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- utopian1
"I'm worried about capitalism."
"Thanks to socialism, nobody works. Nobody gives a damn. 'Just give it to me. Send me money. I don't want to work - I'm too lazy, I'm too fat, I'm too stupid."
Bernie Marcus
Co-founder of Home Depot- Bernie Marcus
Net Worth 2022: $5.25 Billionutopian - Socialism?monospaced
- He's always been an ass. I wish there were more Lowe's.formed
- Bernie Marcus
- utopian9
- It's called capitalism. Look it up.NBQ00
- Medicare, the government health program for those over age 65 — it’s also the nation’s largest buyer of drugs — is barred from negotiating drug prices.Morning_star
- *bares toothless grin
Aa-me-ri-kaadrgs - Unbelievable. I feel very fortunate to get my insulin completely paid for by taxes via the Irish public health system.mort_
- 'Murika's healthcare system is absurd. It's just like lobbying, debt, spending...talk, talk, no action from anyoneformed
- if you have insurance the American health care system is the best in the world by far.hotroddy
- Hotroddy, not even close https://worldpopulat…Morning_star
- I go by experience, not charts.hotroddy
- A canadian kid will spend 12 hours overnight in emergency room to cast his broken arm. A floridian kid will spend under 2 hours. $$ talks.hotroddy
- There are countless stories like above.hotroddy
- so how do i set up a business importing insulin from turkey to the usa? seems to be a profitasble endevour and i could undercut all other suppliers by half andtrooperbill
- yuekit1
- Do you think the investors that supplied $33bn (75%ish) of the purchase price of Elons Twitter are also as stupid as Elon and blindly chucked him the cash...Morning_star
- ...with appropriate due diligence ?Morning_star
- Explain what you mean by due diligence...are you thinking Musk shared a detailed plan for Twitter with them?yuekit
- Having been part of investment and acquisition teams I know that those putting Million/billions on the line will expect short/mid/long term plans for the...Morning_star
- ....and health of their investments. And, yes, a detailed plan will be expected and given.Morning_star
- PhanLo2
- you really need an education on the free market. It's communist gov'ts that can historically get away with this when it controls the means of production.hotroddy
- Keep eating your sawdustPhanLo
- A little insight on how food distribution works in socialist countries: https://apnews.com/a…hotroddy
- in a free market, I can easily choose another brand/company. On the other hand, you'd rather eat dog food if it's handed it out for free.hotroddy
- and while you're eating beetle larva, gov't officials are making money buying overpriced slop to feed a starving nationhotroddy
- There are no 'free markets', as you surely know. If the gov't didn't require labeling at all, you would never know what you ate.formed
- Combine that with the 'free market' lobbying and the entire system is manipulated to benefit corps/$$, not give "choice".formed
- Hotrods only eats shoe leather.PhanLo
- @formed, I agree with that. The gov't should be able to audit.hotroddy
- Basically the issue is that people are assholes. Give all the power to corporations and they will put sawdust in your rice crispies. Give the power toyuekit
- Marxist bureaucrats and you'll never know what a rice crispy is.yuekit
- if 'company' has a monopoly on rice crispies I'm sure someone will make and sell their own. In other words, the free market will correct itselfhotroddy
- However, if you can get away with feeding your population cheap-slop it's because gov't has an iron grip on your country and you're FUCKED.hotroddy
- Yuekit is the voice of reason unlike phanlo who literally can't produce a sentence on the subject. The most dangerous population is resentful & uneducated.hotroddy
- they're plenty of private and gov't agencies to make sure phanlo is not eating saw dust for breakfast. Even though he sounds like he's on a steady diethotroddy
- utopian0
- And it's a fruit!shapesalad
- Do you think they like vanilla sex? Just asking..shapesalad
- shapesalad0
- Nowt to do with capitalism. It’s about the rejection of materialism and the use of possessions to define you, thus the following line...Morning_star
- ... “It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”Morning_star
- utopian1
- Shame that woman lost her baby because she got arrested. Adam Smith would be proudPhanLo
- Returned a car to the small Hertz lot this summer, they couldn't find it and threatened my GF and I.Frosty_spl
- Same thing w/my wife and I about a year ago... her Dad was w/us and was smart enough to take a pic of the car and DIY checkout screen in the return lot.PonyBoy
- PhanLo2
- huh, I was also pumped this video on youtube this am...shapesalad
- At one point 30% of our building was Airbnb. Now, thankfully, the owners have switched to longterm renters.Chimp
- Salarrue4
- to start selling piss?MrT
- We'll eventually work out how to filter seawater, so all is not lost. But yeah, it'll cost ya - buddy!Ianbolton
- investmilfhunter
- @Ianbolton "Israel produces 85% of the country's drinkable water, (...), via large-scale desalination of saltwater and brackish water."dmay
- Gonna set up a cryptowater bizNonEntity
- Just invest and profit, who cares about thirsty humans. Nestlé is on it already.NBQ00
- May the first one that doesn't shit in potable water throw the first stone.palimpsest
- sted0
The United States Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a new treatment for a rare blood clotting disease, one with a hefty price tag.
