Comments by "Jim Bridger" (@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1. that guy is a true american hero. if you think you're too good to hold a plunger, then you don't deserve to be in charge of anyone.
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  2. WHY ARE WE STILL ALLOWING GIANT MERGERS! If you already have more than 10% of the market, or are publicly traded, or are worth over 500m, you should be completely disqualified from all mergers and acquisitions.
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  3. remember when you were a kid and you thought hospitals, ERs and ambulances were public services, not privately run corporations? good times...
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  4. MAKE PRICE FIXING ILLEGAL AGAIN
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  5. we don't, but it helps rich people make more money
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  6. why would a company accept responsibility for anything? they shouldn't be expected to, they should be made to.
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  7. Businesses should not be allowed to own residential property. Houses are for humans, they should be owned by humans.
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  8. holy shit, they make you pay to advertise or your game is guaranteed to fail, plus they steal 70%?!?! that should just be straight up illegal, especially in a kids game.
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  9. yeah he clearly has 0 idea what the actual median american is
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  10. People wouldn't donate money to campaigns if it didn't have an influence over the results. But they do, therefore it does. Which means our country is not a democracy, it is not controlled by democracy, it is controlled by money.
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  11. lets not blame the buttons. it's the legal system that's broken. it shouldn't be possible for them to take away your rights through a contract. you can't make a legal contract that makes murder legal. so why can they make a contract which makes taking away your right to justice or privacy legal?
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  12. you know your justice system is broken when people try to convince you to plead guilty to a crime you didn't commit because you're going to lose anyway
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  13. why is the government actually working this year
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  14. this is the revolution. a revolution happens when it makes a corporation more money, not when it makes products better for consumers.
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  15. some are, just gotta be rich
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  16. the main problem with AI writers is that execs have already proven they dont care about writing and are terrible at telling good from bad. so they wont even be able to tell the difference between a crappy AI script and a great handwritten one. so not only will there be less jobs for writers, the writing for every show and movie will get even worse than they already are (which is pretty bad most of the time).
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  17. elon only cares about other people using his ai training data, because he sees that it has value. that's why he made the api paid only. he does not care about protecting his users, he just wants the exclusive rights to take advantage of them himself
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  18. they love using it, not contributing to it. they're like people who go to potlucks but dont bring anything.
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  19. what we need to realize is that when corporations have complete control over the market, the market is just as far from being free as it would be if the government controlled everything. a fair market requires heavy regulation to keep things fair and prevent manipulation.
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  20. "economy" is another word for the wallets of the wealthy. it has nothing to do with the lives of most americans.
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  21. it's pretty crazy, a business model where the customers do all the work for free, and you keep all the money they generate! oh wait, that's every single social media website... we seriously need to rethink the internet so people get to keep the money they earn and it doesn't all just go to a megacorporation who uses it to pay shareholders instead of improving the platform.
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  22. your healthcare is their wealthcare
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  23. i think it would be the most impactful change we could make to not only our democratic system, but our entirely country. fixing this would allow us to fix a lot more.
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  24. will that really help? they want to play the games all their friends are playing. how about you just teach them not to work for free, and don't give them robux
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  25. that's always been the case for delivery drivers too. it's an okay wage until you factor in how you're degrading your car, then it's probably less than minimum wage. and you definitely arent making enough to buy a new car.
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  26. how about fucking 0? there should be no such thing as rental companies. houses should be owned by humans.
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  27. who would have thought a country built on genocide and slavery could be this heartless
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  28. the only reason it still is is because it makes it harder to quit, which makes it easier to abuse employees and underpay them
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  29. that's every corporation in america
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  30. our "democracy" has been a joke from the start. we've always done as much as we can to take away voting rights or the efficacy of voting from as many people as possible.
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  31. capitalism demands everything that can be commoditized be commoditized
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  32. if they actually cared about "price control" then they'd oppose the corporation that's literally controlling the price. just because it's not the government doing it doesn't mean it's not harmful.
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  33. finally people are starting to see who the real enemies of the people are
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  34. doesn't matter which party, if you vote against a working class person, you are voting against yourself.
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  35. this is capitalism. it allows business to be created and survive on just capital, when they are not actually a profitable business. they are then able to grow faster than a real company would, which means their value goes up, which is how the investors make money. this continues until they run all the real businesses that cant compete and capture the market. then they cash in and enshittify. capitilism is not a fair system that rewards good business, it's just a tool for wealthy people to abuse our economy and extract money from the poor and extinguish small business, without having to have good useful products that can actually compete.
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  36. he's never heard of a smaller number
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  37. this
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  38. we're too busy focusing on undoing what the last president did, and arguing about whether we should regulate people's personal decisions
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  39. just like houses, companies shouldn't be able to own them at all. individuals only.
