Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1. "We're focused on affordable energy in FL. That's why we signed this bill to triple the price of electricity so that only the rich can afford it. If you are of the deplorables class, please leave the state peacefully and surrender your money on your way out." - Ron
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  2.  @ttopero  It's really the same argument though. No means no and it's their land they shouldn't be forced to sell it to some billionaire. And you cannot collude to keep your own stuff. This is pure bully/lawfare. It's oligarchy rule.
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  3. Sounds more like literally than metaphorically. lol
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  4. Howard Schultz should be in prison. It's insane that there are no laws to hold these criminals accountable for breaking the law and blatantly lying when saying they didn't think they were legally allowed to give their employees a raise.
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  5. This whole twitter debacle has been hilarious. These drug companies are pure evil.
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  6. I work for one of these monster health insurance companies and I see cancer patients denied claims all the time citing "not medically necessary" for radiation treatment. $100,000 bills for 8 months of treatments denied so the doctor/facility is just screwed. It's sickening. These companies are purposefully as inefficient as possible too cause it helps their bottom line if nobody can figure out how to appeal and if all the rules for every plan are as different and indecipherable as possible. And the appeal timeframe for the plans I see is only 6 months from the date of service and our timeframe for responding is literally 2 months and we go over that all the time, sometimes just never responding.
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  7. Cartels need to be put in prison! These people are committing crimes against humanity!
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  8. Everything that bastard ceo says sounds straight out of some dystopian nightmare movie. "And remember my dear workers, work will set you free!"
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  9. Dude is a literal supervillain! Actually... most supervillains are good people compared to Theil.
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  10. "Our purpose is to cut costs, and we do that by paying ourselves a billion dollars every year for just existing." Capitalism at it's finest. But of course it's the workers fault, how dare they demand things like wages and family time and health care, don't they realize they are my slaves?
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  11. "Only profits matter, people are more disposable than napkins." - Jeff Bezos
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  12. How many euphemisms can you fit into one corporate policy. You're a Partner, we are Separating... it's not you it's me.. wonder what the deal is for partners? Do they all split the profit from the store? Or does the CEO get 10,000 times what the workers do for less work? Regardless of why this person is being fired, they should NOT be doing it in a lobby in front of everyone while claiming to be protecting the privacy of other "partners".
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  13.  @kevlar7669  yeah how dare we pay less for better healthcare like every other country on earth! Damn government should leave giant corporations and billionaires alone, they have our best interests at heart!
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  14. How can you be a "temp" employee for 5+ years?! This should be illegal. All workers should get the same pay and benefits regardless of being temp or not and temp employment should be no more than like 2% of the workforce and for no longer than like 3 months.
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  15. My god this was a fantastic video! Also horrifying! Every time I hear anything about Theil it's absolutely horrific.
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  16. Dang! What a good colab. Second Thought and More Perfect Union are both great channels.
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  17. Threatening people with death or dispair and homelessness if they don't enslave themselves to billionaires for minimum wage is disgusting!
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  18. "This is not about cat videos" 🤣🤣that line killed me. Hope she gets in, good luck Washington!
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  19.  @ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr  Can't really be homeless in the countryside even if you could find a job. Where you going to stay? You'd be arrested immediately if you tried to pitch a tent in someones yard. How are you going to get to work? How are you going to get food if your job is 10 miles this way but all the food places are 10 miles that way? You've clearly given this zero thought. How are you going to take a shower? The countryside doesn't have gyms or shelters.
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  20. How is he not in prison? Our system is more than broken.
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  21. I guarantee this is going on in every industry. As we've already seen with rent and now food prices.
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  22. How dare working people have rights and representation! Those things are only for billionaires!
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  23.  @jamiestrang-guzman9174  He's made the post offices throw out perfectly functional equipment. His job is to self destruct the postal service. There were lots of clips and pics of this going around during covid where workers would be forced to throw away sorting machines and others under the guise of some nonsensical premise.
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  24. You should do a video on how to unionize. It kinda seems like an esoteric concept at this stage of capitalism.
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  25. Love Second Thought and More Perfect Union! What a great colab.
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  26.  @wirelessone2986  Both parties are right wing. Bill Clinton and Reagan were actually quite similar when you look at what they did in office.
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  27. Of course the minimum wage for kids (under 18) is only $4.25/hr.
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  28. Funny how they can keep increasing their dividend paying out billions to stockholders but heatlhcare for their own employees is not reasonable.
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  29. Great video! It's insane just how much control the Legion of Doom now has on our government.
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  30. This is horrific. An utterly dystopian nightmare. Medical care should not ever be for profit.
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  31. I knew this wasn't over, can always count on billionaires to treat people like expendable cogs.
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  32. Yeah and the turtleneck was bought at walmart too. Made in Cambodia by a child miner who had to pick up a third job to afford bread.
