Capitalism, The Best Solution to Poverty
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In a dream, I hear the words "Arise, Sir Jim..."
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Marry a Swazi princess. I think the going rate is 200 head of cattle.
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Not a bad gig if you can get it. Mrs. Lak hasn't quite bought into traditional polygamy yet, but she'll go along if I make her Number 1 Wife and she gets to boss the others around.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Capitalism, you know it makes sense..
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Yes and she gets the biggest hut.
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She gets the gogo hut at the center of the kraal.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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As long as she brews a good Umqombothi.
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Because, you know, job creators, national economy, government interference, [fill in blanks as desired].
'Franchise Workers Lose Some Power to Challenge Labor Practices'
'Franchise Workers Lose Some Power to Challenge Labor Practices'
The National Labor Relations Board announced a new regulation on Tuesday that makes it harder to challenge companies over their labor practices, potentially affecting the rights of millions of workers.
The rule, which will take effect on April 27, scales back the responsibility of companies like McDonald’s for labor-law violations by their franchisees, such as firing workers in retaliation for attempts to unionize. The rule also applies to workers employed through contractors like staffing agencies or cleaning services.
That is a reversal of the doctrine that the board adopted late in the Obama administration, which had made it possible to deem a much wider range of parent companies to be so-called joint employers.
“This final rule gives our joint-employer standard the clarity, stability and predictability that is essential to any successful labor-management relationship and vital to our national economy,” John F. Ring, the board’s chairman, said in a statement.
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Let's look at the lives of poor folks
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American capitalism is the best capitalism, as pictured in the spoilered image.
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OK, I recognize ron mcD, I assume the character next to him to be a burger king mascot, but who is the woman?
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Wendys, who also have a reputibly funny twitter feed.
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Quite and interesting attempt at a hope-inspiring piece in The Economist entitled: Why America’s financial plumbing has seized up (in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic). It's behind a paywall, but I've reproduced it below with some comments inserted.
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So, one of the UK government's headline pandemic responses this week is the measure of, effectively, taking the rail network into public ownership. The reason for this is, as the government have pointed, the rail network is a vital part of the UK's transport infrastructure and must be kept running during the crisis to transfer freight and to get key-workers to and from work.
However, it turns out the real deal doesn't involve the government taking control of the system but undertaking to cover the operators' losses for the next six months to two years while paying the franchise holders back a fee to maintain a skeleton service.
The Trade Union Conference estimates that private rail franchises paid out around £1bn in dividends in the last 6 years (£200m+ last year) and receive around £5bn in government subsidies annually. Subsidies to the rail network have gone up by 200% since privatisation and ticket prices have risen by 20% in real terms (adjusting for inflation) over the same period. The cost of monthly season tickets has risen, on average, from around 2% to around 10% of medium monthly income during that time.
The free-market reasoning of uncle Milton et al maintains that markets are always more efficient and productive in providing services than the state; that markets are inherently more rational; that markets are the optimal way of allocating resources. But those who make strenuous arguments for 'the market' approach don't really seem to believe it - if they did they'd simply resign themselves to the bottom falling out of their business as the action of that unseen, rational, disinterested hand of the market. "Ho-hum," they'd say, "It was good while it lasted I guess, but the market has decided it's just not to be..."
According to free market principles, the rail operators going bust would simply allows another body to come in, buy the business at a knock-down price, renegotiate liabilities with creditor, and attempt to make a better fist of it than the previous owners. This is how the free market is supposed to operate. But what we have, and have had for the last 30 years, is a free market in name only: a free market when profits are guarenteed, but a market that must be bailed out when they aren't.
The government haven't actually taken the rail network or operating companies into public ownership. As with the financial sector after the 2007/8 crash, what it's done is bascially secured private profits and socialised private debts and liabilities against future tax income.
However, it turns out the real deal doesn't involve the government taking control of the system but undertaking to cover the operators' losses for the next six months to two years while paying the franchise holders back a fee to maintain a skeleton service.
The Trade Union Conference estimates that private rail franchises paid out around £1bn in dividends in the last 6 years (£200m+ last year) and receive around £5bn in government subsidies annually. Subsidies to the rail network have gone up by 200% since privatisation and ticket prices have risen by 20% in real terms (adjusting for inflation) over the same period. The cost of monthly season tickets has risen, on average, from around 2% to around 10% of medium monthly income during that time.
The free-market reasoning of uncle Milton et al maintains that markets are always more efficient and productive in providing services than the state; that markets are inherently more rational; that markets are the optimal way of allocating resources. But those who make strenuous arguments for 'the market' approach don't really seem to believe it - if they did they'd simply resign themselves to the bottom falling out of their business as the action of that unseen, rational, disinterested hand of the market. "Ho-hum," they'd say, "It was good while it lasted I guess, but the market has decided it's just not to be..."
According to free market principles, the rail operators going bust would simply allows another body to come in, buy the business at a knock-down price, renegotiate liabilities with creditor, and attempt to make a better fist of it than the previous owners. This is how the free market is supposed to operate. But what we have, and have had for the last 30 years, is a free market in name only: a free market when profits are guarenteed, but a market that must be bailed out when they aren't.
The government haven't actually taken the rail network or operating companies into public ownership. As with the financial sector after the 2007/8 crash, what it's done is bascially secured private profits and socialised private debts and liabilities against future tax income.
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"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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