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We were working ourselves to the bone with all this overtime, and I had just become a new dad at the time... so my coworker walks up to me around 6 PM—I'd already put in two extra hours—and says, totally sincerely, "Man, just go home. The company isn't going to look after your wife and baby..."
To his misfortune (or mine, who knows? I left, and now he's basically the lead developer at Microsoft), five minutes later my department head calls me over and goes, "Person X, the guy from a moment ago, mentioned you're always the first one out the door and everyone's complaining about being stuck here without you"... It’s hard when you're sitting just a few feet away from someone like that, especially since there were a couple of others with that exact same mindset
vividfox9 said:How would you explain that kind of betrayal? Why does it even happen?
It's all because of what Jacques Fresco used to call the "economy of scarcity"...
Haha, I know that feeling all too well. Unlike Nikica Senjanović, though, I just gave my thanks and walked out the door
(Just to clarify: I don't work there now, but I dealt with a very similar situation at my old job)
crimsoncyclist71 said:This is just another lie manufactured specifically to incite hatred against her, which inevitably leads to death threats.
Regardless of my stance on free speech, the Department of Justice should handle these matters proactively as part of their official duties. People shouldn't have to file private lawsuits just to get the Department of Justice to take action. I realize it’s unlikely, but forum admins should also be removing these false accusations meant to fuel hate.
Am I wrong? Think you're telling the truth?
Let's hear the audio recording that will prove your claim is actually true.
It's interesting how the American right uses these exact same tactics:
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-New...%20Jarrett.jpg
Look at how they posted something a female politician said that she never actually uttered...
Don't play around with that stuff. You have no idea how much harder it is to be on the left than the right... Komandant Šamil got hit way harder for some minor left-wing nonsense on YouTube than those right-wing troublemakers who planted actual bombs in Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Taylor6 said:It was all thanks to those complicated brothers—not the hospitality types, mind you, but these sailors who refused to be played.
Instead, he’s the one who got fleeced. He did, his former massive corporation, and his old little private firm too. He really screwed himself over:
And don't forget the rest of us getting dragged down with him:
Along with these poor souls:
Well, SAS handled Šale, Aras, and the rest of that old political elite... it was just a mess of amateurism and theft, with hardly any actual expertise or true patriotism to speak of...
Casey Ramos31 said:What a joke of an article. Like the brave little workers actually took down the evil dictator Franjo Harmon 👏
All I can say is "thank you" for letting me stack up a massive pile of shares at $100 and offload them at $2000 👏
A lot of us here in Los Angeles have really struck it rich thanks to them...
Casey Ramos31 said:What assets are you even talking about? 🙄
just like the housing buyouts.
The whole housing buyout thing happened the only way it could because the socialist system left everything in absolute shambles.
Too bad those fat cats had an even sweeter "everything for a buck" deal.
Why on earth would anyone sell something for a single dollar?
social
The apartment buybacks were handled the best way possible, considering how much chaos the socialist system caused...
There wasn't any chaos at all...
Why on earth would anyone sell something for just one dollar?
Just ask Kutle and Škegro...
Casey Ramos31 said:Back under those '91 privatization laws, I think workers actually stood a chance at getting shares. The law was actually on their side—something like a 20% + 1% annual formula.
Exactly. It was the perfect chance for employees to reclaim their own value, much like how they could buy out their apartments. It’s just a shame the corporate giants had access to those even cheaper "everything for a dollar" deals...
rustywalker32 said:Do you actually know what competition entails?
Is that the thing every self-proclaimed capitalist is terrified of—the kind they fight tooth and nail against while their PR department simultaneously claims, "Oh, we love the competition! It just motivates us to improve our bottom line..."
crimsonwolf20 said:Oh, please, you’re totally right—the world was just as loaded back in 1665 as it was in 1995, obviously. 🤦
Well, if you had paid more attention in school, you'd realize I didn't say what you think I said. My point was simply that the world in 1995 was wealthier than in 1665, though 1665 was still much better than 1065
It seems you're having a bit of trouble following my logic...
crimsonwolf20 said:Oh, please, quit whining, you clueless amateur.
So, besides skipping school—congrats to unknown for pointing that out ages ago—you're also just naturally rude? 😂
crimsonwolf20 Asks:
It just isn't working, you novice. For ten thousand years, nothing truly significant has changed... the life of an average farmer in the 17th century was barely different from one in the 14th, the 11th, or even back in the 2nd century...
