better options available.
KindaSketchy 3 years ago
And there's no hope. People aren't stupid, they know there's no help coming from either the Democrats or the Republicans. Even Obama bailed out Wall Street, not Main Street
Emily Ducat 3 years ago
According to the Wikipedia Minimum wage in the United States page suicide section... Researchers found in 2019 that, "Between 1990 and 2015, raising the minimum wage by $1 in each state might have saved more than 27,000 lives, according to a report published this week in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. An increase of $2 in each state's minimum wage could have prevented more than 57,000 suicides.
Lynne Paquette 3 years ago
Exactly. Swallowing a pill does not put food in my fridge or pay the 820 dollars for my tiny bachelor apartment. Prices skyrocketed so bad.
Random Anon 3 years ago
Yeah but then that will cut into the profit margin of big pharma. We cannot have that now, can we? No, we can't.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
America needs to get away from the cowboy culture of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and become a more compassionate nation. The rich and powerful will never give up their power unless we take it from them.
In theory, capitalism as a system may sound simple. It is rewarding effort, growth, and innovation, all while fueling the economic growth of human civilization. This system encourages the free market and provides opportunities for everyone willing to put in the work. But as great as it sounds on paper, the reality is much more complicated than that.
Capitalism has a bad reputation for causing inequality and alienation. Many workers see it as corrupt, unethical, uncaring, and often in line with what’s in the minds of the people in power. The capitalist society is maximizing profits like there’s no tomorrow, and it’s beginning to look like it’s going too far. After all, things have been getting pretty dystopian, from overworked employees that are having enough of being exploited to the middle class shrinking at alarming rates, and to the soaring inflation that makes it feel almost impossible to afford to be a person anymore.
#7
Murica. The End
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
My partner just had surgery yesterday to remove a cancerous tumour from his tongue. From the 1st GP appointment to today, it has been around 8 weeks, with MRI's and whatnot between. He's 45, had cancer twice and will be able to go on with his life as he should be...cannot begin to describe my gratitude for the NHS right now. Oh, and we've been paying into this system our whole lives. Those of you who think universal healthcare is something to be sneered at are dead wrong.
Lucy B 3 years ago
The NHS is a fantastic thing. I hope your husband is doing well
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Mora Chilis 3 years ago
I am challenging this. More to this story. Insurance does not "run out". You can cap, but must be offered other coverage or options. Nope.
Bedlamite 3 years ago
This makes zero sense to me. Just because the insurance ran out doesn't mean give up. Many hospitals offer financial aid, there's medical assistance from the government. Hell, go into debt and then claim bankruptcy.
Sandra Givens 3 years ago
This in fact is what happened with my late brother. He received intensive care for several months that was paid though an assistance program at the hospital. Never got a bill because they knew he could not pay, yet he got stellar care from everyone. Its not ideal for sure, but there are programs out there that can help many.
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Otto Maddoxx 3 years ago (edited)
1992 I was 22, and had never had anything but elementary school emergency insurance in my whole life. I had seizures. My brother suggested I get insurance. So I called. They told me that I couldn't get insurance because I had a pre-existing condition. So, I spent the next four years untreated, traveling, going to school, going to work... I mean, what else was I supposed to do? I was 22. I have a note I wrote at the time in my journal. "Insurance problem- still the same"
#8
Remember The Panama Papers
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
This is an insult to Daphne Caruana Galizia‘s memory. A lot of countries did tighten their regulations (including the then right-wing government of my country) and other journalists are working to finish what she started.
BadCat 3 years ago
One of them is a youtuber giving financial "advice" and motivation. She has openly admitted that out of her millions, properties she owns in multiple countries, for-profit citizenships, companies and all that, she's found so many loopholes in every country she's makes money out of she only pays $100 in taxes. I pay double the taxes than that in month's pay making just above min wage. I started watching her because I thought she would have some good suggestions/answers on how to start making more money. All I got is that you still need tons of money and connections, and a skill rich people find valuable enough to invest big money into you.
socalledracing 3 years ago
Someone who's stealing and giving advices about stealing is also stealing from those who are stupid enough to beg for these kinda advices, that's shocking 😮
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Norah Reilly 3 years ago
You mean like all the other documents that focus the blame squarely on the shoulders of the haves.
Chris Maycock 3 years ago
It is NOT a "conspiracy" at all it is just very rich people ruling over apatheticallygullible workers
#9
Time Is A Commodity
Random Anon 3 years ago
No one will listen unfortunately. I've given up lol. I'm not saying not buying that $1k phone is going to let you own a house. But what is it that $1k phone able to do that your current phone can't? It usually end up with me being "stingy", "tacky", "boring", "uncool" or any derivative of. Well if being relatively debt free is uncool, I'm okay with being this shabby really.
Doggo 3 years ago
Omg Heather. My phone is so much better than yours because that’s what the ad said
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Zack Podany 3 years ago
AND it has made us want that life. I hear about countries like France and their workday and I think to myself "I could never do that little work!"
Bruce Ferrell 3 years ago
Was a time, outside the memory of most alive, that we worked 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. Unions fixed that. The we got "gold fever". "I can do better on my own, I don't need a union. they take my money." "I'll get rich on tech! It's the golden land"
KindaSketchy 3 years ago
I love the people who argue against unions because a small percentage of less than ideal workers might have more job protections than you think are acceptable. Yet without a union, an employer can get rid of anyone for any reason.
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago
The only reason this one isn't at the top is because it's long enough to not be punchy
AnyOtherName 3 years ago
This seems way to organised. I feel like stuff is just s**t because humans are fundamentally chaotic and flawed so through sheer incompetence and greediness this situation has happened
What we see now often gets labeled as late-stage capitalism, a popular catch-all phrase that refers to the inequalities and injustices of the contemporary economy. As Kimberly Amadeo, the president of World Money Watch explained, it highlights the unrealistic views of the wealthiest 1% and describes how the middle class is largely unaware of the struggles of the poor. "It's the sense that monopolies, and the oligarchs that run them, have rigged the system in their favor," she wrote. "Many feel that capitalism's winners may even favor inequality. With it, they have fewer competitive threats. They 'rig the system' by creating barriers to entry."
This phrase expresses people’s frustrations with the modern capitalist society, something that has been years in the making. In the hunt for never-ending profit, capitalism as a whole has disappointed people and even started failing them. Many are questioning our world and why it allows a select few to thrive while the rest of society has a hard time trying to make ends meet.
