People Are Throwing Punches At Late-Stage Capitalism, And Here Are 50 Of The Best Posts

"Too big to fail" is just another way of saying you're being ripped off. And to top it off these companies were giving their executives bonuses.

If the government has to put up 1 million dollars in bail money; the government should get shares of the company to the value of 1 million dollars. That's as fair as it can get. Problem solved.

Too big to fail, too big to exist.

Welcome to the sports industry: how many cities build stadiums at the taxpayer’s dime and then have to support infrastructure to top it off.

Unfortunately they can and they did. I don't disagree with the sentiment but whenever the government gets involved in anything, anywhere the cost to value increases exponentially. The bureaucracy and administrators usually increase operating cost by 50-75% and production suffers dramatically.

The problem is that too many businesses wind up with not-Porsches.

Love Brian Tyler Cohen, he speaks the truth! Always watch his YouTube videos.

Seems like a basic economic concept... value of labour and price of labour... supply and demand... that sort of thing.

This sounds good until we price the minimum wage so high we lose jobs. $15 is not it. But in California it's $22 for some jobs now. That's what I pay my babysitter. That used to be a good job. I prided myself on paying the nanny above minimum wage. Plenty of people do not pay household staff minimum wage. But I'd hate to see people start losing jobs bc we think we can just raise the minimum wage forever. It's not all big business giving jobs and paying wages. Fine- no babysitter for me. But what about the babysitter with no rent money now?

If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, you have a hobby, not a business.

In the US, check the "highest paid government employee" for your state. 80% of the time, it will be the coach of the state university.

As a European, US universities are all considered an academic lackering over a thinly disguised sports franchise, even if the academic disguise does turn out good people with good educations each year. It's all about money, fame, position and only secondly about the academic work.

I've always said that the "education" system prioritizes sports way too much.

U of M, Michigan, all of them

Is it really controversial to tell it like it is?

Too many parents want baby sitters not teachers

All school staff are underpaid, overworked, underappreciated, and treated horribly. Except for superintendents and administrators, they are the perpetuators.

I don't know why anyone in the USA would go into teaching these days.

Legislatures stripping teacher bargaining rights to almost nothing is part of the problem. Also legislatures who confuse themselves with the Inquisition when it comes to curriculum. (And, sadly, yes I've been expecting that.)

This is so true, I get so aggravated when I see athletes making millions of dollars, and salary of a teacher is what like $40K?

Some (average non-billionaire) people will actually fight you over that opinion. Humanity is weird.

You know what is a better system? The one where critics end up in gulags or just disappear. Would you like that one more?

There should be a wealth maximum, as when you reach a certain amount, say, 1 billion or so, you get a nice plaque wit "I played through capitalism", and every cent more should go to charity or common projects.

Welcome to CAPITALISM where the many are controlled by the few.

No wonder aliens/cosmonauts/gods do not want to make contact with humans when we have a system of a few people parking every solution to poverty and sickness in tax paradises and letting the majority rot.

Join a union. It doesn't have to be this way. Many unions in Europe have white collar workers too. The wealthy companies look out for shareholders not employees. Union membership means you have someone working for your best interests.

Treat your employees like sh*t and soon you'll only have sh*t employees... supply and demand.

I remember a friend who divorced her husband. Amongst other things, he accused her of being frigid and not liking sex because she wouldn’t sleep with him. She told him, point blank, “Oh no, I’m not frigid. I like sex. I just don’t like sex with YOU”. Same thing applies here. Certain companies complaining that people don’t want to work anymore, when the truth is, they just don’t want to work for those companies, because of all the reasons listed above in this posting. Just like my friend’s ex-husband, who made life and intimacy with him really unpleasant, if those companies had made it worth people’s while to work for them, by paying a decent wage and not falling into the typical adversarial “us (management) vs them (labor)” relationship with their employees, they would have filing cabinets overloaded with the resumes of very qualified people who are dying to come work with them. They don’t sweeten the pot, they’re going to continue to be woefully short handed and eventually obsolete, while their competitors who are adapting to the times and offering employees better pay without the “management vs labor” b******t attitude and toxic work atmosphere thrive.

This is EXCELLENT!!!! I'm 100% against the "anti-work" movement, but 100% for educating management about how to retain a successful workforce and how to invest in their "human resources" (to use their own Orwellian term).

Exactly! I have no sympathy for corporate America.

This is the only Kardashian post that doesn't make me want to vomit.

Unlike other shows, I'd PAY to watch this....

Or force her to work in one of the sweatshops making her overpriced clothing.

There would be absolutely no way to regulate that. They’d simply act like they love it and be supported financially off camera and pretend to act and dramatise everything like they do already and continue their sham scripted franchise and people would lap it up and they’d make even more money. Just send them to a desert island and leave them there. Problem solved.