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  33.  @whazzat8015  Right cause there's definitely an extra 150 million good jobs just laying around in the US. 40% of all jobs pay less than $15/hr and many only offer part time work for the express purpose of not having to offer benefits.
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  34. Hell yeah! That's awesome! Hope more join in.
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  35. If corporations are people we need to start putting them in prison for criminal actions.
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  36.  @joefer5360  Sure but oil and sandwiches are of starkly different economic necessity. Oil is always destined to become a cartel if privately owned because the entire economy is reliant upon it. We need to diversify the energy sector, and preferably nationalize it, to reduce it's cartel-like influence upon society and our economy but at least with sandwiches we still have the option to eat something else. Although with all the consolidation and monopolies now workers don't really have much choice on where to work when 40% of all US jobs pay less than $15/hr and many are part-time.
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  37. If having healthcare isn't reasonable than certainly having villianaires isn't either. Nor CEO's that make $22 million for destroying a company and ruining lives.
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  38. Glad to hear the actors may strike too, I was just hoping for an update about the writers strike. We really just need a general strike, this entire country is unlivable.
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  39. How is it not illegal to require someone to work before their shift starts?! If you have to be there and be clocked in you should be getting paid. Period.
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  40.  @Tehnameless1  Because our tax dollars don't need to go to corporate executives, they already have almost ALL of the money.
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  41. Anybody still fooled by big oil propaganda is just a willful participant at this point.
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  42. It ain't just Dollar General, I've noticed this same thing at my local Kroger. If corporations are people than they can go to prison like people and the executives are the ones responsible! It's time to prosecute them and confiscate the executives shares to be sold to pay the communities and customers back the money that was stolen.
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  43. Yeah I'd bet my left leg that McCarthy is not going to pass it, probably won't even introduce it (unless of course he knows there's enough downvotes to kill it while making him look good).
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  44.  @Zero01k  But farmers can't fix their own problems if those problems are multinational corporations screwing everyone over and/or corrupting the farm bill aid. Telling everyone else to buzz off is only going to make it worse. (I'm not saying you need to do some specific type of farming like regen. agriculture or whatever, just that you aren't going to fix a problem that is much bigger than farming without cooperation from outside the farming community.) And it doesn't help that the west is entirely running out of water while the Saudis grow massive amounts of alfalfa in and around AZ sucking up what little water we have left and nobody stops them. That's impacting everyone farmer or not when there's not enough water to take a shower.
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  45. yes because 24k a year allows for such extravagant spending... If only everyone were as smart as you.
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  46.  @susanperry4177  No lol. Some of these drugs have 10,000% profit margins. (They are not all that high but still, there's a reason for big pharma's reputation and it is most certainly legitimate.)
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  47. This is horrifying. Obviously talking to an incomprehensible robot is going to hurt, not help, people experiencing a mental health crisis.
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  48. The existence of more money does not in itself cause inflation. Example: If I printed 10 trillion dollars and kept it all to myself or pumped it into some investment like the stock market or gold then that money is not actually in circulation and therefore has no ability to drive up prices of unrelated things.
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  49. Yeah well said! This is a huge issue!
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  50. They are already charging insane interest rates on credit card balances so charging another "late fee" on top is just a way to scam people. I mean most credit card interest rates are between 17-25% and if you have bad credit they can be even worse!
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  51. Yeah stock buybacks and dividends should be illegal, if they are making too much money and don't know what to do with it they should give it to their employees.
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  52. Another great video! Google is trying hard to crush the channel but you guys keep putting out great work.
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  53. People still have to eat, even if they don't have the money currently. And our society literally runs on debt. Do you own a home? Did you pay for it with cash? If not then why are you spending money you don't have? What about your car? Maybe your employer is doing some "corporate restructuring" and you got fired for no reason and can't find a job now because they were all shipped to China. Now you got no health insurance either, what if you got sick? Should you not get cancer treatment because you don't have the money?
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  54. Yeah, many older people retired and some died of covid or other things, and there are simply not as many young people to replace them since the old boomer generation is like twice as big as the millennials. The decline in population numbers was always going to catch up but covid made it catch up all at once. Plus the job numbers are bs. Most companies are always "hiring" but never actually hire people, many places just always leave job listings up even if they aren't actually hiring. Some just have quotas for things like low wage job turnover rates which make it seem like they are creating new jobs. And the unemployment numbers are bs too since they literally only count people that are receiving unemployment benefits which obviously most people who got let go aren't able to collect. All the economic numbers are total bs created by bankers to further their control over the population. Just look at how inflation is calculated after they changed it back in the 80's (I think it was the 80's), makes no sense now. They can literally substitute cheaper things that are not even related to make inflation look lower.
