#latestagecapitalism

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https://twitter.com/traemurray/status/1174470262030364672

[Joe Molotov]

Good riddance

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https://twitter.com/ShaneSheehy/status/1176707495169089537

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https://twitter.com/portlandmercury/status/1176875355107295232

[Flannel Boy]

https://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/high-net-worth/ncomes-of-canadas-1-grew-faster-than-everyone-elses-in-2017-and-their-taxes-went-down

Statistics Canada says in 2017 the average total income of all tax filers rose 2.5 per cent compared to the previous year, while those in the top one per cent saw average income growth of 8.5 per cent.
 
The report says the top 0.1 per cent took home 17.2 per cent more income, and people in the top 0.01 per cent, who made at least $2.7 million, saw their incomes rise 27.2 per cent

Note: Inflation is about 2%, and the rate significantly underestimates shelter costs (especially in Toronto and Vancouver).

edit:

Seems more like an anomaly. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/190924/cg-b001-eng.htm

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/1176993857579470848

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/mishxx88/status/1172336825039409152

Dude paid to promote this tweet.

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/NintenDaan/status/1176993857579470848

 

Why are people so bent out of shape that a mobile game is priced exactly the same way as all of the other popular free to play games are priced.

Clash Royale, clash of clans, Marvel puzzle quest, etc all have the same monthly $5-10 purchase thing going on.

[benjipwns]

Mario Kart Tour should be a clicker game. Nintendo is falling behind in the most important genre. Sad to see.

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https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/1177229551249719297

[Brehvolution]

Bitcoin is about freedom and it is in no-way dangerous to society

Until it loses its value and people are broke.

Only down -8.07% today so far.

[kingv]

If only the dollar had such great buying opportunities.

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https://twitter.com/ltotheucy/status/1176617049176596481

[kingv]

I gotta remember to keep my flesh light on the kitchen table just in case.
Stay safe y’all.

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you can also use double sided black dildos to unclog throats 

[kingv]

No those are to induce vomitting

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https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1171131177622786048

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1171131177622786048

An ad agency, for money.

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1171131177622786048

I liked them better when they were about resurrected dead on planet Jupiter.

[hampster]

[OnlyRegret]

 

[Akala]

always endgame

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https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1177767879229497349

[Transhuman]

https://twitter.com/traemurray/status/1174470262030364672

"Okay sweetie just keep crying and hold it a little higher so mommy can take a picture."

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/BENJEYD/status/1176919319307005957

 

[Yeti]

https://twitter.com/BENJEYD/status/1176919319307005957

 

I assumed benji was already eating dog and cat food because benji is a famous dog and also he has a cat avatar

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1177767879229497349

[nachobro]

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1177767879229497349

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/traemurray/status/1174470262030364672

"Okay sweetie just keep crying and hold it a little higher so mommy can take a picture."

That kid is fake crying.

I don’t see no tears.

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https://twitter.com/kristinlawless/status/1177302915104460800

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https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1178005656865034240

[Nintex]

Honestly, I don't get the 'obsession' with unions solving workers rights issues.

Unions haven't accomplished much in decades.
The left is reheating ideas and doing it poorly.

Unions have given away all their leverage, demands and influence and negotiated the worst possible deals.
At this point they're nearly extinct and people think something as ineffective as a union is going to help them?
They haven't done shit.

"We needs Unions" 


LMAO

Also Nathan is poorly defending the values of Kickstarter workers. He has a campaign on there, llke a Call of Duty boycotter.
His shitty blog probably can't make ends meet without Kickstarter.

Maybe not give up all your brand recognition, virtue signaling and 'values' to some platform with nice colors and stock images.
I'm sure that in the plan of hauling in loads of cash Kickstarter didn't think about it's own bottom line you dumbfuck. 

[Rufus]

There is, of course, only one kind of union. The ineffectual kind. Therefore, unions are bad.

Sterling analysis.

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https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1178233256447078401

 

[Rufus]

Land acquisition is a lot simpler over there.

[Crash Dummy]

not really late stage but yolo
https://twitter.com/nmgrm/status/1178399231478046720

[Great Rumbler]

There is, of course, only one kind of union. The ineffectual kind. Therefore, unions are bad.

Sterling analysis.

It can't possibly have anything to do with decades of anti-union legislation and PR sponsored by megacorporations...

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https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1178654457778839552

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https://twitter.com/rnormand/status/1178443582279012353

[Nintex]

Ah well, just stick to your unions until they've negotiated away the Christmas holidays 

Anyone wants to join my union?

[Nintex]

Unions are a relic of the past. It's like dropping more Napalm on Vietnam in 2019 to scare away Chinese communists.

[Rufus]

Why do you think stagnating wages and declining unions coincide?