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  40. housing.
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  41. and universal health care. you shouldn't be trapped at a job just because you're afraid to lose the ability to see a doctor
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  42. that shit needs to go yesterday.
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  43.  @youraftermyrobotbee  that's fine. everything should cost more and last longer. getting cheap crap that breaks quickly is just scam, you end up paying more over time.
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  44. that is and always was the goal for every capitalist.
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  45. yeah we really need a new department that focuses solely on consumer food. the FDA and USDA do not cut it.
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  46. it does lots of good for the billionaire shareholders and ceo's
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  47. yeah we need that more than anything in america right now
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  48. over-capitalism is the goal of capitalism, not a flaw, it's the point.
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  49. amen
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  50. they should stop trying to live in a city then. there's still plenty of places to live outside of cities that aren't absurdly expensive. and whaddya know theres some jobs there too.
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  51. everything he says he's going to do it really just him asking for bribes.
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  52.  @0my  correct. but becoming a billionaire = greed. success is owning a home and living a good life. not owning more than a million people will ever make in their life and disrupting governments and destroying companies with your power.
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  53. we need to start looking at any company with over 10% of the marketshare to be dangerous, and not allow it to happen. if monopoly isnt the right word, then we need a new word.
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  54. the producers need to unionize together and negotiate as one, instead of each negotiating with walmart in secret so walmart can threaten them while they feel alone
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  55. segregation specifically exist so they can make sure the money goes to the right place. there is no such thing as separate but equal. separation leads to inequality.
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  56.  @anitaoconnell2799  public schools aren't failing, their funding is. they have hardly any money and it makes teaching a miserable professional, so all the good teachers leave.
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  57. if they really cared they would divest immediately
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  58. i like that trump and biden both agreed on china tarriffs. finally something we dont have to fight over. i think we'd get a lot more done if we focused on what we agree on rather than what we disagree on.
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  59. every single industry is doing this, everything is the cheapest possible garbage now, from food to appliances to cars to electronics.
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  60. rich people always pay less. they get bulk discounts, they get tons of stuff offered for free because people want their business. big businesses can always negotiate lower prices, despite not needed them as much. they get tax breaks from cities that want them to stay there. the entire system is just built to benefit rich people the most at the expense of regular citizens.
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  61. we citizens seriously need to unite to end citizens united.
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  62. THIS! It's so stupid to have to do anything at all. You already take taxes out of my pay check, why is that not the end of it?!
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  63. which is why we need to remove the ability to finance campaigns
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  64. we need to abolish parties
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  65. The worst part is the insurance companies jacked up the prices on purpose so you literally cannot survive without it. It's a scam from top to bottom.
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  66.  @mikegthompson  that is the natural progression of capitalism. the more power one entity accumulates, they more it will want, and the more it can fuck with our system to get it.
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  67. deny depose defend
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  68. i don't like biden at all. but he's still getting my vote, since he has the most important attribute a president can have, not being named donald trump
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  69. at least for their income. they should have to pay taxes on income like every other organization. if towns want to not charge property tax on them, fine, whatever, but if they're making money, it should be taxed.
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  70. truly psychotic
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  71. there comes a time when we have to realize expecting every company's employees to unionize separately is unfeasible. companies need to be forced to act morally through regulation. even if every company in america unionized, new ones would pop up that find a way to prevent unions, and that would allow them to generate profit quicker, which would get them more shareholders, and eventually they would take over the market and all employees/customers would be forced to use them instead. we're already all part of a union, it's called the united states. yet we voted to let the corporations decide the rules, and we have no power to stop them.
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  72. there's no point breaking them up if there's nothing preventing them from merging back together. I saw we just ban mergers all together so companies have to actually compete with each other
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  73. do we seriously need to abolish slavery AGAIN?! like what the fuck. its one of the worst parts of american history, and the majority of americans would agree slavery is bad, so why are we allowing it again? probably because our politics are too polarized to get anything actually done.
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  74. stop letting them draw it out! give them a deadline, and if the deadline is not met, instant company wide strike. if they have the option to draw it out, they will. don't give them the option. union negotiations aren't two friends trying to come to a unanimous decision. it's two warring factions with conflicting interests. you better use every power you have, because the company will.
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  75. the stock market demands you treat your employees as a valueless commodity. as long as shareholders are involved, they will be the true reason for all business decisions
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  76. its publicly traded. that means the money goes to investors.
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  77. profit is the guiding principal of every industry, it's the nature of capitalism. it's designed to benefit people with capital, so they can make more.