It’s truly incredible how much we've achieved. In just two centuries, our quality of life has skyrocketed alongside technological leaps that once seemed like pure science fiction. We've essentially traded horses for starships...
This was all made possible by the rise of capitalism, the free market, and private enterprise...
unknown, did you even go to school? Seriously...
The world is constantly evolving, and there’s no denying that capitalism was a massive leap forward compared to the old feudal systems... but its era is drawing to a close, much like all the structures that came before it
crimsonwolf20 said:Honestly, even the self-proclaimed socialists can't seem to agree on what "true" socialism actually looks like—and it's not because it's some mythical utopia sitting on a blueprint somewhere, no way. It's because they're dealing with the pure embarrassment that every single, and I mean every single one, attempt has been a spectacular disaster. We're talking tens of millions of lives lost in shallow graves and hundreds of millions more trapped in socialist totalitarianism, living in levels of poverty that you wouldn't even dream of seeing under American capitalism.
It's a tough pill to swallow, ☕
Capitalism has pushed billions into poverty just so the top 1% can grab more than half of the world's wealth... something unseen even back in the feudal era
Casey Ramos31 said:Oh yeah, because those geniuses working the floor built the whole damn company. They just shook out some US dollars and bought the land, the factory, the machines, the raw materials, the licenses, and the patents, then just sat there coasting :klap:
As for those Republican puppets? They aren't even in the same league as the real elites. ☕
Well, I suppose to people who haven't built anything themselves, that might sound a bit strange... but the truth is, even US dollars are created by the hard work of laborers; they don't just grow on trees...
Marx faced accusations of being an antisemite just as often as he was blamed by others for bringing the evil of communism to the world—it really just depended on who was attacking him. Both sides were clearly in the wrong,
nothing more than a basic ad hominem
crimsonwolf20 said:How can you say that? I mean, Marx was actually an anti-semite himself—did you skip that part of history? 🤷
Look, any power a government grants itself under socialism theoretically gives the state total control over the individual, their property, and their basic freedoms. Everything belongs to the state and the regime running its machinery. That’s exactly why those German socialists were able to shove people into death camps—it was all "legal" in the name of the collective, the people, society, socialism, anti-capitalism, and all those other national socialist principles 👍
Socialism is essentially the state using its monopoly on force to crush fundamental personal and economic liberties. It's not exactly a massive leap to assume that a regime that doesn't respect its own boundaries will toss "undesirables" into Gulags, Alcatraz, or deal with them via an axe to the head like Đureković or in Treblinka like the German socialists did. That right there is the backbone of statism and every statist model out there, from socialism all the way to fascism.
Giving a regime too much power is never, ever a good idea. 👍
A Jew being an anti-Semite? Well, that certainly takes the cake...
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Olivia Evans8 said:It’s just great how you totally ignore all those massive American corporations that actually grew from nothing.
And apparently, in your world, the definition of capitalism is just handing over a company to your buddies in the political party... lol.
That’s not "right" or "wrong" capitalism—it’s just not capitalism at all! A business handed to you because of political connections instead of actual hard work or innovation? That’s something else entirely...
But hey, you're Sophia Moore52, so I guess you're supposed to be an expert on this stuff, right?...
Sending Jews to concentration camps isn't socialism either (it makes zero sense to suggest Marx, being a Jew, would advocate for his own destruction), yet people still make a huge deal out of it, while you seem perfectly fine with it.
Karen Rodriguez3 said:I guess you're just totally missing the point here.
If someone is being upfront and admitting that things were split up among cronies back in the nineties—which wasn't right—why do you keep acting like that's some textbook example of capitalism? It's not.
Do you really think there aren't any legit businesses in America that actually work and were built the right way?
There are.
And they deserve a fair shake.
Everything that's bothering you isn't actually capitalism, and nobody's saying it was good, but you just fixate on the bad stuff and call it capitalism. You fight against it without actually listening to a word anyone tells you.
Sorry, but you're just lost.
Someone pointed out a weird paradox somewhere, maybe on this thread or one like it.
We end up in a mess because of government overreach, yet the "smart" solution people suggest is usually even more government control.
Sure, we need more influence, but specifically when it comes to shrinking the bureaucracy, staying out of the economy, fighting corruption, and actually making sure laws are applied fairly.
Everything else? Just let the market handle it.
It's because we live in a capitalist democracy, isn't it that simple? If you feel like this version of capitalism isn't the "real" thing, that sounds like a personal issue rather than mine.