NutWrench
@NutWrench@lemmy.ml
- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 6 days ago:
The end of real representative democracy began when the courts allowed the “corporations are people / money is speech” arguments. Once that happened, government began to represent only the interests of billionaires and their lobbyists.
It’s taking decades to play out, but it’s going to end badly.
- Comment on Amazon Joins Elon Musk's SpaceX In Mission to Destroy Federal Agency Protecting Workers, Claims The Labor Board Is Unconstitutional 4 months ago:
It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
- Comment on Not only is mutual aid human nature, it fucking rules 4 months ago:
This. Don’t let billionaires gaslight you into thinking that capitalism is some kind of holy word. THEIR idea of “capitalism” is the 19th-century, robber-baron kind that benefits no one but themselves.
- Comment on Ah yes, my time at "XXX" was just amazing. 4 months ago:
Lol. They left the placeholder in the offer. They could probably use a programmer.
- Comment on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands 4 months ago:
Slavery never went away. It just became more profitable.
- Comment on Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional 5 months ago:
If people don’t have the right to decide what their labor is worth, then they are no better than slaves.
- Comment on A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? 5 months ago:
“Reduce the ‘headcount’ but profits must not decrease by one single penny.”
Said no one who understands how businesses work, ever. If capitalism actually worked the way these people claimed it worked, we wouldn’t have so many idiot billionaires.