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  78. society needs an immune system against financial parasites. the legal system does not work.
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  79. it will soon invade every single industry. it's profitable to the biggest businesses, and creates an a whole new industry of consulting. soon nothing will be untouched by price fixing, except of course our wages.
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  80. it should just be mandated by law
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  81.  @kevinmoore734  not to trump voters no
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  82. fines would work if they were more than pennies.
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  83. yeah it should just be paid for with taxes, no one should even have to worry about a water bill, except corporations.
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  84. that's how it's always been throughout history. the only thing that was ever different was there was a period of time where people actually believed you could work your way up - but now they're realizing it's not true and never has been
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  85. and are perfectly fine with all the interfering that corporations and billionaires do with every aspect of our economy, government and lives
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  86. eh, we should just stop letting reality tv exist
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  87. just pull yourself up by your diamond studded bootstraps
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  88. not just his career, his entire political platform
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  89. how about a nationwide doctors strike until health insurance is nationalized
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  90. I think that's okay. Work benefits were just a way to force employees to stay at the same company for longer. We shouldn't need them. You should just be able to make enough money to survive based on getting paid for the hours that you work. And look at the guy whose pension disappeared because the company went under a year before he retired. We should not be beholden to corporations, they should be beholdened to their employees.
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  91. it just shouldn't exist. the stock market is just a way to transfer wealth from the working class to those who already have the most wealth.
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  92. what on earth? you're blaming the union for this? the people who are fighting to fix it? and not the management that explicitly made these changes out of greed?
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  93. im not disappointed at all. disappointment comes from failing to meet expectations. my only expectation that he wouldn't be as stupid and destructive as trump, and he's not. and on top of that, he actually accomplished something? that blows my expectations out of the water. i dont know what you expected, or why you expected it if it's every other administration has also been a disappointment.
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  94. but he said that he did
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  95. that needs to be made illegal.
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  96. please stop spamming this on every single video. even though I agree with it, I hate you for saying it. parroting catchy phrases does not prove anything and is not a good argument.
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  97. why is this same identical comment on every single one of these videos
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  98. too bad it's delicious
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  99.  @endxofxeternity  stop forcing me to choose between two horribly corrupt parties and maybe I'll participate. I'm not going to participate in your ridiculous game of red vs blue moral superiority when all your opinions are decided for you.
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  100. unfortunately, that's not uncommon in america either
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  101. anyone should be able to buy a house in the town the live in within 5-10 years of living their, from their savings. mortgages shouldn't exist.
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  102.  @m.s.7926  a president can't save us. we need hundreds of people like her filling our congress and senate and supreme court
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  103. no, they shouldn't exist. the fact they need to exist means something else is fundamentally broken. this should not even be possible to happen. the landlords should be fined every day for every apartment that is in poor condition. and no landlord should be a corporation.
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  104. Here is how you tell when a company is lying to you: the are a company
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  105. we need to end political parties and change our voting system to one that's less stupid
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  106. sorry but that's just not possible for most people, especially if enough people tried to do that for it to actually affect the meat industry. only regulation can stop it.
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  107. its far more dangerous for them to continue helping make planes that will fall apart in the sky.
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  108. the doctors also have no idea what they cost. you cant know until you get there
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  109. they should absolutely recieve no breaks. what happened to separation of church and state? also just like all other corporate entities, big religions get the biggest breaks, and new religions aren't allowed to be considered religions. it's a government funded monopoly and needs to be shut down.
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  110.  @WigglyCoop007  no it's not
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  111. i agree, it only exists to make rich people richer and to subsidize unsustainable businesses while they use established wealth to outcompete and choke out all their competition until they have a monopoly. in a free market, if you wanted money, you'd have to actually work at a company, and that company would have to actually make more money than it spends.
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  112. unions is the prescription to treat that illness
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  113.  @WigglyCoop007  no it's not
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  114. i just dont order food any more. its not part of my life now. they killed it.
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  115. lets start making a menu
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  116. but muh dues
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  117.  @WigglyCoop007  your comment is wildly misleading
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  118. yeah we need to stop depending on income taxes or even capital gains taxes. even if they were insanely high, they would be still be insanely wealthy. nothing will change while we allow individuals to hoard this much wealth, it gives them too much power and it's too easy to use it for evil.
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  119. We need to stop allowing them to "clean up" their own spills. They're obviously going to do the worst job possible. The government should contract someone else, and send the spillers a bill.
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  120.  @lilbigbozo  nah, because they have the privelage of diversifying their wealth across every industry and country and value store, and have plenty of backup countries to move to when this one collapses. they wont hurt at all. in fact I'd argue the reason they hoard so much wealth is because they expect it to collapse and want to extract as much as they can from it before it does so they dont have to suffer any consequences.