Per dose, it'll cost US$3.5 million, making it the most expensive drug anywhere in the world.
At first glance, the price is gobsmacking, but a recent analysis on the cost-effectiveness of the drug suggests that's a relatively 'fair' price for what the treatment achieves – at least in the US.
The medicine, called Hemgenix, is a gene therapy treatment for hemophilia B, which is a rare genetic disease that causes reduced clotting of the blood. The most serious symptoms include spontaneous and repeated bleeding episodes that are difficult to stop.
- NBQ000
60K tech people laid off recently. Where will they go now?
- skid row
18 and lifePhanLo - They will go on to build the next FTX...shapesalad
- Amazon next year will axe 50% of their global staff. They had increased their staff by 100% during the pandemic. Bullwhip market effect.shapesalad
- It's the crypto/tech crash, built on cheap capital (interest rates below 1%) over the past decade.shapesalad
- That guy voice would be passable with decent mic, gain, eq + compression - but he seems to over gain his mic and make his voice 200% more annoying.shapesalad
- They're not ex-twitter, they don't count apparentlygrafician
- Sorry jonny quest and instrml I only care for ex-Meta losing their jobs
Maybe Amazon, oh wellgrafician - Haha fuck them all!utopian
- skid row
- BuddhaHat1
HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labor
MoneyWatch
HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labor
moneywatchBy Kate Gibson
Updated on: November 14, 2022 / 4:35 PM / MoneyWatch
HelloFresh uses coconut milk obtained from monkey labor in Thailand, according to allegations from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which is calling for a boycott of the meal delivery service.
Monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts, an investigation by PETA Asia alleges. Claims of animals abuse are alleged at 57 operations in nine provinces of Thailand, according to the findings released on Monday.
- utopian2
- Gen X, under performing as usual. GO TEAMautoflavour
- Not easy auto, not easy... We try!!OBBTKN
- This graph makes no fucking sense.Morning_star
- ^ lol what exactly are you struggling to comprehend nowkingsteven
- AHAHAHA FML i was staring at it for minutes, should have read the notes first :Dsted
- Well there’s something lots of generations can agree on... baby boomers are the c@n!sdee-dubs
- @kingsteven. In 2019 Baby Boomers represent 56%, Gen x - 16%, Mill - 4%, Who owns the other 25%?Morning_star
- im a fuckin poor manmilfhunter
- these cohorts cover 1945 - 1997, so presumably 25% was owned by people who in 2019 were over the age of 74 and (to a lesser extent) under the age of 22kingsteven
- Agreed. Would you say that if you extrapolate the baby boomers back to 30yrs old that all generations would have a share of the national wealth that fell...Morning_star
- ...between 5-10%?Morning_star
- tbh, the median cohort age calculation would suggest its 3 separate charts. this is more accurately conveying the generational shift (rather than inequality)kingsteven
- i may re-do this if i get time from the stats without averaging for comparison, it'll be less meaningful but i guess thats what we want to see (numbers that addkingsteven
- up to 100) - for example the raw data shows 2019: 16% silent gen, 51% boomer, 26% genX, 7% millenial.kingsteven
- i also may just go to the pub... frivolous millennial that i amkingsteven
- Just go to the pub. As Gen Xer, i've been there since 11.Morning_star
- The percentage of wealth should really be rebased to account for the size of each generation. Boomers are a large cohort so you expect they account for more.monNom
- they dont... it's 76 million boomers (11 million dead by 2011) 65 million genX, 72 million millennials. now over half of the US population is millennial or genZkingsteven
- safe to say in 2019 boomers were the smallest group, even though maybe 20% of them had died as a group they're still accumulating wealth.kingsteven
- grafician-1
- Adidas is pathetic.PioneerDJ303
- Imagine Nike selling Air Jordans without Jordan
Smhgrafician - Jordan designs the shoes?!nb
- Guess not directly, but the man's name's on them for decadesgrafician
- Anyway, adidas comp is in bad shape and nobody will buy Yeezies anymore without Kanye behind them so yeah
Probabil Nike will buy adidas on the cheap next yeargrafician - < "We buy them because they’re Yeezys not because they’re Adidas"grafician
- < ""We don't want Fake Yeezys": Fans react as Adidas plans on selling Yeezys without iconic Kanye branding"grafician
- Mingin shoes with or without the Yeezeball attached.PhanLo
- Yeezy shoes are cunt slippers.MrT