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Business, Economics, and Taxes 2: That's Why We Fight to Take the Means Back

"Security" at big box stores usually amounts to the greeter at the door acknowledging your presence. That and the cameras are enough to spook 80% of people even thinking about trying it. Social engineering at work.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Can't find anymore workers to underpay and flog for mandatory OT. Those jobs usually go to the undocumented and there are unreported accidents all the time, even the occasional death.
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Which remind me to rant about the fact that nobody breaking the law by hiring undocumented workers ever gets in trouble. They are the leading cause of the undocumented, since they create the reason to cross the border illegally. But nobody cares about them.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Can't find anymore workers to underpay and flog for mandatory OT. Those jobs usually go to the undocumented and there are unreported accidents all the time, even the occasional death.
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When I worked for the Tyson in Zeeland, my coworkers were either undocumented immigrants or local folks with almost no higher education and no future. Not surprising the local folks went overwhelmingly for Dump in 2016.
 
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Alternative facts.
 
Got my blood drawn this morning for my routine annual physical. Fully covered by my employer's insurance as preventative care, of course.

Watched the older, and I assume not yet Medicare-eligible person in front of me pay cash out of pocket for the same lab work. Healthcare in this country is so fucked up, particularly when we've got people in their 50s and early 60s who are increasingly no longer seen as "employable" by corporations (because they would expect a high salary or retraining them would cost too much), but can't afford insurance.
 
DJIA is up about 1000 points in the last 5 days. The disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street is breathtaking.

How could anybody be looking at the current economic environment and think, "this seems like a great time to expand"? Unless you are a liquor store or a for profit prison?
 
Kepler said:
DJIA is up about 1000 points in the last 5 days. The disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street is breathtaking.

How could anybody be looking at the current economic environment and think, "this seems like a great time to expand"? Unless you are a liquor store or a for profit prison?
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Funny, I just went to a brand new liquor store down the street from me to buy some wine for the Thanksgiving dinner.
 
In the nurseries, the Elementary Class Conscious¬
ness lesson was over, the voices were adapting future
demand to future industrial supply. “I do love fly¬
ing,” they whispered, “I do love flying, I do love
having new clothes, I do love . . .”

“Liberalism, of course, was dead of anthrax, but
all the same you couldn’t do things by force.”

“Not nearly so pneumatic as Lenina. Oh, not
nearly.”

“But old clothes are beastly,” continued the un¬
tiring whisper. “We always throw away old clothes.


Ending is better than mending, ending is better than
mending, ending is better . .


“Government’s an affair of sitting, not hitting.
You rule with the brains and the buttocks, never with
the fists. For example, there was the conscription of
consumption.”


“There, I’m ready,” said Lenina, but Fanny re¬
mained speechless and averted. “Let’s make peace,
Fanny darling.”


“Every man, woman and child compelled to
consume so much a year. In the interests of industry.
The sole result ...”


“Ending is better than mending. The more
stitches, the less riches; the more stitches . . .”


“One of these days,” said Fanny, with dismal
emphasis, “you’ll get into trouble.”


“Conscientious objection on an enormous scale.
Anything not to consume. Back to nature.”


“I do love flying, I do love flying.”

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You
can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

“Do I look all right?” Lenina asked. Her jacket
was made of bottle-green acetate cloth with green
viscose fur at the cuffs and collar.

“Eight hundred Simple Lifers were mowed down
by machine guns at Golders Green.”

“Ending is better than mending, ending is better
than mending.”

Green corduroy shorts and white viscose-woollen
stockings turned down below the knee.

“Then came the famous British Museum Mas¬
sacre. Two thousand culture fans gassed with
dichlorethyl sulphide.”

A green-and- white jockey cap shaded Lenina’s
eyes; her shoes were bright green and highly pol¬
ished.

“In the end,” said Mustapha Mond, “the Con¬
trollers realized that force was no good. The slower
but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, neo-
Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopasdia . .


And round her waist she wore a silver-mounted
green morocco-surrogate cartridge belt, bulging
(for Lenina was not a freemartin) with the regula¬
tion supply of contraceptives.


“The discoveries of Pfitzner and Kawaguchi were
at last made use of. An intensive propaganda against
viviparous reproduction ...”


“Perfect!” cried Fanny enthusiastically. She could
never resist Lenina’s charm for long. “And what a
perfectly sweet Malthusian belt!”


“Accompanied by a campaign against the Past;
by the closing of museums, the blowing up of his¬
torical monuments (luckily most of them had already
been destroyed during the Nine Years’ War); by the
suppression of all books published before A.F.150.”


“I simply must get one like it,” said Fanny.

“There were some things called the pyramids, for
example.”

“My old black-patent bandolier . .

“And a man called Shakespeare. You’ve never
heard of them of course.”

“It’s an absolute disgrace — that bandolier of
mine.”

“Such are the advantages of a really scientific
education.”

“The more stitches the less riches; the more
stitches the less ...”

“The introduction of Our Ford’s first T-
Model ...”

“I’ve had it nearly three months.”


“Chosen as the opening date of the new era.”

“Ending is better than mending; ending is
better . .

“There was a thing, as I’ve said before, called
Christianity.”

“Ending is better than mending.”

“The ethics and philosophy of under-consump¬
tion ...”

“I love new clothes, I love new clothes, I love . . .”

“So essential when there was under-production;
but in an age of machines and the fixation of
nitrogen — positively a crime against society.”
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