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  121. absolutely. not everything has to be allowed to be a business venture. certainly not something so closely linked with survival and being able to escape poverty.
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  122. and they'll probably just fine all the renters $600 to make up for it.
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  123.  @Michaelsun-z8k  dont worry about the current value ever. just put money in, never take it out.
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  124. or as corporations would say "we are still reaping the benefits of the untold tweaks done by ronald reagan"
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  125. yeah its stupid. plus we all already paid it. we dont have to file taxes for all the sales tax we paid, so why do we have to do it for employment taxes?
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  126. now it means loyal to whoever wears red
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  127. our taxes are. and it's gonna cost everyone a whole lot less than throwing their money at private insurance corporations who will fight tooth and nail to prevent you from getting treatment. taxes exist for a good reason.
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  128. idk if you've played chess, they're very much like pawns, who basically only exist to be sacrificed
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  129. they're a business. we need to stop pretending colleges arent for profit businesses.
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  130. i thought employers taking your tips was illegal
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  131. it should be illegal to shut down a factory at all. if you dont want the factory any more, fine, leave. but let the workers have it and keep it running.
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  132. That would make so much more sense. Why do I have to beg my landlord to call a plumber? I should just be able to let someone know I need one, then one shows up.
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  133.  @connorbrady5689  unregulated at least. we need far more protections against corporations meddling with our democracy
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  134. get this issue to kamala
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  135. forcing people to have children they dont want is cruel. also they arent children and it's not murder.
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  136. shame doesn't matter to them. at all. stop expecting corporations to act with morals. morality is human. corporations are not. they either need to be forced to act morally, or it will not.
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  137. *if the company still exists *and it hasn't been reduced to nothing via inflation *and they havent found a legal loophole to get out of it
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  138. i dont, because that means they're about to start lobbying and are going to win
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  139. investment is a blight on the equality landscape
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  140. it's double in my state and still hard to survive.... it needs to be like $20 at least now
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  141.  @cdevidal  we are not thriving.
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  142. the problem is they force cars to be sold that way, instead of letting you just order one from a catalogue with a fair price
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  143. it can never be enough, because they don't seek wealth, they seek growth. growth never ends.
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  144. by design
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  145. amen
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  146. stop reposting this.
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  147. That's why you need to strike. Give them a deadline to give you a good contract, if they dont, strike until they do. Dont put up with their bullshit delays.
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  148. not sometimes. every single corporation in the fortune500 breaks the law every single day.
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  149. the real problem is that people would even vote for a convicted felon
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  150. his name is bernie, and we dont deserve him
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  151. they should be treated like serial rapists on parole. they should be watched like a hawk and severely punished when they break the rules.
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  152. wat
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  153. @nathair666 nah, it's like patching holes in a sinking boat. what we need is a new boat, and patching only delays that (Which is why big pharma allows it to happen)
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  154. cant we talk about why UNION BUSTING CONSULTING FIRMS are allowed at all? If union busting is illegal, how are they not committing a crime by helping to do it?! If I gave a helping hand to a murder, you can bet your ass a judge would imprison me. Everyone running those firms should go to jail.
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  155. you cannot stand up for yourself against these giant corporations. we can only stand with each other.
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  156. COLA should be mandatory for every single industry and business. it should be illegal to give people pay reductions via inflation every year, which is what most businesses do.
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  157. people only shop because if they dont they're wasting their subscription.
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  158. they need to station sign holders in front of those propaganda billboards
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  159. if they aren't fixing the building, ownership of the building should be forcibly taken away and distributed to the current residents.
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  160. yes please. this would help so freaking much.
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  161. if they actually wanted to fight back, they should have started getting new jobs as soon as possible and left the factory empty.
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  162. ​ @WigglyCoop007  obviously we don't have proof of what shareholders are saying behind closed doors. doesn't mean it's not happening. lack of proof does not prove anything.
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  163. so ironic, it's basically the complete opposite of what it's supposed to be. generous little option donation to a hard worker > big required additional fee to make lazy boss more money
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  164. we just shouldn't allow companies to grow this big. even if they can do it more efficiently, what's the point if they're taking away the livelihood of millions of people? why are corporations profits more important than honest jobs for human beings?
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  165. boycotting does nothing. they need to be heavily regulated AND punished for the CRIMES they've committed (including punishing the executives or dissolving the company)
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  166. so is having to find a new job at the end of every project
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  167. if this doesn't get solved, would you still say this was too late 100 years from now? It's not too late to talk about it until the problem is solved. Until then we need to keep being aware of it.
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  168. I would like my refund in blood.