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  55. These financial mobsters along with their sycophants in government have systematically corrupted and destroyed every single facet of life that made America in the first place. The mob didn't go away, they simple realized that they could operate legally and make more money with less risk.
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  56. They ain't appealing to us as consumers and peasants. They just need to make it compelling for "investors".
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  57.  @vshah1010  Used games DO have a high profit margin. Stop defending our overlords.
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  58.  @pajeetsingh  They can pump as much water out of the ground (and therefore underground aquifers) as they want without having to pay for it. And those aquifers take tens of thousands of years to refill and are draining quickly.
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  59. This is the stuff people actually care about. Working for one of the biggest "defense" contractors in the world and only making $13.50 is just criminal.
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  60. We live under insanity.
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  61. I really don't understand the need billionaires have for making everyone else suffer and the world a worse place. You're already a billionaire, can't you just buy another yacht and go have fun and leave society alone?
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  62.  @ggjr61  Not if everybody has the same government insurance. The politicians would never get rid of their own coverage even to spite the poor.
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  63. Maybe try taxing their dividends as well (although that would probably have to be a federal thing). They make an extra 100 billion and still raise the price just cause they can.
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  64. Hospitals are for-profit too, fyi, arguably more ruthless considering the purposely low levels of nurses kept employed to "cut costs".
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  65. You must have missed the part about record margins. That's a non-debatable fact for you. Supply chain price increases are temporary and even if they weren't there still the record margins.... you don't get increased/record margins without increasing prices beyond what your cost of production are.
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  66.  @brucefrykman8295  Ah yes, the common republican line of "if everything were more expensive it would be cheaper".
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  67. Yeah, I try to sign up for a few things as possible now because once I signed up for a subscription service called Thrive and not only was it more difficult than necessary to end the subscription but they also decided to reactivate my subscription without my knowledge or permission months later and resumed billing me, and then it's "sorry we will cancel it again within 60 days and hopefully you will get a refund". And that was easy compared to closing a bank account. I once tried to close a Bank of America account cause all their bank locations left the whole state basically and it was a repeating nightmare, like groundhog day. I had to physically go in and reclose it 3 times and they kept telling me I had fees each time since I didn't have the minimum balance. Yeah you SOB's that cause I already closed it three F'ing times! You basically have to call your credit card company and tell them your card was stolen if you want to get out of a subscription nowadays.
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  68. Yes you are right. Lets just give all our money to billionaires and hope they are benevolent enough to allow us to live.
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  69. If there are no penalties for union busing then it's not really illegal is it? There are never any consequences for corporations.
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  70. Yeah BOA are thieves. I tried to close my account there a few years ago because all the BOA's in the area were closing. I went in closed the account, paid the closing fee and left. Then I got a bill in the mail saying I was being charged fees for not keeping enough money in my account. So I went back, complained, closed the account again and had to pay the fees. Then I got another fucking letter saying I owed more for not having money in the account. Then I had to go back again and yell at them until they waived the fees and actually closed the account. Fuck banks!
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  71.  @chaserofthelight1737  I believe he ended up getting 9 billion (or close to it) from the government cause he cried hard enough.
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  72. United Corporations of America strike again.
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  73. Great video! Man, this channel gets crushed by the algorithm, must be on the youtube blacklist for supporting workers.
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  74. This would be like asking Trump to not commit fraud, or even worse, go outside without his orange makeup. You know it ain't gunna happen.
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  75. Dang, we're right back in 1908 fighting for basic human rights while the capitalists buy their 14th yacht and couldn't count their money in a lifetime.
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  76. Remember that Kellogs owns like 30 other brands as well. They've made it so that boycotting them takes a lot of homework and dedication. It's a hidden monopoly.
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  77.  @monsieurdorgat6864  It's not always about physically winning. Public perception and international attention go a long way towards causes. And especially if you can destabilize things in a way that scares capital (and foreign capital) away, that would change everything overnight. These are some of the major goals that contributed to ending apartheid in South Africa in the 90's.
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  78. We all need the union days to come back otherwise we are toast as a country. It'll look like Arcane or something.
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  79. When are these ceo's and executives going to face criminal charges for their criminal actions?
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  80. They need this to be for both state and federal all in one! Sick of being held hostage by big business!
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  81. Without any criminal charges there is no incentive for Kroger to accurately pay their workers. Why pay them what they are owed when you can just cheat them and then make THEM do the extra work of sorting it out every week. This is exactly how health insurance works too. A significant number of claims are denied due to nonsense or "system errors" and then it's up to the individual or the doctor to catch it and go through the work of appealing (or double or triple appealing) within the tiny timeframe allowed in order to actually get it paid correctly. Also the insurance company can take 30-60 days to process a claim so if the timeframe is only 6 months and you have to get it reprocessed and appeal like 4 times to get it right.... well, you betting be on it the day it comes back cause the insurance company just be sitting on it running out the clock.
