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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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LynahFan said:
Wishful thinking..... If I thought for a second that this would happen, I'd wholeheartedly support the plan. :-O
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I know, right? I'm slowly getting there myself. On the one hand revolutions always hit the Poors the hardest. But on the other hand, I loathe the Poors. I just want to save the one smart one in every bunch of 100.
 
Kepler said:
Oh god I can just see that in France. It would make the Paris Commune look like CPAC.
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Want to see what happens in the UK and Canada in 5-10 years? Just watch what happens here now. The Conservative Party in the UK has already been overrun by Heritage Foundation hacks and culture war BS. Canada is quickly approaching the same.
 
psych said:
Only $2,500? Makes me think of the scene from Mad Men where the prostitute tells Roger that the prices may have changed but the menu is still the same. But for a night, $2,500? If the average attendee is worth $1,000,000,000, and the average American household is worth $100,000, that’s what, $0.25/night for the commoner? If only.
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I love this forum
 
My favorite are the idiots who are saying “but you pay more than 30% now!”

I did the quick math. My weekly withholding for everything including taxes is about 18%. The amount I would pay in sales tax on my rent alone would be about the same as my weekly withholding.
 
Swansong said:
Every single republican voter.
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Yet they simultaneously believe that the poor pay no taxes. Newt Gingrich popularized the lie that anyone who made less than $20,000 paid nothing. So I wrote my congressman and asked how I get my money back from the IRS since I obviously shouldn't have had to pay. Sadly, he responded that Gingrich wasn't being completely honest and I had paid the correct amount.
 
From what I'm hearing, Big Tech thinks they did some overhiring the last two years. It wouldn't surprise me if the first folks being targeted for layoffs at places like MS, Google, and Amazon are the remote workers who moved away from cities and/or refuse to accept even a partial return to an office setting. Seems like a great way to cut a bunch of those employees under the guise of recession worries.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
From what I'm hearing, Big Tech thinks they did some overhiring the last two years. It wouldn't surprise me if the first folks being targeted for layoffs at places like MS, Google, and Amazon are the remote workers who moved away from cities and/or refuse to accept even a partial return to an office setting. Seems like a great way to cut a bunch of those employees under the guise of recession worries.
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I've been reading that Amazon, specifically, has been "recalibrating" their review processes and are pushing hard to managers to review much more strictly. The goal, if this is remotely correct, is to use it to identify low performers for their RIF.
 
First decade was books
second was general retail
third was aws/prime

Im not sure anyone has a fuckin clue about the next decade. I think they thought Alexa and other Amazon peripherals were next. I'm confident the layoffs are pretty heavy in the Alexa department. Just a bloodbath. I wouldn't be surprised to see Alexa go the way of Cortana.
 
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