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  169.  @RobinZinke  so you think corruption is a good thing? you think we should live in a world with no rules? you don't believe society or law has any value and we should just live in a jungle where anyone can do whatever they want with no consequences?
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  170. kids dont give af
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  171. Dude, shut up. We need to focus on what we have in common, not what divides us. That guy had a lot of good points.
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  172. teams should be owned by the cities they're in, not by billionaires.
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  173. they are to form a union
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  174. the parties are the problem. we need to abolish political parties as all it does is concentrate power and polarize issues
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  175. AOC for president!
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  176. corporate socialism
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  177. WHY IS LOBBYING STILL ALLOWED
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  178. what are you on about?
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  179. private equity and hedge funds need to made illegal. in fact, we should just abolish the stock market, as it's only purpose is to increase wealth inequality.
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  180. and instead of voting someone who was actually employed and actually earned money as a working citizen, and wasnt just given millions by their rich parents
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  181. bare minimum is still better than trump
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  182. nationalize healthcare yesterday
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  183. It should be illegal for public service companies to have shareholders or parent companies, doesn't that defeat the point?
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  184. nah they're usually describing themselves
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  185. "covid had created a labor shortage" stop spreading this lie. there is not such thing as a labor shortage, just jobs that pay less than they're worth.
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  186. they all need to be shut down. no company should be able to own this much, and certainly not after the crimes they've committed.
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  187. also known as "voters"
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  188. you sound like huge newbie. you haven't earned anything while your money is still in crypto, you just made number go up. but im sure you'll cry that you "lost everything" once the bubble pops and people realize it has no actual value other than scamming people.
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  189. holy shit people buy 68 pieces of clothes a year!? idk if i bought any...
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  190. tell me whats not
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  191. that should be the only type of business allowed.
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  192.  @silverXnoise  thats obviously what they meant
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  193. all of your titles state I wont believe it, yet I always do. capitalism IS corruption. this is inevitable when you let corporations grow without bounds.
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  194. at least they're pretending to represent our interests instead of blatantly supporting the billionaires and tricking us into thinking we want that too
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  195. even that's pointless now, Amazon's search is filled with cheap knockoffs and fake reviews, and that's after you scroll through multiple pages of sponsored products
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  196. no point saving for retirement if you're gonna starve next week because you cant get a job because you don't have a car. cars are not a luxury in america.
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  197.  @joeblowjo  its not collapsing at all, it's just being monopolised, aka becoming more evil
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  198. dont worry, disney has vowed to stop abusing their artists, just as soon as they can replace them all with AI
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  199. cant tell if she actually did anything wrong or you guys are just the same people who always hated her
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  200. every single city and town should provide adequate housing for all their citizens.
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  201. i wish this would help, but it will just slow it down, eventually corporations will own every single building, and buying a home will be no more.
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  202. i hope neither side gives in and the company just shuts down.
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  203. the vaccines all worked tho
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  204. we have a talent for letting the rich change the laws to make themselves richer
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  205. STOP LINKING HEALTH INSURANCE TO EMPLOYMENT! IT ONLY SERVES TO ABUSE WORKERS! EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE HEALTHY!
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  206. better yet, turn over the property to the current renters. they are now the owners.
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  207.  @DrAJ_LatinAmerica  if there was enough supply to meet demand, they would have. it shouldn't be legal to rent places that are falling apart in the first place. and it shouldn't be legal for corporations to own residential property at all.
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  208. don't give him so much credit. Reagan started it. trumps just continuing the push.
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  209. someone didn't watch the video
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  210. hmm, whatdya know, just like everyone that used to be middle class. the middle class is gone. they took it. and we cant take it back one company or even industry at a time.
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  211. im amazed he wasnt booed out of that room. but i guess is he was everyone there would have been fired for pouring coffee at the wrong angle
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  212. the craziest thing is we cant even blame a corporation, which are objectively inevitably evil and greedy. the government is supposed to be different. yet it has the same outcome.
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  213. "it would distort the free market" - giant corporations with an effective monopoly who also get billions in government handouts and don't even do the work we pay them to do, and actively campaign against letting the government give it to anyone else
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  214. fuck rent control. NO PERSON OR ORGANIZATION SHOULD BE ABLE TO OWN MULTIPLE HOUSES. House are for people, not profit.
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  215. no matter what he does, the haters will call it something.
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  216.  @WigglyCoop007  which people exactly?
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  217. unfortunately, the harder they fight, the harder the more money megacorporations will put into self-driving trucks. requiring working to fight for their own rights and livable wages is unsustainable. the cause for the drop in wages was deregulation. the solution is regulation.
