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- detritus2
Looks lik ethere might be some good on the horizon for you Yankeedoodles in terms of your dysfunctional rip-off of a 'health system'...
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Link Up to Form New Health-Care Company
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…
'The three companies said they plan to set up a new independent company “that is free from profit-making incentives and constraints.”'
- “The ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy” Buffettdetritus
- Amazed Gates hasn't done something like this. Gotta question why massive capitalists want to get involved though. It does seem we arefadein11
- going to see more of this while govt's don't provide basic needs to their citizens.fadein11
- our survival is increasingly reliant on the benevolence of the tech billionaires. This is them doing politics - they've just bypassed the systemFax_Benson
- yepfadein11
- lol, because those companies have a great history of putting people before profitsmonospaced
- at least this lot are relatively transparent and well-intentionedFax_Benson
- @mono, strangely angry response? surely any positive step towards fixing your embarrassingly broken healthcare system is a positive no?fadein11
- bottom line is there is plenty of money to go around to look after patients and providers if you remove the fucking greed from the equation.fadein11
- I didn't say it's not positive, relax. Nothing angry about my response. I'm just remarking that those companies are renowned for their profits. Chillax.monospaced
- Apologies for being even a bit skeptical about the "free from profit-making incentives" part, I feel like I have a good reason to be.monospaced
- mono has a point, people should be skeptical of these mofos, those who aren't, are the problem.GuyFawkes
- If they don't profit immensely, probably the tune of billions, I predict they'll shut down immediatelymonospaced
- well it certainly can't get any worse can it.fadein11
- Honestly? Yes, it can. But optimistically, I’m seeing some hope. Skeptical hope. JPmorgan healthcare. :/monospaced
- thats the ticket monofadein11
- sofas1
As isolation and affectionate human touch deprivation are increasing, the demand and subsequent supply for a Girlfriend Experience (GFE) seem to be on the rise.
online cuddler certification
http://www.certifiedcuddlers.com…The Girlfriend Experience (TV series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th…)Girlfriend experience
"While it used to be the norm for legal prostitutes to never kiss on the mouth,[8][page needed] the popularity of the GFE has changed the business with brothels like Dennis Hof's Love Ranch South, Moonlite Bunny Ranch[9], Kit Kat Ranch[10] and Sheri's Ranch advertising themselves as "GFE" Establishments.[11][12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gi…
- Gnash3
- rat in the mazecanoe
- Live in your Amazon-built / owned employee pod, buy your food and entertainment from Amazon stores. Modern day workhouses.face_melter
- Prison without walls. Geniuses.PhanLo
- cunts. this isnt capitalism its something far far ugliermugwart
- Gnash2
Between 1969 & 1970 this puppy earned $40 Billion dollars!
(from this ny'er article:)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazi…- (for xerox, obviously)Gnash
- I remember my grandfather had one of these in his home office in the early '80s.monospaced
- My dad bought a detached house in a fancy neighbourhood in Toronto for $19,500 back in '67. damn, $40 billion...Gnash
- I like this post gnash. crazy figures.fadein11
- seriously, mono? that's awesome. Curious how much they were.Gnash
- @fadein, so you're saying you liked it better when women were only secretaries?Gnash
- ;)Gnash
- so ubiquitous now, but quite the revolution thenGnash
- lol, those figures are insanefadein11
- yeah, he was a doctor and had his practice in his brownstone ... I remember xeroxing things as a very early memorymonospaced
- mandomafioso1
Interesting reading on monetary policy. https://theintercept.com/2018/02…
- sofas0
Seems like an unspoken (?) argument in favor of intellectual property (IP) is "if I can't be the sole / highest profiter from my thought, no one else should be allowed to either".
Unspoken due to embarrassment in admitting it?
Also I would assume few people release their IP to the public domain after exhausting their efforts to monetize it. Could be they can't be bothered or haven't even thought about it, but I think it's ego..- NO, unspoken as in, "it should go without saying," or, "generally accepted without having to be mentioned, at all"monospaced
- Yes, it's generally accepted, without having to be spelled out, that the creator of IP should profit from it.monospaced
- Why would anyone be embarrassed of that? Why would anyone feel compelled to release IP in the first place? Your train of thought is quite odd.monospaced
- A.Why limit the monopoly to X years?
B.Copying is not theft, it's copying.
