corporate greed

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually it’s CEO guy thinking of spending 10$ on his politician buddy to strip you of 1$

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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, $1 from you and 100 other people. Those politician bribes campaign donations are cheap compared to the aggregate profit they make off them.

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    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its always baffled me how corporationa managed to bribe politicians but its legal because they use the term “lobbying” instead.

      Imagining murdering someone then saying nope thats not a crime, simply because you won’t call it a homicide, instead you keep labeling it something else.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s another reason we need term limits. The accumulated power and influence a representative has gained needs to be checked.

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    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Youre forgetting they get to decide what the excel looks like. Even if it costs them 5$ per person to get 1$ from them, all they need to show is the excel with employee costs going down to call it profit. The expenses paid out to friends and politicians “need to be spent anyway” so it’s not reallt “a loss”.

      You should see the P&L of these companies and how they twist themselves into knots making the line go up

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ve already stripped our dollars, now they’re coming for our sense

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve already stripped our dollars

    You’re assuming that they can’t strip dollars from you that you don’t even have. They can and are.

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• veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s haunting me!

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  • CaptainKickass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cena was hilarious 😆

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    • veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One of the few highlights this season. I’m hoping it’s just the writer’s strike which caused this season to be so directionless and we get season 2 tier tv again next year

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this isn’t about ghosts this is real shit, man.

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• polite_cat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  unexpected bear meme

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  • veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No-one expects a haunting!

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• undergroundoverground@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember everyone, CEOs do this stuff at the behest of capital. The shareholders want you to be annoyed at the CEO whos simply acting on their orders. Its part of the reason they pay CEOs so much.

  They want us to be annoyed at everyone but the shareholders. Capital has always been the problem.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This doesn’t apply to most people in my country. Only 28% of Americans work for publicly traded companies.

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    • brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Private companies still can have CEOs and shareholders…

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You will own nothing, and you will be happy.

  You will be unrepresented in government, and you will smile in the mirror every morning and say “Joe Biden is the most labor friendly president in American history” 69 times.

  What did you think this was, a free country? Nope, this country is not free. It’s expensive as hell, and you can’t afford the price.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, we’ll be referring to Trump soon enough because of comments like this one, and the floods of far worse comments trying to influence people away from voting blue this November.

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  • gerbler@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shut the fuck up. I don’t like Biden but I don’t want Trump to end democracy.

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