#10
Only The Rich Can Be So Brave /S
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
I can't afford to keep my car, but I can afford the cancellation fee for my insurance o.o
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Yeah, we recently had a someone over to give us a quote for removing mold in our flat. That misogynistic a**hole, after ignoring me and only talking to my husband, basically made it known that he thinks we are at fault for being too many people in a too small flat - that's my husband, me, my stepdaughter on weekends, twin toddlers and a cat on 78sqm. Like, b*tthead, we didn't ask your opinion, we just want the mold gone! And if we could AFFORD to have more space, don't you think we'd have it by now? Made me feel like we should "know our place" and move to the "ghetto" where we belong... Not like we planned on having twins or anything...
Jeff Jacobson 3 years ago
Like ppl telling me to move out of the usa if I don't like it. Lmao I can't even save money to have a backup plan bc of the cost of everything. Beleive me I want out.
Bobby 3 years ago
Best thing that came from covid is minimum wage employees learned that not working didn't change their lifestyle in any appreciable way. Life might have still sucked, but the stress of working a job that paid just enough to keep working was gone. At least of the ones I know that went through it
Layna Sadler 3 years ago
This woman is a bona fide saint. Check out her youtube channel 'the financial diet'
#11
Context Of Agenda!
Prius Owner 3 years ago
And who vote against their own economic interests.
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Julie C Rose 3 years ago
It’s easy to imagine: the billionaires can afford to put out a shitload of propaganda.
KindaSketchy 3 years ago
Especially when they own and/or are supported by the major media outlets. Yes, let's have yet another interview with some billionaire to tell us why capitalism is the best and nothing should change.
Load More Replies... kjorn 3 years ago
saving the planet... the best chance it's with technology. invest in technologies!!
Peign Gaming 3 years ago
If covid did its jobs right, the planet would have been saved.
Load More Replies... Random Anon 3 years ago
But I am almost a billionaire and if the rules changed, that will not happen! The people that think this way, need a reality check.
user4517 3 years ago
Maybe you should take note that those that are pushing these "planet saving" events are also making a ton of money in the process. Check out the $300m that Al Gore made on climate change. I don't think these people are interested in saving the planet, so what is their agenda...
Paul Werner 3 years ago
Yeah and they're responsible for 70%of the pollution but we better all get electric cars
#12
It's Ok To Hate This Dominant Economic State Of The World
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
It's because in America your value is equated with your ability to produce. If you are seen as not being able to produce much of anything to contribute to society at large, then your life doesn't have value. Banks = loans, farmers = food, billionaires = jobs. The sick? vets? children? elderly? Very low production value. No reason to invest in them. It's f****d up.
Random Anon 3 years ago
It's the aristocrats' divine mandate to make sure they bleed the most vulnerable dry so that society do not have to deal with them. And then one day, the people agreeing to this drivel realized they are part of society, the peasants and the ones actually bleeding.
user4517 3 years ago
The US Government including health care currently provides your list. We're close to trillions being paid by the government in this regard. I agree we are seeing a huge allocation of money going to friends of the government. Given that Liberal Democrats are receiving most of it at this point makes me wonder why you think Democrat Socialism would work any better. That's what you have today.
Bee she/her 3 years ago
How messed up is this world? Much of my community relies on the goodness of the community. My church is working really hard to feed veterans, homeless people, people in the hospital (all through local charities). We also send supplies and support to kids at a nearby elementary school and invite them to play games and eat food. We provide ESL and tutoring. We do so much and sacrifice things like repairs for our building or more frequent and far reaching mission trips because the government is doing so little to help these people who NEED the help.
According to Denise Stanley, a professor of economics at California State University-Fullerton, capitalism may have lifted millions of people out of absolute poverty, but inequality can be corrosive within a society. "Absolute poverty is basically folks are able to get… $4 per day per person. It’s a threshold measure," she explained.
The economy is growing, but income inequality can make people feel insecure as their relative status in the economy declines. Behavioral economists have shown that "our status compared to other people, our happiness, is derived more by relative measures and distribution than by absolute measures. If that’s true then capitalism has a problem," Stanley said.
#13
Never Equate The Two
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
As someone who hangs out in lefty spaces, left wing rage is often misdirected at people who make minor mistakes or write a fanfic that someone doesn’t like, because that’s easier and more cathartic than any real activism.
Charles Barrow 3 years ago
But on reflection your bad example is cyber bullying Vs what's in the the article a murder cult that worships whiteness are not really the same thing
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New Everywhere 3 years ago
Left-wing, right-wing, both on the same bird. And said bird is flying us everyday citizens (yes all of us) into a brick wall!!
Steve Jones 3 years ago
Just as a FYI the KKK was created to wage war against anti slavery right wing republicans so no the right wing did not create the KKK
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Correction. *Far* right rage gave you the KKK. *Far* left gave you Antifa. Right wing gave you the Roaring Twenties. Left wing gave you the New Deal.
Stamuse Erenest 3 years ago
not sure I agree, left-wing rage burned innocent people's property, destroyed small businesses, and caused an increase in cop killing. I will never support that and it is never right to destroy people's lives and property because you are angry. The crazy 10% of each side should be outcasts and hopefully in jail.
Melissa 3 years ago
Does the Insurrection sound familiar? It wasn't left wing people killing cops and destroying property.
Load More Replies... Sasha Grojean 3 years ago
Not sure what planet this person is living on, but left-wing rage (in terms of extremism) has brought attacks, bombs, repression of opposition and plenty of violence. Let's not forget the fact that violence and terrorist acts come from BOTH extremes. Don't compare the dangerous extremism of one with the union strikes leading to effective social change of the other - if you're gonna compare, compare extremism to actual extremism.
D 3 years ago (edited)
This isn't actually true. Henry Ford created "the weekend" because he realized that if companies were going to make a profit customers needed to buy things and in order to buy things they needed free time to do that. Ford said: "Leisure is an indispensable ingredient in a growing consumer market because working people need to have enough free time to find uses for consumer products, including automobiles." So he more than doubled the daily wage of his employees and gave them 2 days off. Not only did he make more money by reducing turnover and the cost of hiring and training new people, the wage increase gave the employees more money to buy automobiles, namely Ford automobiles.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
right-wing rage gave us Donald trump and Bolsonaro and Duterte, etc and all the people who exult them (their cult members). right-wing rage just overturned Roe v. Wade in America. Right wing rage would like to turn America into Margaret Atwood's Gilead (Handmaid's Tale). But we, on the left, won't let the right turn back the times on us. we are ready to fight.