[Nintex]

I too, look at 200 years of labor union successes and failures and then choose the last 30 to make definitive, absolute statements on their utility.

You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. 

[Crash Dummy]

Why do you think stagnating wages and declining unions coincide?

lazy workers, fortunately there's a solution:
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1178429549689921536

[Crash Dummy]

well i posted at a bad time

[OnlyRegret]

can't say I'm an expert on unions, but I feel when they get bloated and bureaucratic and more concerned with propagating themselves than doing what their task is (worker collective representation) they become more a hassle
aside from that though, it is weird to rag on unions as a whole since fundamentally it just represents workers negotiating as a whole in order to better hold a position rather than as singular units which are easily disposed of, seems like someone has drank a bit too much walmart union-harassment koolaid

[OnlyRegret]

I too, look at 200 years of labor union successes and failures and then choose the last 30 to make definitive, absolute statements on their utility.

You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. 

pray tell, if unions are carriages then what does the car represent?

[Rufus]

You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. 

You just can't help yourself including your flawed premise, huh?

Why are currently unionized workers not abandoning their unions? Are they just stupid?

[kingv]

Had an interesting conversation with my Republican dad about unions.

He’s managing parts of a multi-billion dollar construction project, and says to me the other day that he prefers to work with Union shops which surprised me.

And he’s like “well, the unions actually get their shit done on time because they have quality control in place to make sure that their workers are properly trained and certified and the non-union shops sometimes just send some asshole that doesn’t know what he’s doing”.

I laughed at that because in any other context he’d tel you unions are awful.

[Nintex]

Why do you think stagnating wages and declining unions coincide?

lazy workers, fortunately there's a solution:
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1178429549689921536

Just told my staff over the group chat they're getting new gadgets 

Kidding aside, the unions can't beat the autisty tech nerds of Silicon Valley.

I too, look at 200 years of labor union successes and failures and then choose the last 30 to make definitive, absolute statements on their utility.

You can look at 200 years of successes of traveling by carriage but these days I'd rather use a car to get around. 

pray tell, if unions are carriages then what does the car represent?

An example in my field of work would be "TheFutur" a platform where creatives learn how to do business, ask more money for design and negotiate better.
The key is a better educated workforce that understands how business works and can take care of themselves better and I'm in favor of UBI or the Freedom Dividend(TM) to vastly simplify the system of benefits and subsidies.

These two examples are from some highly talented people. Not the same dumb dumbs banding together. Take videogame journo's for example.
Would it make any difference if Imran Khan and Patrick Klepek negotiated their wages together instead of alone? lmao.

The idea of a union is based on the fact that human labour can be used as a bargaining chip in a negotiation and that's simply not the case anymore.
Because in a globalized world there's always some scrub willing to do it for way less.

[Crash Dummy]

holy shit a reasonable post 

[Rufus]

I guess if I had taken an entrepreneurship class Kroger wouldn't have paid me $9.20/hr last year as a cashier

Even if you had, your boss would have teleported someone across the border to do your job.

[OnlyRegret]

An example in my field of work would be "TheFutur" a platform where creatives learn how to do business, ask more money for design and negotiate better.
The key is a better educated workforce that understands how business works and can take care of themselves better and I'm in favor of UBI or the Freedom Dividend(TM) to vastly simplify the system of benefits and subsidies.

These two examples are from some highly talented people. Not the same dumb dumbs banding together. Take videogame journo's for example.
Would it make any difference if Imran Khan and Patrick Klepek negotiated their wages together instead of alone? lmao.

The idea of a union is based on the fact that human labour can be used as a bargaining chip in a negotiation and that's simply not the case anymore.
Because in a globalized world there's always some scrub willing to do it for way less.

Interesting point you're putting across. Tired of playing braindead?
Yeah, when AOC was trying to rep her border policies by claiming big business didn't like immigration I was like bullshit

[Rufus]

Or workers/jobs as fungible as some like to pretend.

[Great Rumbler]

Unions are old and lame, sweeping away the bourgeoisie in a violent socialist revolution is the new hotness!

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https://twitter.com/UtzSnacks/status/1178686275894874112

utz snacks > yum! brands

 

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[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/MarketWatch/status/1178369905244229633

[Transhuman]

Three weeks vacation a year lol.

[Crash Dummy]

Or workers/jobs as fungible as some like to pretend.

idk man, just speaking anecdotally based on my own experience/observations large businesses tend to set up KPIs around cost cutting for back office functions so they don't really shed a tear axing an employee/teams/departments if they can get scrubs for cheap even if they are in another country and not especially competent. it's extremely shortsighted but ultimately these businesses will say they exist to maximise shareholder returns and value