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  82. Love More Perfect Union!
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  83. Shoplifting $5 worth of food for your baby and you go to jail and get a record. Steal millions from your own employees and you get praised and rewarded for "saving" the company money on it's balance sheet.
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  84. This should be a Netflix show. Villains of the US.
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  85. Yeah Milton Friedman was evil.
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  86. It's criminal what these app owners are doing.
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  87. Getting run over by a plane.... okay found a new worst way to die I guess.
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  88. Exactly!
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  89. The US is an absolute dystopian hellhole.
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  90. Letting foreign government kill American journalists is Trumps version of America first. That's a shocking response even for Trump to admit. Wow.
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  91. The United Corporations of America need to be stopped.
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  92.  @fridajaspers6066  He's obviously being satirical.
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  93. That's such a good book. I'm reading it right now actually but I'm only about half way through so far.
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  94. How is it not illegal to charge your employees to work there? This is some straight up indentured servitude stuff. $30/paycheck for food even if you don't order or eat there?!!!!!
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  95. Private Equity is a scourge on the earth. A virus worse than the Black Death.
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  96. Yes but we don't have a democracy we have an oligarchy. You have to win from within in this system that's why besides Bernie Sanders there isn't a single independent candidate anywhere with any power to affect change.
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  97. Even Sports Illustrated went under. If hot girls in bikinis aren't even profitable something is wrong. It is terrifying how much power facebook and google have over the curation and dictation of what information we are allowed to see and who is allowed to have a voice.
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  98. These greedy corporations make more and more each year and expect to pay their workers less and cut all their benefits and take away their lives?! These executives deserve the French resolution.
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  99. Didn't there used to be a law against cruel and unusual punishment? One would think killing 30,000 people a year by dangling the cure in front of their faces and saying they can't afford to live is pretty cruel. Perhaps not unusual though.
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  100. Artists should start a Spotify boycott and create their own platform!
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  101. Suing and anti-trust lawsuits for NOT selling your own family land!?!?! That's insane!
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  102. Hope she wins! We need someone fighting against fascist theocratic rule!
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  103.  @james_chatman  But... corporations literally admitted it. And they are making record profits and have record margins. Paying people more should decrease margins so.... Pay increase of 3-4%, inflation of 7% with record margins and profits.... yeah. Your "studies" are not adding up here. This is Capitalism 101 come on, keep up dude.
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  104.  @oddward5759  You really think our benevolent corporations are going to reduce prices when supply chain issues decrease? Also, printing money doesn't necessarily result in inflation. Only the circulating currency matters for that and 99% of all that printed cash is going straight into the stock market (or just to rich people pockets) so companies can do stock buybacks and inflate their ceo's bank balance which just sits there collecting more cash. Money at the top stays at the top and never trickles down as they claim it will.
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  105. Ah the great American Free Market system. You pay for the drugs creation then I sell it back to you at whatever price I want and you don't get a say. If you want to live you pay it. - Big Pharma It's great that Biden got something done, buy why do so little? Only 10 drugs and only for Medicare patients. Why not just use the Bayh Dole act and demand big pharma reduce prices to fair costs or take their drug patents and give them to other companies that will? It's great that he's doing something but also infuriating that it's always half measures and crumbs. (Better than republicans though who would demand we pay double instead of less so the poor corporations and billionaires can survive on their measly yachts the size of manhattan.)
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  106. Trump saying "the era of global freeloading and taking advantage of the US is over" is the most insane statement ever.
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  107. Well said as always!
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  108. Ah yes, all those poor people with their ....$100k paychecks and those overpaid public school teachers. So rich they can't afford food! And definitely not 30 million people without health insurance. Not in this, almost exactly equal, society.
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  109. Trump outright admits that he is bought and paid for by billionaires and his idiot supporters still think he's going to drain the swamp and fight for them. It's amazing we even have a single Bernie Sanders in a country so dominated by an oligarchy like this. The supreme court needs to be charged with quid pro quo. Clarence Thomas has been taking billionaire bribes since before I was even born.
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  110. True, but that wouldn't be the renewable sector doing to kilowatt price gouging, it would be the utility companies that are mostly monopolies in their respective areas. I live in MI and there are no options for energy, you only have 1 possible company.
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  111. Now we are literally just paying them to gas us to death like it's WWI.
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  112. It's that old saying "give a man a gun and he'll rob a bank, give a man a bank and he'll rob the world".
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  113. These companies are evil!
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  114. Most big companies now spend more on stock buybacks than they do for pay for literally all of their employees combined. Especially the oil and railroad companies.