Bobby 3 years ago
My very right uncle doesn't understand how i can say I'm liberal and still disagree with our be leary of some things they propose. It's because things suck and need to change. The right seems to just be fighting for the status quo and the left seems to want change. If nothing changes, then nothing gets better. Maybe they make a bad decision, but at least they are trying
#14
Capitalism Kills
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
This enrages me...whatever happened to that dreadful Martin...Shkreli, is it?
Asher Tye 3 years ago
He was arrested when it came to light that he was stealing from other billionaires. But apparently they were cool with him jacking up prices.
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Chris Yuen 3 years ago
Shrekli price increase was for 13.50 usd to 750 usd. That is a 5555% price increase. 200 is peanuts
Prius Owner 3 years ago
The percentage increase in the cost of insulin since 1921 is far more than 200%, even adjusted for inflation.
Carla Beck 3 years ago
Insulin was discovered and patented for $1 by a Canadian doctor at the University of Toronto. Maybe that's the difference?
Psycho Cat 3 years ago (edited)
The price for the SMA treatment is one million dollars, for one dose... I hope the guy who sells it uses all of the money he earns for his on medical bills.
Squirrelly Panda 3 years ago
Shame the scientist who discovered insulin didn't keep the patent and sell the non exclusive rights to make and market it. He could've made enough to cover expenses of administration of the patent and insulin would've been much cheaper by effectively going generic instantly
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
Sadly, I think he had an overly optimistic view of humanity; he didn't realize he needed to keep control over the patent to protect it from the modern robber-barons. He basically gave it away with the expectation that people would do the right thing and not take advantage of his selflessness.
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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
This one breaks my heart. They worked so hard to come up with a drug to save so many.
#15
Based Charlie Kirk
RP 3 years ago
Let alone the pittance that American universities pay the majority of their academic teaching staff who are also on short-term contracts
KindaSketchy 3 years ago
USC had an ad up earlier this year looking for adjunct professors with a PHD and several years of teaching experience. The salary? $0 They eventually pulled it because of the backlash.
Load More Replies... Warren Hazelton 3 years ago
Anyone seriously think Charlie Kirk gives a damn about low-wage workers at Harvard or anywhere else? He's just taking a shot at Elizabeth Warren.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
I agree 100%. Charlie Kirk has nothing valuable to say. He's another trumper.
Load More Replies... Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
Charlie is garbage. He just picks this point but supports all the other cases like this
Random Anon 3 years ago
That's how trickle economy works, you troglodyte. You get tricked into thinking a slice of that big money will ever get to you. Meanwhile, those dollars circle around the small pond of elites. And when their pockets have been sufficiently padded, the crumbs gets trickled down to the lot of you peasants.
Prius Owner 3 years ago
I know what trickles down, and it may be yellow but it ain't lemonade,
Load More Replies... Francie Traschen 3 years ago
For those of you reading this, Charlie Kirk is a right-wing activist. He supported trump in 2016 and he supports the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. He shouldn't be trusted to tell the truth.
Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
Endowments are funds set aside for a specific thing - building a new wing on a building, establishing scholarships for students who otherwise could not afford tuition, etc. An endowment is not just a bunch of money that can be used for anything. They have strict limitations on how they can be spent.
"Capitalism is inherently exploitative," Dr. Roberts told us. "What we have now is a form of capitalism in which the social constraints on its operation given by the power of organized labor are perhaps at their weakest for some considerable time. The system always seeking new expanding markets now seeks to commoditize all aspects of human behavior and feeling."
"Capitalism has always been at odds with many human values — as its overriding purpose is to produce profit, not human well-being. Treating human beings as commodities effectively turns them into things, sources of profit. As the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm remarked, it turns human life away from the enjoyment of being into seeking relationships based on possessing or 'having.'"
#16
Live To Weork
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
That proves the point of this thread, doesn't it?
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KindaSketchy 3 years ago
Our lovely government considers a minimum wage, part-time job with no benefits to be the same as a full-time job with a real salary and benefits. They're obviously not, but it helps them present a better picture of the economy than actually exists
kit kat 3 years ago
I feel terrible sadness for families unable to afford a home. I used to be one of them but got very lucky that fil gave us $50,000 which on-top of our savings made it possible. Now my home is worth double and it's only been 2.5 years. I mean no wonder there is so much homelessness
user4517 3 years ago
Divergence of money to the elite is a real problem. In the US, the controlling elite, mostly Liberal Democrats, have been redistributing funds to their Cronie Capitalists. That was done when Republicans were in charge so both parties are full of it. Check out the video on New World Order and see why leading countries eventually fail. It's not Capitalism but Cronie Capitalism which is big time in the US. Socialism has never succeeded as a government model. The US Liberal Democrats are basically pushing that now but through Cronie Capttoism, more like a fire sale as the country goes into decline.
#17
Silence Of The Lambs
Doggo 3 years ago
America didn’t want the public to see that the whole country is racist and corrupt
Load More Replies... Random Anon 3 years ago (edited)
Yup and I'm the hippy commie to call a spade a spade. Modern day capitalism is basically repackaged feudalism.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
It was these kind of statements and King's opposition to the Vietnam War that got him assassinated. F*ckin' J Edgar Hoover and the FBI ruined so many lives.
#18
Slavery Didn't End. It Evolved
Kiss Army 3 years ago
Guess it depends on the prison. The private industry program where I work, inmates get prevailing wage for the location of the job. They do pay room and board (25%) but the rest is theirs minus taxes, any court-order restitution payments and child support payments. They also are required to put a percentage into mandatory savings so that they will have a "nest egg" upon release. The only way an inmate ends up with "little to no pay" is if they have A LOT of restitution to pay for their crime or have many children (especially with multiple mothers) that they have to pay child support to and why shouldn't they have to pay for their children?
elmortero 3 years ago
To some level I can agree that prisoners work, but only to cover the costs. When it becomes an (11) billion Industry, that is unfair competition to businesses and - worse even - to the job market. All those jobs that people cannot do because there are "companies" having close to free labor.