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  218. we need to ban price setting algorithms across the board, there is no industry that should be allowed to use it. it just gives corporations more power to abuse.
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  219. no such thing as a good corporation.
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  220. every single new coin is bought by insiders before launch.
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  221. everyone knows inflation only exists because it's beneficial for corporations.
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  222. literally socialism for rich people. and im sure republicans have nothing to say about that.
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  223. why are we wasting time fighting individual battles against each company? This is clearly a systemic problem with captialism, and we need to come together and fix the problem as a whole, not play whackamole with trying to form a union in every company.
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  224.  @penguin32383  because of insurance. they are the reason prices are so high, even when you don't use insurance.
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  225. WHY DOES EVERY INDUSTRY HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS SEPARATELY?!?! Everyone should have health care, everyone should have a living wage.
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  226. it's a casino except the house is allowed to change the value of your chips on a whim
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  227. bias towards to the wealthy is the whole point of capitalism. it's made to benefit those with captial. it's going to continue destroying every good until it's regulated to hell and back. regulated so hard to eventually it disappears and we all have excess.
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  228. " a handful of companies".... so antimonopoly laws are far too lax. we need to prevent corporations from owning even 1/10th of the marketshare. honestly i dont see any way to prevent giant corporations from taking over and cheating the market other than preventing them from mergers and buyouts. consolidation only results in market manipulation.
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  229. if we could just somehow show republicans all the things their tax dollars are being used to subsidize that only benefit rich people, i think we'd all be on the same side. they are pissed about "socialism", yet only find issues with it when it helps poor people. no one is going out of their way to try to stop rich people from getting free handouts. (probably because that's not beneficial to fox news, which is where they get all their ideas)
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  230. this is what you get when you let a selfish spoiled brat who was born rich run the government
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  231. yeah, i wish we just had two presidents and they only enacted changes they could both agree on
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  232. WHY THE FUCK DO WE ALLOW MONEY TO INFLUENCE OUR ELECTIONS AT ALL THATS THE EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE OF DEMOCRACY
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  233. and it should get lower and lower each year
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  234. please stop saying vote blue, it's not gonna convince any republicans to change their mind, you're just increasing us vs them tribalism
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  235. what ever happened to supply and demand? if you cant find workers, you need to increase the amount you're paying... that's how it works...
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  236. OF COURSE THIS ALL STARTED WITH A PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM! THEY ARE DESTROYING THE WORLD!
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  237. that's completely wrong. every single industry is facing inflation and very very few have raised wages, in fact most have lowered when you account for inflation. they raise prices whenever they can, it has no relation to the actual cost of the products.
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  238. "just give all your money to the people who caused the problem so they can get richer off your meager savings"
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  239. no it's not, we could also eat all the rich people, perform denial of service attacks on their businesses, tie them up in legal cases, block them from entering buildings, disable their cars, hack their bank accounts, etc. there's plenty of options. everyone's just too afraid to do anything.
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  240. so dont get one
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  241. capitalism is designed to reward greed and existing power.
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  242. i dont care about free, i want it to be easy. i think taxes should just be taken automatically from companies and we shouldn't have to worry about filing at all.
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  243. this isnt a problem with frito lay, it's a problem with capitlism. this is an inevitability of a system where corporations arent held accountable.
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  244. there is a shortage of labor. and a lower supply means the value of labor goes up. the labor is there, they just aren't willing to pay a fair price for it, they want to pay the lower price they're used to.
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  245.  @phxsisko  there is no green party. because of our voting system, any vote not for the main 2 parties is basically thrown out, or worse, taken away from the party you would have chosen otherwise. until we get RCV, you are wasting your vote if not voting for them.
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  246. because that's just propaganda invented by the rich to make you think you already have it better than most people and to not try to fight for anything better. when you look at actual data, the US is not the greatest in any category.
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  247. the free market is a lie
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  248.  @wishunter9000  or is it perhaps government underreach, for making laws based on current situation and then never revisiting them over the next century. just because it's bad for us now doesn't mean it was the wrong decision for the government to make at the time. and even if it was, the problem is still that we let it sit for 80 years instead of changing it once we realized it's no longer working. I dunno when that was, but at least we can all agree that in it's current state, it's completely broken.
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  249. if trumpets can break from the republican party and help end this 2 party system, that's a win for america
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  250. we to stop having any parties because that's their greatest tool for blocking positive changes
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  251. no, they will say "see I knew trump was right about joe biden"
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  252. women need to stop voting for people who want to take away their rights, if they want rights
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  253. wow, once again, shortage of workers has no effect on the wages. supply and demand is bullshit. it's just an excuse they use to make up whatever prices they want.