C.The main argument for IP is inventiveness, not X's thoughts are more privileged.sofas - IP reminds me of "calling" something, like riding shotgunsofas
- you make little-to-no sense most of the timemonospaced
- Actually no. IP is about “I get to control who profits from my work”cannonball1978
- colin_s3
- He be stable genius yo!utopian
- Only the most couture rats for bespoke craft holescannonball1978
- sofas2
Is having a jury trial system a symptom of the compliance of the populace, i.e. scare and dumb the people so much that even though they have a safe option to protect their fellow citizen, they will gladly punish him and indirectly further weaken themselves?
FIJA works to:
• Inform potential jurors of their traditional, legal authority to refuse to enforce unjust laws
• Inform potential jurors that they cannot be required to check their consciences at the courthouse door
• Inform potential jurors that they cannot be punished for their verdicts
• Inform everyone that juror veto—jury nullification—is a peaceful way to protect human rights against corrupt politicians and government tyranny- a reminder that the government is a racket for the powerfulsofas
- sofas1
- https://www.youtube.…sofas
- Are these activities mostly about bosses reminding employees they are subordinates? Humiliation is a great memory joltersofas
- maybe i'm wrong
https://en.wikipedia…sofas - I'm good, thanks lolkgvs72
- all of it is elementary physics, anybody can do that :)renderedred
- #1 reason to freelance, avoid all that team building, forced work social crap.shapesalad
- Yeah. Freelance all the way. "Are you going to firewalk?" "Do I get time and a half?"cannonball1978
- Late stage capitalism: walk across red hot metal to get your wage.face_melter
- sofas1
"In 2009 the numbers were generally lower but still amounted to 9 years in front of the screen for an average 65-year-old American (more than 4 h/day, 28 h/week). Given the 30% of local TV news broadcast time devoted to advertising, this results in 2 million TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65. An average child in the US will see 20,000 of 30-second TV commercials per year.[6] The time spent watching commercials is reduced when watching recorded TV[7] It has even been surmised that due to media multitasking, TV commercials are largely ignored.[8]"
- "Skid Ad >>" for the winshapesalad
- "skip" even...shapesalad
- Many times the content itself is an ad.sofas
- shapesalad-7
I like Capitalism. Just look what happened to the price of Rhodium in 2017. Doubled your investment if you'd bought into that one.
LSE:XRH0
Supply and demand, competition, free market. It's just biological survival in the form of goods and money.
Governments, trade agreements, taxation - that's where all the problems lie.
- There are different forms and degrees to capitalism.
Biological survival can be achieved (sometimes better) in other ways than the current situation which is...sofas - actually causing mass extinction.
Today's governments etc. are capitalist.sofas - THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE MARKETS...SKIPPY!utopian
- Teenage Ayn Rand shite.face_melter
- is this guy a troll? everything he says is ludicrously uninformed. preaching social darwinism and praising the value of african rocks. get a fucking life.kingsteven
- There are different forms and degrees to capitalism.
- sofas1
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Amirah al-Turkistani, a graphic design lecturer at Jeddah University, reads a bedtime story to her children at her house in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, October 23, 2017.
REUTERS/Reem Baeshen
- i_monk10
- God Bless American Greed!utopian
- Netflix: The bank that runs the world.slappy
- The folk who take this at face value are a little bit stupid.Morning_star
- wasn't this stated decades ago? I remember reading someone sitting in a major meeting when they dictated it was more profitable to keep people sick...mugwart
- Indeed. The logic is that if a Pharma company create a cure that eradicates a disease completely in a couple of years their market suddenly disappears. It's....Morning_star
- ...not a sustainable business model.Morning_star
- so it's not a sustainable business model, it's still a business if you can recoup costs, cure everyone and close up shop with a tidy profit.shapesalad
- ^ and there is the problem - cost to develop a cure far exceeds the revenue it'd generate.shapesalad
- ^ but in any case, humans are surviving and reproducing too much for it to be sustainable on planet earth. Perhaps let nature, as cruel as it is, cull the weak?shapesalad
- That's horribly naive and kinda stupid to say. Just because someone was born w some problem doesn't mean they won't bring world peace or be the next Picaso.formed
- sofas1
Musings after very superficial reading...
It looks like "community relations" or "community reinvestment" has a significant side effect / done to raise the market entry barrier, gather intelligence on and infiltrate local population, increase dependency on the corporation, replace the government, improve reputation with bread and circuses.
It reminds me of the mob helping out the poor.
https://www.inc.com/encyclopedia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co…- i've heard "socialise losses, privatise profit" and phrases like "corporate socialism" to describe this sort of practice in the sates, but essentially yourkingsteven
- government pays banks to be less discriminatory?kingsteven
- the banks exploit it to make a quick buck by giving out a shit ton of risky loans... triggers worldwide global financial crisis... banks bailed out by taxpayerkingsteven