RP 3 years ago (edited)
It's a complex thing. Yes, in many cases BUT 1) who gets actually charged is bias (class / race), 2) poverty and the culture it leads to when people are trapped in it for multiple generations can make crime feel normal to the point where kids have no other chance because they are caught up in gang structures from the time they're born and cannot leave 3) Just because someone broke the law, it does not give us the right to profit off them. Prisons should be the last point of order in society. Once they become profitable, there is a motivation to want people to commit more crime because then you get free labour. The best way to keep the crime rate up is to make the population poor.... and so we get modern America
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Bruce Ferrell 3 years ago
And THAT'S just in the US. Look overseas and'll you see FAR more overt versions of it.
Sorcha Dugan-Wolf 3 years ago
And they don't want/offer rehabilitation they count on recidivism in order to keep the cells full and make their pockets fuller...
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
Anyone interested in a better understanding of the Prison Industrial Complex, read Angela Davis.
Financial expert Sam Dogen told us in an earlier interview that there is no perfect economic system. "However, capitalism is the best system we've got that advances technology, increases productivity and efficiency, and gives people a chance to improve their financial situation. Capitalism provides people the most hope to get ahead based on hard work. Therefore, I believe capitalism will remain the system going forward," he explained.
However, the system's shortcomings have become extremely apparent, especially in the past few years. "The biggest flaw to capitalism is nepotism and family dynasties," Dogen told us. "This happens when the extraordinarily wealthy hoard their wealth and provide favors to their friends and children. This helps ensure the rich get richer and the powerful stay powerful. Nepotism doesn't mean the rest of us can't get ahead as well. It just means that certain people will have a much easier time getting ahead than others."
#19
Decaying Capitalism Spares No One
ben woskje 3 years ago
That is completely and utterly f*****g monstrous.... anyone supporting a system that produces that outcome is insane.
Glen Ellyn 3 years ago
I used to work in benefits administration for a large, well-known retailer. The worst phone calls I ever had to make were when medical coverage was denied for babies (and their medical bills) who died very soon after birth. The poor grieving parents didn't realize they had to add the baby to their insurance within 30 days of birth in order to cover those bills. It was horrible to have to tell them this, but it's some law having to do with IRS rules. Thankfully, I had very few such calls back then.
SPQRBob 3 years ago (edited)
Could they not enroll them after the fact but still within the 30 days? Oh, God! I was writing more about my question when I realized that these parents never enrolled during that 30 days because who would think to put their now-deceased newborn onto their health coverage plan within some 30-day window that doesn't seem to even matter anymore. Sadness! This seems to me to be something a hospital should be explaining very thoroughly to the grieving parents out of simple human decency.
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Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
So sorry for your loss, and the additional pain that this must have caused.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
Too bad Bernie can't get elected in America. He has the right (left) ideas but when you call yourself a Democratic Socialist, forget-about-it.
#20
But We Are Getting Better Every Day Apparently!
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
They're just laughing at us all. But you know, the ordinary folk aren't supposed to know how much the overlords fear them...
Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
I like what you said. I'll keep that in mind when I push for change at my workplace.
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Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Yep ! It’s true but they have the money to pay it !
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K. Anderson 3 years ago
Took out student loans in late 90s as I was going to school in NYC & using some to live off of. I used to think it was a lot until I realized that it was 1/4 of what people started taking out in last 15 years or the same amount as someone who lived at home & went to a local college. I felt sad to hear this person paid that much to get no experience out of it
#21
Can We Change This Death March System?
Katie Andrews 3 years ago
The last four years I taught I brought a bag of food to school every day. This was at a very tony high school, in an upper middle class part of Los Angeles. Every day, I'd go home with no food left over. Partly they're kids; they're hungry all the time. But everyone knew, go to room 113, Andrews will feed you. Administrators, fellow teachers, students, staff, all welcome. I got to retire three years early, but that part of work I still miss.
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
The Qpublikans will fight to the death to make sure a fetus makes it out the birth canal, but after that, they don't give a damn about the actual human child at all.
Rayvyn 3 years ago
my high school gave out bagged meals for the kids to take home with them. I took one once, because they wanted the kids to take them, because my high school is full of little sh*ts who deny that they need help out of pride. it wasnt even very good, but its a hell of a lot better than letting kids starve
Dr. Roberts added that when it comes to pointing out capitalism’s weaknesses, the list can get disturbingly long: "The idea of perpetual growth, individualism, the fundamentally amoral nature of the economic system…" However, it isn’t helpful to see things in terms of binary opposites, the psychologist argued. "The systems in which we live need to change and are doing — but they need to be pushed in a more pro-human, pro-environmental direction."
#22
Based Shaun
Indosidius 3 years ago
Somewhere in the 1600, a minister or something of the Netherlands was killed and eaten by the disgruntled populace. Just saying, we got options. And Aerosmith sang "eat the rich..."
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#23
I See A Pattern
Jiska Veldhuizen 3 years ago
I will never understand how a healthcare insurance is tied to having a job, wouldn't you need insurance even more when you are sick and can't work?
Ela 3 years ago
Yes. You would. Oh, but I worked 20 years in a government job that allowed you to donate your VACATION time for someone else's sick leave. And enough people were willing to do so for a colleague undergoing his second round with cancer to allow him to record enough hours on his time card to qualify for full-time benefits even though he was too sick to work at all. Which was the only way to keep his insurance to pay for his treatment. Donated vacation time got him through two bloody years, but eventually it ran out. Bankrupted his family before he died. Left a wife and three kids under fifteen, and medical debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy court. So stupid.
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Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
Thats not entirely true. In Belgium no migrants are allowed to have public healthcare if they arent working. I was kicked out of their system the next month after quiting due to health problems and forced to pay a very expensive one. In Spain if you dont work and you dont have a working spouse there are systems to get you public health but they are very difficult to get. Still better than USA but its not the utopia people believe
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
There are extremely powerful forces working to keep it this way in America. Someday we will win and all Americans will have access to decent health care.
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
Just imagine what would happen if all of those involved in the health insurance industry were retrained as doctors, nurses, midwives, radiographers, pharmacists, physiotherapists,....
Libby Tailor 3 years ago
In Hungary, if you have no job, you got "only"_life saving_ healthcare. For free. But if you pay about 20 $/month, you have all the healthcare. Children under 18 (or until they finish university) also got free healthcare. Old age pensioners also got free healthcare.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
This must correlate somehow to the high levels of workplace bullying in the U.S.