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  254. the people that can dont give a fuck about workers rights
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  255. everything has gotten worse, and more expensive and we cant even rely on ratings because they are all faked, and they just keep pumping out new products constantly so old products are quickly forgotten
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  256. STOP ALLOWING MERGERS! EVERY CORPORATE ABUSE STORY STARTS WITH A MERGER
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  257. and they have the audacity to think they don't rely on other people? they all rely on handouts and exploitation.
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  258.  @SgtJoeSmith  employee fucking greed?!!?! they're the greedy ones?! not the executives taking home hundreds of millions of dollars that they dont need??
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  259. if they can't accept that all people deserve healthcare, surely republicans would agree that all children should right? since they care so much about children?
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  260. yes the entire issue needs to be addressed as a whole, completely outlawed. unfortunately I fear even if kamala wins she wont do anything so drastic. at best she'll undo some of trumps damage.
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  261. capitialism is flawed. now everyone has to compete with prices set by megacorporations, and if you cant compete with the, you die (which is what they want, because all corporations are inherently anti-competitive, ie anti-capitalism)
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  262. it's like a zebra voting for a lion because he put on a black and white hat
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  263. this is why capitalism DOES NOT WORK without regulation!!!!
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  264. capitalism without regulation is just a road to tyranny where one entity owns everything, also known as a kingdom
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  265. why dont we just stop wasting time money and energy on small battles, and just give everyone universal healthcare already.
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  266. yeah pyramid scheme is the best descriptor. the value only goes up as more new people are brought in to screw over, then they have to bring in more people otherwise they get screwed over.
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  267. yes, the answer is just give the rich every last penny you have so they can use it to make more money, that will surely solve the wealth gap
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  268. this is fucked up. I feel like we shouldn't allow brands to be bought by other companies, they should be forced to stay separate. otherwise we cant make choices about which brands to buy because they're all run by a few giant shadow megacorporations.
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  269. because they own the media, which decides who people vote for
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  270. they dont think it's a good idea because they don't think. it's not their idea, they're just parrotting what their stupid friends say so they can fit in.
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  271. the people making the decisions have no love nor humanity
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  272. i dont get why homeless people stay in cities... the most expensive places to live.
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  273. 18k a year is more than some people make in america. imagine a pill making more money than you do.
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  274. yeah we should just get rid of income tax, and get the tax directly from corporations instead.
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  275.  @johnnynick6179  there are already enough empty homes in america to house every single homeless person in america. but im sure you dont care.
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  276. yeah, it forces us to give over all of our savings throughout our lives to them so they can use it to grow profits and screw us over more.
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  277. "economy" is just a word to describe the concentrated wealth at the top. they hold us hostage with it and if they stop making as much, they make us suffer. we are slaves.
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  278. Don't end your life, dedicate it to the cause of tearing down your oppressors.
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  279. 1 warehouse is not amazon. amazon will just make other workers work harder to make up the slack. they aren't going to allow any loss of money.
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  280. their views all come from fox news, so who cares what they say? they don't mean it, they're not bad people, they're just controlled by the media.
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  281. that's because it was right after regan, who is the one who began the destruction of our economy and government for the benefit of the wealthy
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  282. this is what we should all be focusing on, most people in both parties agree on this, so lets fix it together instead of focusing on what we disagree on
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  283. no such thing as too many dairy farmers, it's a good job that we need done. there's no reason to give all those jobs to a giant corporation that keeps all the profit for themselves.
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  284. there is no just version of society where they exist. they do absolutely no good for anyone except a few rich people, and cause a lot of harm.
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  285. shut up
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  286. too bad cvs killed mine
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  287. it was never meant to work, it was a hoax from the start
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  288. houses are for humans, not corporate profit. homes should not be able to be owned by any legal entities other than a single human being. and Kamala isn't going to fix it, she's just going to do a few little bandaids that slightly make people feel better but don't actually address the problems. she wont stop corporations from profiting off our homes. and the poorest of the poor will still be doomed to wasting a giant chunk of their income renting shitty apartments for way more than they're worth, and never being able to save up enough money to buy a house, because all the prices are so inflated by speculation.
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  289. @mobeoner100 you have fallen for the illusion of choice. all the big corporations are colluding to keep wages down, there are no good jobs any more. they do not compete on wages, when they can't fill a position they just complain how no one wants to work, and then wait to hire worse workers.
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  290.  @biffbifford402  congrats on getting extremely lucky. you are not smart.
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  291. they are making less than minimum wage, if adjusted for inflation. every job should provide a livable wage.
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  292. all corporations are anti-consumer and anti-worker. they only thing they care about is making money for the execs and shareholders.