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  115. Ronald Reagan was the literal devil. I can't believe how many people fell for such an obvious fraud and stupid speech. I guess people were just as dumb back then as they are now. It's insane to think that humanity was able to build spaceships but the idea of being able to go to the doctor when you are sick was too much to bear.
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  116. This is the way billionaires want it. Look at Amazon infiltrating schools with corporate propaganda. "We'll give you a small amount of funding if you teach kids what we want." They want everyone on the brink of destitution so that they can come in a dictate the rules of your survival!
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  117. Quoting Peter Thiel is a sure sign that someone is on the Dark side.
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  118. So the economy was doing nicely and this guy says "you know what's missing here? .... some human sacrifice."
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  119. They charge admission because poor people can't pay it and rich people love shelling out their "couch change" to keep us poors out of their sight. It's a barrier they can afford and we cannot. Like a gated community.
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  120. She's pure evil.
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  121. The Federalist Society should be labeled a terrorist organization.
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  122. This is beyond absurd. Smart home fees and air filter subscriptions? What's next toilet flushing fees? Oh yup, that's the water bill plus fee.
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  123. Glad unions are electing good people and making some progress again. Cheers to the dominoes falling!
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  124. De-Joy is the perfect name for the guy that only obtains satisfaction by making everyone elses life a living hell. Sadistic POS.
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  125. "Share your own blankets slaves, cause mine is made of solid gold and diamonds and I ain't sharing it with you!" - Howard Schultz
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  126. Non-competes are toxic nonsense by fascistic employers to create a population of indentured servants instead of a competitive market system.
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  127. Yeah but when you can't afford their price-fixed necessities to feed your family remember that it's your fault for being lazy and bootstraps and all that other junk.
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  128. What a hell-hole of a country we live in. Mother Teresa would love it. Poor people, ripe for conversion, dying everywhere of preventable illness while only a few work tirelessly to actually help people. (Mother Teresa was evil look it up. She ushered countless people to their death because it's easier to convert someone about to die.)
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  129. Corporations are evil.
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  130. Have you done an investigation on Epipen prices? Have those come down at all since Joe Manchin's big pharma CEO daughter raised them like 10,000%?
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  131. Buying them up sight unseen huh? We should scam wallstreet by registering a plot of land the size of a monopoly board and putting a miniature neighborhood on it to sell them all one at a time for the price of a real house. But we will sell them under an LLC and transfer the money to our "shareholders" and declare bankruptcy as soon as wallstreet tries to sue us.
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  132. Musk is literally a supervillain. Not even trying to hide his evil anymore.
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  133. So our entire society is shackled to the whims of billionaire oil execs. Everything runs/depends on oil. Energy to power your phone, computer, lights, transportation of food, production of food... everything. And they can just say "we quadruple price now, you pay me" and republicans still have the gull to say that the free market will fix everything and it's Biden's fault because he tried to spend money on alternative energy sources to diversify our energy sector thereby creating competition and more dependable energy and prices and because he canceled a pipeline that didn't exist and that wouldn't have created anymore oil in the first place because it's a pipe and not production...
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  134. Kamala better keep her!
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  135.  @cbdevidaljk1  He has actually said both. It's in his policy. Biden increased the overtime pay to workers making up to $58k/year but Trump wants to decrease it again back down to only $35k/year so that anyone who makes over 35k would not qualify. (This is for white collar professionals that are salary.) Trump also said he wants to eliminate taxes on overtime and tips but I can 100% guarantee he will not do that. And he's been bragging about not paying people overtime that was owed so.... yeah.
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  136. Absolutely sickening!
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  137. This is horrifying!
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  138.  @kevinbl4836  It's not a risk when they can just write off any loss for taxes and get bailouts anything they gamble too much and crash the economy.
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  139.  @BeachCity  Contractors are just middle men scamming everyone. It's not a "hole in the story", it was literally pointed out in the video. Keep licking that boot clean though, maybe someday you'll be upgraded to the asshole.
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  140. Don't worry, Trump and Musk will root out all the fraud and waste 🙄
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  141. These "job creators" wanna fire everyone and just take our money.
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  142. I'd love to get my hands around the necks of these ceos. "work will set you free" is certainly their moto.
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  143. Jesus Christ! Those cops deserve some damn justice, I can't imagine having 5 people beating me up and breaking my bones and still having the frame of mind to not start swinging and stabbing those bastards in self defense. Cops are even worse than the corporations!
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  144. Why is the CEO not in prison?! He killed almost 600 people and the DOJ gave him a bargain and said if he didn't keep it he would be prosecuted for murder. He didn't keep it and still nothing except bonuses.
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  145. They literally want to paywall elementary school while controlling what they learn. Pure insanity and yet people will continue to vote for these civilization destroyers.
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  146. Pete Budigudge worked for McKinsey? Yeah, that makes sense he's pretty terrible and loves to deflect and cover up massive corporate crimes like the intentional chemical nuking of East Palestine Ohio.
