OT Unregulated capitalism killing the American Dream

Inflation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

 

Fed Rate Hikes Are "Body Blow" to Workers Reeling from Pandemic, Growing Inequality

 

Strikes spread across Amazon UK warehouses as workers reject “pathetic” pay offer

https://popularresistance.org/strik...ehouses-as-workers-reject-pathetic-pay-offer/

Jeff Bezos is inhumane.

 

L.A. Activists Demand Real Solutions to Housing Crisis as City Cracks Down on Homeless Encampments

 

Amazon Employees Hold First-Ever Work Stoppage in Air Freight Division

"If Amazon can afford to pay its CEO $214 million last year it can afford to give their workers a $5-an-hour raise and a safe workplace," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...first-ever-work-stoppage-air-freight-division

 

Giving all Amazon employees a $5 per hour raise would cost an additional $10 billion per year in wages.

I think Bernie's math is off on this one.

 

Bernie stated a fact. Amazon can afford to give it's employees a $5 per hour raise. You seem to be the one doing math.

America went from baby boomers having unions that allowed them to sit at the bargaining table when it came to their future. Amazon, and too many corporations have taken away workers rights to decide their future pay, life style, etc., by destroying unions in this country. Young Americans have less bargaining rights than their grandparents did at their same age. When boomers were young, they could get good paying union jobs, because many of the largest employers in America... were unionized. Nowadays most of the largest companies in America , don't have unions, and actively bust them by hiring union busting firms.

Americans should have a say about their futures. Corporations don't seem to see humans as worthy of a future, or a life for that matter.

 

Yeah, I agree with all of that. I was more ribbing him for the if/than statement.

They can afford it, but it has nothing to do with what they pay their CEO.

I wish he wouldn't do stuff like that, though. It opens him (and by extension, his cause) up to unnecessary criticism.

 

America's Out-Of-Control Overdraft Fees - If You Don't Know, Now You Know

 

Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?

 

So what? Profit is just a euphemism for theft. They deserve those wages.

 

I don't disagree at all. Just pointing out that the math doesn't add up as Bernie suggested it would.

I wish he would stop doing that.

 

UPS Says No to Air Conditioning, But Here’s a Surveillance Camera

https://popularresistance.org/ups-says-no-to-air-conditioning-but-heres-a-surveillance-camera/

 

Fetterman Calls for Prosecution of Corporate Executives 'Gouging Consumers'

"It's gross, and deeply unpatriotic, for the big corporations to be rolling around in cash while charging us record-high prices for gas and groceries," said the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...cution-corporate-executives-gouging-consumers

 

Shock Video: Driver Collapses From Heat As UPS Blames Workers

 

'All of Us Are Paying the Price' as Corporate Profits Surge to Record-High $2 Trillion

"Astronomical corporate profits confirm what corporate executives have been telling us on earning calls over and over again: They're making a lot of money by charging people more."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...orporate-profits-surge-record-high-2-trillion

With all of the Americans we have right now that are struggling, or are homeless. Corporate profits are at an all time high. America shows that it is literally a... "for profit" over lives country.

 

How Rural America’s Assets Have Been Systematically Stripped Away

https://popularresistance.org/qa-how-rural-americas-assets-have-been-systematically-stripped-away/

 

Answer: Because they keep slurping the republican Kool-Aid...

 

3.8 million tenants in the US could be evicted in the next two months

https://popularresistance.org/3-8-million-tenants-in-the-us-could-be-evicted-in-the-next-two-months/

Rising rent and low wages are causing too many Americans to become housing insecure.

No, biggy. Nothing that more weapons sent to Ukraine won't fix...

 

How Capitalism Robs the Developing World