#24
Capitalism At Its Finest
Lucy B 3 years ago
Jeff Bezos owns Whole Foods. His net worth, calculated into an hourly wage is around $9m per hour (as of a 2019 online article)
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Why would you calculate his wage based on the value of his investments? His wealth is largely from Amazon stock, which is directly affected by everyone who shops Amazon.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
I thought Jeff Bezos owned Whole Foods? I'll never shop there again.
Unsure how to deal with their bottled-up feelings, thousands of people are voicing their concerns online in a bid to find ease knowing some like-minded people agree that capitalism seems to be in conflict with human values. But as Dr. Roberts noted, looking for comfort is not the answer.
"We must seek to live better lives whether they are comfortable or not and extend warmth, support and friendship to as many people as we can," he told us. "We must learn to deal with our emotional responses to the unfolding chaos and turmoil around us — not by suppressing them but by sharing them, feeling them and continuing to think about what to do while we feel them," he concluded.
#25
Because Who Needs Jobs Anyway
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago
The rich would probably want the poor to disappear from their sight and stop causing problems.
censor 3 years ago
that is exactly what they want. in cape town they even herd them away with the cops to be out of sight.
Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
We did live in the country. But our landlord's dad died during the pandemic, and long story short, they wanted to move back into our house. It actually sort of makes me sick how hard we worked on making that property nice. We left it better than we found it, always paid our rent on time, and got kicked out during a pandemic And a housing shortage. The only place we could find at all was an hour away, in the city. There ARE NO RENTAL PROPERTIES IN THE COUNTRY. Rent costs more than a mortgage. Just f*****g let renters be able to buy a house
K. Anderson 3 years ago
NYC has projects & rent control as they realize there would be no one to do low paying jobs if they didnt
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
Some counties in Florida are starting to have this problem large-scale - costs of living and housing have gone up so insanely that the service workers who essentially operate the entire economy can't afford to live there. It's happening everywhere, it's just more visible in Florida because so much of their economy runs on tourism.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
This is a huge problem in American cities. Largely due to the deinstitutionalization of mental institutions in the 70s and 80s. Someone had the brilliant idea that mentally ill people should be thrown into the community with zero support. And with income inequality growing, we are seeing more and more families living in cars/on the streets.
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
To be fair, that wasn't the initial idea. There was a two-step plan to close abusive institutions and replace them with community based services. The problem was that they did the first part, took the credit for it, and then someone noticed that the second half was going to cost actual money, to care for people who aren't considered valuable by a frighteningly large percentage of Western society, and they never funded the community services.
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Lopez, Laura 3 years ago
To be fair, move right outside the city limits. I grew up in an area like that, things were soooo much cheaper, I could pick any job I wanted or commute into the city for work. Now I live in the city and am barely scraping by
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
Key word there being 'commute.' Even 'good' public transportation networks don't get you very far in America. As someone living in the suburbs who doesn't drive, trust me on this one. I live just outside a major city, I can walk to a bus stop and a regional rail line in quite literally 5 minutes... and if I want to actually go anywhere outside of about 3 'major' destinations (local malls and the community college) I would have to ride the train into the city center and take three or four buses to get somewhere from there. If you want to live outside the city center, you're extremely limited unless you can get a reliable car and pay for the gas, and service workers are not getting paid enough to afford that much gas.
Load More Replies... Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
The answer to that question is that people already now live in sewers or their cars (luxury) and similar places while they work full time to survive. The rich and even middle class are fine with that. Some of these better of people prefer that because it makes them feel like they're "simply better".
#26
PSA: Capitalism Is Bad For Your Health
BadCat 3 years ago
Don't really get enticed with ads much. They can be interesting but just because there's something profound in the message about cats, I'm not about to buy that brand's cat food.
Fudge 3 years ago
Subconsciously they most certainly work! If ads didn't work, they would have disappeared by now. Ads are everywhere, because they f*cking work!
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Pissing Your Money Away
Sarah Jane 3 years ago
The job he's describing is a "picker". I used to do it and can confirm what he's saying.
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago (edited)
What have corporations done with country, where people from all over the world have traveled to have a better life? Amazon in Poland: - refund for washing work clothes - dinner for 1 PLN (22 cents) - 1 hour lunch break - 30-minute breakfast break - co-financed vending machines with food and drink - free transport to work - unlimited toilet breaks - 20 or 26 vacation days per year - 80% paid sick leave - Christmas bonuses - attendance bonuses. My country is not rich, the government has more and more stupid ideas, but although it is the same company, good labor law changes a lot.
Gina Babe 3 years ago
I don't work for Amazon but I get not only none of these but we accrue 3.08hr of time off every pay period. You can take off 1 day every 5 weeks accrued. That's why we go to work when we're sick.
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Megatonberry 3 years ago
I'm amused at the fact they are running out of people to hire, this is what happens when you treat workers like slaves, high turnover and people don't want to work there.
notnow 3 years ago
We refuse to buy from Amazon and anything Steve Jobs ever put his hands on. When you documentaries on this man, the sweatshops he ran are never mentioned
Load More Replies... Evan Sloane 3 years ago (edited)
Amazon idea A: use "polluted water" bottles at manager's office until conditions improve. Evil in a good way.
Francie Traschen 3 years ago
I'm so glad to see that some of the Amazon warehouses, in the US, are unionizing. Amazon has done everything they can to stop the unions but they haven't been successful everywhere.
Sharkbait1313 3 years ago
I worked there as well only lasted 3 months before I couldn't take it anymore. I quit before I even had another job lined up because it was taking a toll on my mental health.
#28
It's All Class War
Random Anon 3 years ago
In reality, the politicians with the biggest coffers can run their campaigns and shove propaganda down peoples' throats and get votes. So cynically speaking, it's just folks with common sense vs. the zombies with some gray matter short up top.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
Get politicians that can think. Do you remember Charlie Brown and his "independent repair will install Tik tok on your phone" speech? For those who do not know, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vmbDczK-78. It is amazing to see how those talks go. And yes, if you know nothing about it, you should get an expert opinion, but not expert paid by the company that it may "harm".
Load More Replies... Marla Singer 3 years ago
This meme is used backward. The first one is supposed to be the correct notion that people foolishly disavow. The second one is supposed to be the stupid idea that people inexplicably embrace.
Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
It's interesting that republicanism supports corporations before people, but poor people in rural areas vote Republican.
foofoofloofy 3 years ago
My state is the only one completely in the ultra-rich zone. Am I rich now? I better be.
Charles Barrow 3 years ago
I call b******t on this the ultra rich really don't care beyond tax breaks, stable economy they can make more money off and laws that keep them separated from the less rich, about what the happens to the rest of laws. it's the people with hateful and misinformed ideologies that's the problem and vote for people who claim they will make others lives worst.
#29
But They Take The Risks
Random Anon 3 years ago
Here's the thing. For limited liability companies, you just fold. Unless creditors can prove some shady shenanigans going on, siphoning money off to phoney vendors for example, the owners have next-to-no fall-out. You pay your accountants to make sure of that. At worst, they go bankrupt but rarely see jail time.
Untethered Universe 3 years ago
I'm probably going to end up downvoted again, but what I'm telling is the truth and the absolute truth. I'm a capitalist. I've been trying to build a company for the last 5 years. I have yet to get a single dollar in pay out of it. All my staff is paid, I have to do consulting gigs after hours to have a living wage. I already invested about 250 000 dollars of my own money into this adventure. Money I saved for 20 years before starting this. I liquidated my 401k to pay for the first employee. I could lose it all. If I make it and start making money out of this, will you socialist still hate me? If yes, why?
Vytas Navickas 3 years ago
perhaps you didn't have a good business plan or product?
Load More Replies... Julie C Rose 3 years ago
I vote for the most left wing party my country has, but this isn’t a good argument. Small business owners often take the risk of going hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars into debt. It doesn’t mean they deserve a free pass to exploit their workers and I regularly call them out when I see them whining about minimum wage increases, but I’m also getting really tired of seeing my fellow left wingers using bad logic and acting like they’re being profound.
user4517 3 years ago
you should learn the difference between Capitalists and libertarians. The latter don't give a s**t about other people. There is Capitalism that is both progressive and moral but you won't see that in most US big companies because they have become Liberal Democrat elitists.
#30
"Starvation Exists Because It Isn't Profitable To Solve"
Michael Se 3 years ago
"Is food a right?" asks a person who gets half the year as paid vacation.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
If you don't think food is a right, don't eat for a few days.
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Zack Podany 3 years ago
I'm sorry I'm still in disbelief I just read the phrase "is food [a right] as well?"
#31
Wtf
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I'd rather walk than sit on that thing, it'd be less painful! Have to work on my swimming though if I want to leave the UK
Persephone 3 years ago
If that airplane goes down, your femurs are done.... there's no swimming.
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necessary cephalopod 3 years ago
Ah yes, let's put pressure on major arteries in the thighs and muck around with air pressure.
censor 3 years ago
they just designed another layout with someone ABOVE you. https://boingboing.net/2022/06/16/new-double-decker-airplane-seats-let-you-eat-farts-for-free.html
Lola Atkinson 3 years ago
Why not just stack people on top of each other in pods like in Tokyo hotels? Or, forget the pods. Just insert a thin sheet of paper between the layers of people. It's not safe? *Evil Corporation No F*cks Given*
lakitha tolbert 3 years ago
They actually tried this style of travel during the Atlantic Slave Trade! Worked for about 200 years.
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#32
Speechless
Ranibowllama 3 years ago
Hey! Good publicity... We wont actually help people, but look we saved an elf on a shelf! That's cool, right? Right?
SPQRBob 3 years ago
CollegeHumor did a very wry video on this: https://youtu.be/tIsXEkR5OVs
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i’m gonna f*****g stab someone and steal their shinbones, my blood is boiling rn
#33
Capitalism-In-Decay-Posts
Abby da great 3 years ago
Is it limbless? No. Does it have gills? No. Does it live under water? No. But is it a fish? Yes :\
James016 3 years ago
Because adding bees to the endangered species list the act covers was too sensible?
Charles Barrow 3 years ago
It's more that the bill when first written had only fixed categories and fish was already a misc category including a bunch of land invertebrates so the court as they can't change the law did the best ruling they could.
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Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Yes. And, when you read the rationale it makes perfect sense. https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/california-endangered-species-bees-fish.html
TrickQuestion 3 years ago
This actually has a lazy cause. Insects weren't covered under a preservation law, but sea invertebrates were, hence, bee fish. They didn't want to change the law to add them.
#34
Capitalism As Religion, Walter Benjamin (1921)
Random Anon 3 years ago
Yup play into the tribal minds of most people. As long as the tribe wills it, they will jump off a cliff. This has rung true for both politics and marketing.
#35
A Landlord Contemplating To Shut Off The Water To Tenants Who Can't Pay Their Rent Due To The Quarantine
M O'Connell 3 years ago
I think this was early in the pandemic lockdown, before courts figured out how to hold remote sessions via Zoom and such.
Load More Replies... Francie Traschen 3 years ago
It was really the federal government's responsibility to get money to landlords so that they could survive through the pandemic. You can't blame landlords for wanting their rent; it's how they survive and keep up the properties (good landlords, that is). Bcs of covid many tenants couldn't pay their rents; this is where the feds need to step in.
RandomPanda 3 years ago
Since people are cruel, what happens if we shut off air supply to morons like this.
#36
Capitalism A System Of Continues Failure
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Mortgage !! Hahahaha !rich people have houses built to suit them ! They buy a house with plenty of cash and don’t move in for a year cause it’s getting remodeled ! It gets more disgusting tho when you think about taxes and insurance on 2 houses and services for those houses !
M O'Connell 3 years ago
They are referring to whatever mortgage was taken out by the owner to purchase the home they are renting.
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#37
You’re Poor Cause You’re Lazy
#38
This Is Your Brain On Capitalism
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
He has no business regarding himself as a human being of he thinks children shouldn't eat because they are poor. He'd make a great poster child for birth control.
Load More Replies... Bee she/her 3 years ago
My county did this last school year!!!!! Idk if they’re doing it again in the fall but I hope so
Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
Whoever @mfow020 is, they deserve something really bad to happen to them
#39
Because Capitalism.....
Ela 3 years ago
Supply and demand. It's not like they can say it costs too much so they will get something else. They are hostages, pay up or die.
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#41
Thank You Bezos, Really Cool!
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago
Chicago is so rich it doesn't need any more taxes, or is it just that someone got a nice bribe?
Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
That is essentially a way to avoid saying your paying below minimum wage
#42
Yikes
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
Yep. The CVS application is FULL of questions like this. I kept going because I was curious. I finally got a call from the hiring manager who made zero mention of salary (not on the website or in the application either). At the end of the interview, I asked what the range of pay was for the position - not even an exact amount - she got super squirrelly, said she was new at this location and didn't know what the pay was (as the HIRING manager), but she would definitely find out and call me back the next day. Never heard from her again.
Mohsie Supposie 3 years ago
Yes, I LOVE to provide great customer service! Bring on the Karens!!!
Julie C Rose 3 years ago
Bad argument. Plenty of customers are decent people. The problem is that that company could easily incentivise their employees to provide great service to their customers by giving the employees a large paycheck, but they’re greedy turds.
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And It’s Only Going To Get Worse
Random Anon 3 years ago
Just like the Roman empire, most of the people are slaves working for the handful of "citizens" living the American dream. That's how an empire works.
#44
An Apple A Day...
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago
Out of curiosity, how does this system work? Because the doctor should only check the patient's history, selecting the medications himself. I understood the article so that the system tells the doctor what to give to the patient, hence my question.
Aballi 3 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal
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#45
War & Pistachios
#47
How Capitalism Has Created The Highest Standard Of Living Ever Known On The Earth???
#48
Uber Deconstructed!
Colin Matthews 3 years ago
Uber as a corporate is doomed. It's a c**p model which will go belly up shortly
Atero 3 years ago
Not if they manage to get an upper hand in competition with regular transportation companies (and they are expanding in pretty much all transportation). As soon as competition is gone wild profit times will begin.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
So is a society putting a premium on the superficial, rewarding vanity and grossly enriching the greedy.
#50
“They Got Money For The Wars But Can’t Feed The Poor.” -Tupac Shakur, 1993
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
The USA in a nutshell. We can't fix our bridges and roads, boost rapid transit, improve our power grid, or pay teachers decent wages and give them the materials they need - but can we fight wars!
Jesse Hoover 3 years ago
The governments job is to fight wars and protect the country, not pay the poor to literally do nothing. I'm not saying welfare is totally wrong, there's definitely a place for it
#51
This Is Worthless! Everything Is Worthless!
Dagnirath 3 years ago
I got a pin, which kinda works because I collect them, but still!
Load More Replies... Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
I did a commercial once and got paid 600 for 3 hours of "work". If the business can make commercials then it can certainly pay its employees above starvation wages
#54
A Landlord Evicting A Paramedic In The Middle Of The Coronavirus Epidemic, Just Because He Works At The Nhs
#56
Don’t Rush Them, Give Them Time :)
Untethered Universe 3 years ago
Can you show me one country where left wing communism has worked? Not that I like libertarianism, but the cure isn't any better.
Atero 3 years ago
Ok, I get it. You don't like communism. What about mixed economy or socialism (nordic style for example)? Those have tones of "working" examples.
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Bosses Are Not Your Friend
Katarzyna Gratka 3 years ago
Truth. However, it does not always have to be this way, as not every employer wants to use an employee. It all depends on the people.
#58
Capitalism, Uhhhh, Finds A Way.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Yep, and the moon is made of green cheese, handling toads causes warts, there was a shooter on the grassy knoll, Ronald Reagan was the first choice for the lead in "Casablanca," and the typical person swallows 8 spiders every year.
#59
A Landlord Figures They Will Have To Evict Their Tenants "Like Cockroaches" During The Quarantine-Related Eviction Moratorium
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Some tenants absolutely do destroy properties, through. I'm wondering what position this landlord was actually in.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago (edited)
Same he might have been nice for a long time and waited too long! When my dad got sick we rented his place to these guys ( double wide trailer on some land) it needed work so we gave them a deal $400 a month if they do some repairs ! They came to us to live there we didn’t ask them ! They of course were fine with that deal ! After my dad died they quit paying me , got an attitude when I told them I wanted to sell after 2 years no rent ! I went to the property and they kept offering to take me in the woods and show me the property lines ! Finally they left ! The next night I got a call from the fire department the place had been burned to the ground ! Sometimes the landlords are the ones getting fu(ked! I paid all taxes during that time.
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Me When I Graduate ;)
#61
The UK Conservative Party
Nathaniel 3 years ago
No one is glorifying the CCP. Just pointing out the flawed perception that capitalism promotes innovation.
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We Should Accept Our Current Economic System Is [messed] When Even The Idea Of Us Going To War Makes The Stock Market Go Up
![We Should Accept Our Current Economic System Is [messed] When Even The Idea Of Us Going To War Makes The Stock Market Go Up](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/62b01bb075c04_wc0tus8eid941__700.jpg "We Should Accept Our Current Economic System Is [messed] When Even The Idea Of Us Going To War Makes The Stock Market Go Up")
#63
Green Imperialism
#64
The Climate Is In Crisis And Biden Is In Debt To Fossil Fuel Industries; He Won’t Save Us Like Bernie Will
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
The Democrats could have nominated a live wire, and all we got was a cold fish. Still, he's better than his predecessor.
Wintermute 3 years ago
Votes had little to do with Bernie's loss. The DNC had it planned all along. They're as corrupt as the RNC, but with slightly better PR.
Hydra (she/her) 3 years ago
So women are supposed to hold off on reproduction until climate change solves itself?
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Susie Elle 3 years ago (edited)
I gather from this and other posts that Biden has been a massive disappointment up until now? (sorry I'm behind on information regarding this)
John L 3 years ago
Not if you know his nickname..."Status quo, Joe". Unfortunately, it was either him or the world turning against Drumph.... Two party systems, suck....
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What do you think ?
notnow 3 years ago
And somehow I couldn't stop reading this to the end. I should slap myself.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
As things are going, you guys in the US need to think about either an overhaul or secession. The way I see it, the US has gotten so bloated with profit-gorging every step of the way, it looks more like an oligarchy with the same old money bags deciding who gets voted into office.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, people outside of the Us keep telling us what we need to do, but how are we supposed to actually go about doing that? Us normal folk don't have any power. Voting doesn't actually do anything because of gerrymandering and the electoral college. Hillary taught us that. We've tried protesting, but then the Supreme Court just builds a big metal fence around itself, and I can't actually think of a better metaphor for America, right now. About the only thing the American public could do at this point is take up arms, and I thought you all were against things like that
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Jeffrey Keffer 3 years ago
HEY!!!! Those ( consume) are (spend) not (consume) your (spend) sunglasses !!