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  147. They are turning every second/thing in our lives into paywalled luxury goods. Pretty soon my toilet is going to function off a subscription model and charge me a "convenience" fee. I remember buying concert tickets 15-20 years ago before they had them on the internet. You'd have to drive there, took me 35 minutes to the closest ticketmaster, and they still charged the convenience fee. Everything is a scam now. Age of the robber barons II.
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  148. Milton Friedman was like a little evil goblin. He's probably responsible for as many deaths as Hitler at this point.
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  149. Howard Schultz using the Holocaust to justify his abuse and oppression of his employees is beyond disgusting! Fuc$ that monster!
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  150. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think the taxpayer owns it. That's communism lol. I'm pretty sure they said the taxpayers subsidized it to court some company to build the plant there. Like how the Chips and Sciences act gives massive subsidies to chip makers to build plants in the US. Taxpayers don't own the plants, we just pay for 30% or 50% or whatever amount is agreed to to build it or waive taxes on it for 10 years.
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  151. These people are disgusting and belong at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean with cement feet!!!
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  152. lol what?
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  153.  An_Equal  Vivek is literally a big pharma billionaire and you think he's NOT corrupt or susceptible to lobbying?!?! And RFK's brains are made of more gravel than his voice.
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  154. Excellent video!
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  155. Homes should not be investment opportunities. Decomodify housing!
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  156.  @chrisgg80  republicans are literally the ones defunding disaster relief and FEMA and fear mongering about FEMA workers coming to trans your pets or some nonsense. NC senate, house and supreme court are all republican and they just recently passed a bill to strip the dem governor of all power. No matter how you view it it is definitely not a dem controlled state.
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  157. They want to crash the economy so that millions of people lose their jobs while also requiring work requirements for basic healthcare. Republicans are the definition of evil.
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  158. JP Morgan is great but you know, they'd be better if they did more scams and fraud. - crypto people
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  159. Strike! Get those wages back. Make those fat cats pay!
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  160. May starbucks and their executives and CEO rot in hell.
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  161. Correction: Rivian is NOT the 3rd most valuable automaker in the world. It's not even the 3rd most valuable EV company in the world. Other than that great video!
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  162. Everyday there a new way billionaires are stealing our money.
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  163. I unfortunately work for a big health insurance company and I see patients claims denied all the time for either no reason or just obviously incorrect things. I've seen people have their radiation treatment denied when they are diagnosed with cancer. It's pure evil. And there is no recourse because the appeal just sends it through the same broken system to spit it back out denying for the same incorrect reason. And many of these systems are designed to deny as many claims as possible and justify it by saying "well they can appeal and get it corrected". But often the appeal process is very bureaucratic and most people don't bother (or don't have the time) to put hours of work into each claim that should literally be done for them as that's kinda the point of having health insurance to begin with. It's literally a full time job (probably even more) to continually call about insurance claims and try to understand the systems. And of course people call in angry or worse if they have a family member that's in a coma or dying and you can't discuss their info and they are having treatment denied because the insurance company wouldn't approve the prior authorization. And I don't blame the angry people at all, but I also got no power to help. I'm just paid crap wages to be a piñata.
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  164. Raise hell Billy!
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  165. I feel like the recent VP pick backs this up as well, strategically picked to take more votes from Biden. I absolutely despise Biden for using my tax money to fund genocide but I also acknowledge that Trump wants to expand that and make it even worse than it is. We are in a truly fucked place right now. At least Biden is reviving antitrust laws and doing some good bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US though.
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  166. Another great video, never see any of this in mainstream "news".
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  167. It's because the right wing Supreme Court ruled that bribery is legal paving the way for the total corporate capture of government.
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  168.  @RichardDuncan-ju1xk  Owning a business is NOT a risk. You clearly have no idea how courts or bankruptcy works. As a business owner if your business fails or goes bankrupt you are not out any money, you still pay yourself and keep all your money. And nobody starts a business with the money they saved up working. That would never be enough. To start a business you raise capital. Meaning to sweet talk rich people and take loans out in the name of the business. Not personal loans in your own name. Just google the words: bank or venture capital. Nobody is taking a risk. None of these rich people took risk. If Amazon went under tomorrow Jeff Bezos would still be rich. Even when J&J was found to have poisoned millions of people and caused (at minimum) tens of thousands of proven cases of cancer, not only is the business doing better than ever but also the owners are richer than ever. They did the Texas two step and just spun off the product that caused the cancer (baby powder) into a "new" business that immediately declared bankruptcy and avoided all liability and everyone that died or is still dealing with cancer was left with nothing and no way to hold them accountable.
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  169.  @TheRevies  Well said!
