• bmoney@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    and when pointed out people are like “thats just the way the world works” and it makes me want to die

    • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Don’t spend your time dreading stuff friend! Focus on what’s in front of your eyes. Local politics is much more productive. Once u have a core ideology you can just forget the world beyond your home state exists.

      What are you going to do for people in Florida? Nothing unless you live in Florida.

  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Jack Welch, CEO of GE –

    “Don’t own a cafeteria: Let a food company do it,” he advised. “Don’t run a print shop: Let a printing company do that… This is what outsourcing is all about,” he continued, blithely concluding that the jobs simply “migrated elsewhere,” as if the careers of thousands of Americans were birds seeking warmer climes.

    Workers rarely fared so well at their new employers. Instead of having a job at GE, a stalwart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and a reliably decent employer, the workers were funneled to contractors that typically offered inferior pay, little benefits and little job security."

    (Source: The Man Who Broke Capitalism)

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lol, lets not let Chinese of the hook here alright? Chinese billionaires been running their sweatshops and buying up foreign property since forever ago.

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      1 year ago

      Letting them off the hook for what though? Continuing the same behavior that the US used to have before the gains of the labor movement in the early to mid 20th century? That’s why these companies all outsourced. Opening relations with China in the 70s gave them acess to cheaper labor where before they had less ease.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, it takes a certain type of person to want to be a billionaire - that’s amount of money nobody could reasonably spend in a life time.

        I’m just taking issue with this propaganda of “evil amuricans” when nationality has nothing do with anything.

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    1 year ago

    Yep, my father (RIP) who was a staunch Republican was all about NAFTA back in the 90’s

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      1 year ago

      To be fair we also have a lot of THEIR debt as well, we mutually hold each other’s balls.

      China will never call for immediate repayment because we could do the same thus ruining both nations economies

      • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        That is true, with the huge market that is the US China is very much reliant on it to continue developing and growing at the rate it is dokng now, it’s not just the debts that would hold them back from it. But still, if one would cut out the other it would be China who’d recover a lot quicker.

        Also adding to the debt issue, our world is very much run on debts and anything that would try to disturb this delicate balance definitely would bring chaos. There is a reason the US went off the gold standard, couldn’t allow the French upset the power of the US dollar or set a precedent for others thus potentially killing the US’ economy.

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    1 year ago

    Sure glad I left reddit, so I can see the same five tweets get reposted on a free, decentralized platform.