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Zedrapazia 3 years ago
It might be a surprising irony, but one day you Americans will need a lot of guns and courage to overthrow this capitalism and the people feeding it, or your country will down in it
notnow 3 years ago (edited)
Every great Empire and Nation eventually falls or fails. I've known this since my 6th-grade history class. It looks like our time( USA ) is up if you ask me. I don't have kids but I do hate what we have left for the generation or probably the next 10 generations. We didn't get this way overnight and it's not going to be fixed overnight.
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Rucha Vanarase 3 years ago
That's not capitalism. Look at Scandanavia and other countries in the region. Strongly Capitalistic and yet they are working perfectly. None of these problems.
RP 3 years ago (edited)
Neo-liberalism vs. social(ist)-democracy. Captialism itself is the wrong term for most of this. The USA is f****d because of neoliberalism. Scandinavia works (much like most of Europe) because it is a social-democracy. That is, they combine aspects of socialism (like universal healthcare) with a robust democratic political structure.
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Frisinator 3 years ago
I love how a website does posts about the evils of capitalism while showing you ads. Lol.
MorgothBauglir 3 years ago
I find it strange how everyone here is having fun mocking Capitalism, the system that has caused the greatest leaps in prosperity for all of human history, while nearly Every Single Economist supports free-enterprise, mostly free-market Capitalism. Look up Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Joseph Schumpeter, Frederic Bastiat, Leon Walras, Jean-Baptiste Say, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, Carl Menger, Knut Wicksell, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Frank Knight, Paul Samuelson, John Maynard Keynes, and the entirety of the Mont Pelerin Society. Trust the ACTUAL Economists. TRUST what the great thinkers and intellectuals say. Are you seriously going to believe memes over the words of actual economists, actual experts? Even the most left-wing economists today, the Keynesians and the Modern Monetary Theorists, support free enterprise and Capitalism. The only controversies in Academia are about details of Capitalism (such as the role of Central Banks or the gold standard).
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I get the sense that a lot of modern socialists say they're 'socialist' the same way a lot of people use the term 'feminist'. They're not saying that capitalism should be outright banned, just that we should reconsider how we do things and use a more responsible mixture of both. But the word still triggers people
Load More Replies... Peign Gaming 3 years ago
Every country should become the socialist utopia of Venezuela. That will fix all! *Thats sarcasm for the intellectually impaired*
Kevin Ber 3 years ago
Socialism would work in Venuzuela if it wasn't so insanely corrupt. You are getting the cause wrong for why Venuzeula is a failed state. It's for the same reason Zimbabwe is a failed state, rampant corruption and government mishandling of everything, including their socialist infrastructure.
Load More Replies... notnow 3 years ago
And somehow I couldn't stop reading this to the end. I should slap myself.
Load More Replies... Random Anon 3 years ago
As things are going, you guys in the US need to think about either an overhaul or secession. The way I see it, the US has gotten so bloated with profit-gorging every step of the way, it looks more like an oligarchy with the same old money bags deciding who gets voted into office.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, people outside of the Us keep telling us what we need to do, but how are we supposed to actually go about doing that? Us normal folk don't have any power. Voting doesn't actually do anything because of gerrymandering and the electoral college. Hillary taught us that. We've tried protesting, but then the Supreme Court just builds a big metal fence around itself, and I can't actually think of a better metaphor for America, right now. About the only thing the American public could do at this point is take up arms, and I thought you all were against things like that
Load More Replies... Jeffrey Keffer 3 years ago
HEY!!!! Those ( consume) are (spend) not (consume) your (spend) sunglasses !!
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 3 years ago
It might be a surprising irony, but one day you Americans will need a lot of guns and courage to overthrow this capitalism and the people feeding it, or your country will down in it
notnow 3 years ago (edited)
Every great Empire and Nation eventually falls or fails. I've known this since my 6th-grade history class. It looks like our time( USA ) is up if you ask me. I don't have kids but I do hate what we have left for the generation or probably the next 10 generations. We didn't get this way overnight and it's not going to be fixed overnight.
Load More Replies... Rucha Vanarase 3 years ago
That's not capitalism. Look at Scandanavia and other countries in the region. Strongly Capitalistic and yet they are working perfectly. None of these problems.
RP 3 years ago (edited)
Neo-liberalism vs. social(ist)-democracy. Captialism itself is the wrong term for most of this. The USA is f****d because of neoliberalism. Scandinavia works (much like most of Europe) because it is a social-democracy. That is, they combine aspects of socialism (like universal healthcare) with a robust democratic political structure.
Load More Replies... Frisinator 3 years ago
I love how a website does posts about the evils of capitalism while showing you ads. Lol.
MorgothBauglir 3 years ago
I find it strange how everyone here is having fun mocking Capitalism, the system that has caused the greatest leaps in prosperity for all of human history, while nearly Every Single Economist supports free-enterprise, mostly free-market Capitalism. Look up Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Joseph Schumpeter, Frederic Bastiat, Leon Walras, Jean-Baptiste Say, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Eugen Böhm-Bawerk, Carl Menger, Knut Wicksell, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Frank Knight, Paul Samuelson, John Maynard Keynes, and the entirety of the Mont Pelerin Society. Trust the ACTUAL Economists. TRUST what the great thinkers and intellectuals say. Are you seriously going to believe memes over the words of actual economists, actual experts? Even the most left-wing economists today, the Keynesians and the Modern Monetary Theorists, support free enterprise and Capitalism. The only controversies in Academia are about details of Capitalism (such as the role of Central Banks or the gold standard).
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I get the sense that a lot of modern socialists say they're 'socialist' the same way a lot of people use the term 'feminist'. They're not saying that capitalism should be outright banned, just that we should reconsider how we do things and use a more responsible mixture of both. But the word still triggers people
Load More Replies... Peign Gaming 3 years ago
Every country should become the socialist utopia of Venezuela. That will fix all! *Thats sarcasm for the intellectually impaired*
Kevin Ber 3 years ago
Socialism would work in Venuzuela if it wasn't so insanely corrupt. You are getting the cause wrong for why Venuzeula is a failed state. It's for the same reason Zimbabwe is a failed state, rampant corruption and government mishandling of everything, including their socialist infrastructure.
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