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  170. We're headed right back to jailing people who speak out against religion or fascism. Galileo would die imprisoned all over again.
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  171. @1:32 - wtf there's a Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport?! What a disgraceful name to put on a building in which all the air traffic controllers were fired by said man for striking.
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  172. The US was founded on letting corporations and oligarchs run everything with zero consequences or interference from pesky things like workers/human rights.
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  173. Landlords are leeches.
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  174. Rick Scott has got to have the most punchable face I've ever seen.
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  175. This is literally just indentured servitude. Slavery.
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  176. Of course the Chamber of Commerce and every other fascist rightwing business organisation have already announced lawsuits to block this. Hopefully they don't succeed. Biden needs to double or triple the FTC's budget stat, they will never have a change to keep up with all the anti-competitive and monopoly behaviour we are seeing in the US today.
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  177. This sounds fantastic, I hope to god it passes!
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  178. Allowing something as vital as utilities to be owned and controlled by shareholders, let alone foreign governments is insane. How is this not a major national security issue? But tictok gets a congressional hearing?! Some guy that says he once knew a guy that knew a guy that said aliens were real gets a congressional hearing?!?!
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  179.  @thomaspeng6805  Yes, it literally is part owned by Amazon.
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  180. Buybacks should be illegal. You can tell they should be illegal because Kevin McCarthy shook his head when biden mentioned they were bad.
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  181. This is sickening. We need a general strike until the US isn't an absolute fascist monster pit.
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  182. Well said!
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  183. Republicans are vile monsters!
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  184. This is 100% spot on!
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  185. The way the right is engineering a full-scale theocratic authoritarian takeover of the entire country and all our institutions is staggering and horrifying. Especially the supreme court. They are not ever using real cases with legal standing, they are just taking straight bribes from fascists and then making cases up as they go and there's no consequences for their corruption or tyranny.
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  186. These consulting firms are pure evil.
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  187. What kind of sick world do we live in where these monsters think starving children is a good thing! And then making them work in coal mines and slaughter houses on top of that! My gosh, if there's ever been a good time for a revolution....
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  188. It's more surprising if any US corporation does not use slave labor at this point. We need to pass some basic human rights laws and stop trusting billionaires to have morals.
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  189. Our "health care" system is disgusting! On another note, I feel like a video (or a series even) on consulting firms like McKinsey would make for a great topic as well. These firms seem almost unknown to the average American but are real power brokers and have massive influence in society, then help lay the basis for our entire way of culture/thought so deeply that we literally cannot think outside the box they have drawn in many cases.
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  190. Dang, this would be awesome! I hope they get everything they are asking for. We really just need a general strike.
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  191. You found some smart kids to interview, gives some hope for the future. All billionaires are evil.
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  192. These companies give away exorbitant sums of money to wall street in the form of dividends. Warren Buffett alone makes $1 billion a year just from owning chevron stock in dividends. And he literally does not have to work a day in his life. They literally charge the American people 1,000% markup just to give money to themselves for free. It's essentially a ponzi scheme and we are all at the bottom.
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  193. I used to work at a mall in which many of the stores had non-competes for literally every job. Folding sweaters is not a trade secret! I just read a story about Jimmy Johns forcing workers to sign these barring them from working basically anywhere in the US for any company that makes any revenue via sandwich sales.
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  194. I mean installing "unalive" nets around their factories to catch workers trying to jump off and end their miserable existence was my first clue that Apple wasn't exactly a benevolent company. And paying their workers dog food wages while announcing another $110 billion (on top of the stock buybacks they are already doing) plus the billions in dividends while not even willing to negotiate a 2% raise for workers.... yep, they just pure evil with a nice shiny coating. Like a turd wrapped in gold foil. You open it up and it's still a turd.
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  195. The US economy is just one giant mafia scheme now. So insane.
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  196. About time we get some rail. But I hope most of them will be public and not private for-profit price gougers. $40-80/person for a one-way ticket while not even leaving the state is way outta my price range.
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  197. You can if that money goes straight to the top 1% and never trickles down. Only money that actually circulates can cause inflation. If Jeff Bezos gets another trillion dollars from the government that won't cause inflation cause it just sits at the top. Example: If I was allowed to print money and printed 100 trillion dollars and put all of that money into gold bars it would not cause inflation. It would inflate the price of gold of course but not anything else, even though I printed 100 trillion dollars. Now, if I used that money to buy goods and services and those people who got paid did the same and on and on, then it could lead to inflation.
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  198. Yep, it's every industry it seems. Doesn't matter where you work, you're probably getting shafted.
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  199. Wow, pure evil!
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  200.  @feha92  Yes, fisherMEN not fisherMAN. Don't purposely misinterpret OP's words.
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  201. Hell yeah!
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  202. Great video always!
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  203. Jim Cramer should get a colonoscopy from Vlad the Impaler.
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  204. They also want the government to buy it and pensions and 401k's so they can get a sweet bailout when it crashes the economy.
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  205. Fuck these piece of shit billionaires, #generalstrike until they are all meet their demise or give us our money back.
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  206. Is there anything billionaires don't want to ruin?
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  207. Seems to be a pattern with these big companies. If any store votes to unionize they either close it, fire everyone or make their lives hell but also raise everyone else wages and benefits to disincentivize unionizing. So still a win for every other store. The NLRB really needs to be given some teeth and if a company refuses to negotiate or pulls illegal stunts the workers asks should just be automatically given and enforced and every fine on the company should be as high as their quarterly dividend payments or stock buybacks.
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  208. Wow, the board of Open AI is the legion of doom.
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  209. So where did all that money go then? I'm assuming executive bonuses and stock buybacks probably. Where's Mayor Pete? Picking his nose, doing nothing as he lets the airlines get away with straight up fraud selling tickets for flights they know will never fly. And Biden crushing the rail strike when he could have just given them what they asked for... we are headed for bad times, this kinda shit is going to get republicans elected again and then they are going to proceed to turn us further into a dystopian corporate hellscape.
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  210. "Big Labor is evil" ... lol. What? The corporate propaganda is ridiculous. Hopefully this happens. We need to start moving things back towards empowering people instead of just billionaires before fascism takes us all out.
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  211. Corporations have betrayed the nation and workers. Jobs used to have pensions and healthcare for life (very good coverage too) if you put in your time, now they all pay minimum wage and only offer part time and no healthcare or expensive healthcare with 10k deductibles and we pay everything ourselves. It's evil. Plus the workers taxes build half the stadiums these days while the owners get free millions and more tax breaks on top of that, again paid for by the workers of course.
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  212. fire people with cancer so they lose their healthcare and don't cost you money..... classic capitalist move. At what point do we draw the line between freedom and slavery? Remember their moto "work will set you free".
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  213. Second Thought is fantastic! These people and companies that steal water are pure evil, like Nestle!
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  214. Second Thought is fantastic, great video
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  215. If a job doesn't pay enough to survive it should not exist.
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  216. Capitalism ruins everything.
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  217. That's the whole point. If they can thoroughly destroy a community then they can come back 20 years later and pay minimum wage and pretend to be heros while cutting fair paying jobs elsewhere. And then repeat the cycle again.
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  218. This is exactly why I stopped buying holocaust victims. Despicable industry from start to finish.
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  219. The United Corporations of America only cares about stealing your money and making you a slave and you have no right to object anymore.
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  220. It's all Orwellian nonsense doublespeak with big corps. Now get back to work slave.. I mean.. valued partner.
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  221. Wow screw Amazon! "But if you carpool you might be eligible for UP TO $5 a day reimbursement" .... uh,... what the fuck? I hope Bezos's plane crashes so that all Amazon employees can empty their piss bottles on his grave.
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  222. Dang, great video! Well said!
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  223. Sadly we all know the answer. No president is going to use the Bayh-Dole act. Plus, as pointed out by many including Katie Porter in Congress to their faces, big pharma companies don't really spend much at all on research and development. Especially in comparison to the fortunes they spend on executive bonuses, dividends and stock buybacks which are a WAY larger percent of the budget.
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  224. When you buyback your own stock you've clearly run out of ideas about how to make or grow a successful business.
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  225. It's good to see this channel growing! For a while it was so suppressed by google I'd never see a video unless I physically searched for the channel.
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  226. Kennedy really does represent the middle of both parties. Both corporate controlled and conspiracy minded.
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  227.  @mattportnoyTLV  Inflation is just corporations pitching a narrative to the media to justify their greed and then blaming someone else such as the president. This has not changed under any president in the last 40 years.
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  228. What a piece of garbage! "We are only here to support disaster capitalism and profit. Not help people or prevent catastrophes." Real telling.
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  229. Nailed it!
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  230. This is the same thing Mark Zuckerberg is doing to natives in Hawaii to steal their land for his compound.
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  231. Capitalism has reached a point where the capitalists are literally willing to spend MORE money just to deprive the workers of something as simple as grass. First rule of capitalism: Doesn't matter what the workers want, the answer must always be NO!
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  232. Contracting has gotten way out of control too. Everything is layers upon layers of contracting now. How many middle-men do we need? Contracted employees should get the say pay and benefits by law as the original company furthest up the chain doing the hiring! No more of this "child slave labor is okay as long as it's contracted out"!
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  233.  @lopoa126  Except with housing you can still find the house as it would be advertised and physically exists on a street whereas with jobs, many are gatekept by these predatory hiring agencies thereby preventing anyone not paying the agent from finding the job in the first place.
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