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  293.  @wouldntyouliketoknow9891 no one should own a lot of businesses.
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  294. AND they already took your tax money! The taxes are already paid! So why do we need to go through all this crap?! Really it's because upper middle class people like how they can get all kinds of deductions and end up paying less than the poor.
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  295. yeah this as shocking as an apple hitting the ground after falling from a tree. as long as billionaires get to buy politicians with lobbying and campaign money, everything will continue to get worse just like this.
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  296. the inflation is intentional, so that they get to pay you less. if you increase wages, they'll just increase inflation again. they have all the power to manipulate the system.
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  297. yeah they need to go big or go home and not settle for bullshit "compromises".
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  298. HOUSES ARE FOR PEOPLE NOT PROFIT
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  299. billions of dollars were not on the table. they were in the pockets of farmers, and the corporations just stole them. i dont care what's legal, we all know it's immoral.
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  300. they want a criminal president because they want to commit crimes.
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  301. neither are these people you clown
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  302.  @kurugundlavikranth201  that's a complete lie and will never happen, he made it up to raise spacex stocks, like most things he says
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  303. we did, yet somehow we allowed this idiotic exception! we need to stop allowing exceptions! they're always used to abuse people! like when we outlawed slavery (unless you're a prisoner)
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  304. we have a talent for letting the rich change the laws to make themselves richer
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  305. all conservative viewpoints are just the opposite of whatever liberals want. they don't care about anything except scaring you into voting for them.
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  306. i think the working poor needs to explain why the fuck they keep voting for republicans
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  307.  @tenaciousminion8753  Hitler didn't make the holocaust by himself, doesn't mean he wasnt to blame. He made it happen. The millions of people you speak of would just follow any charismatic asshole, no matter what his platform was.
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  308. yeah, if they aint facing any repercussions from all this illegal union busting, then it aint fuckin illegal
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  309. yes, fuck compromise! they've already showed they will never compromise, they will just take and take until you're dead.
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  310. ABOLISH PRIVATE EQUITY!
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  311. we should nationalize any corporation that breaks the law
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  312. sorry, maybe it wasn't what it used to be about, but it is now. holidays evolve and change, just like how Christianity stole the holiday from the pagans, the capitalists stole it from the christians.
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  313. unionize every fucking company
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  314. HOUSING IS FOR PEOPLE NOT PROFIT
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  315. im just not gonna live, I have no future
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  316. every single company in america would gladly use slave labor over employees if we let them (and a lot do it anyway)
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  317. fuck that. boycots dont work. you will never convince enough people not to shop at store this big to make a dent. only the government has the power to stop corporations from abusing people. and we just voted for someone who is about to gut it and deregulate as much as possible. it's about to get much much worse, and the bigger the company, the more they will thrive.
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  318. they already literally have their own schools where they're allowed to indoctrinate the hell out of students and teach straight up fake science. so why do they need to attack everyone elses schools as well?
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  319. the problem is that most people could already tell trump was a grimy fucking liar from the moment he started his campaign. we all knew none of his promises would be completed, its a shame that republicans fell for it.
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  320. if you allow companies to purchase other companies that would otherwise compete or serve them, then abuse and monopolization is inevitable. mergers are one of the biggest ways corporations(shareholders) cheat capitalism with wealth.
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  321. no, we pay to tell the government our money back that we already paid in taxes
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  322. or at the very least, see that it's the billionaire class that's doing this. trump is the worst of both worlds, completely corrupt and literally a convicted criminal. it makes 0 sense for any working class person to vote for him.
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  323. clearly seems like a bad place to move to right now. $1400/m for a house without running water? what the fuck?
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  324. all because those greedy fucks don't want to pay more when labor supply went down. supply and demand is only ever used to justify making more money, it never goes in reverse to help workers.
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  325. ALL MERGERS ARE ANTI-COMPETITIVE AND ANTI-CONSUMER!!!
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  326. if I was president, I would just completely ban all mergers. they have no use except for consolidating power so you can more easily abuse your workers and customers.
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  327.  @TheAvtrey  blame the shepherd not the sheep
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  328. WHAT HAVE THEY NOT FUCKING STOLEN
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  329. tipping sucks so much that I now hate going to restaurants. I haven't gone to a sit down place since before the pandemic. It's just such a stupid waste of money, puts unnecessary social pressure on both me and the waiter, and literally only exists so restaurants can pay people less than minimum wage.
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  330. most obvious thing ever. I don't need someone to tell me it's happening, i need the government to do something about it.
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  331. dont tell them, it wont make like socialism it will make them blame all their problems on it
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  332. 0:22 comparing trump to bernie is idiodic. one is a babbling idiot, and one you just disagree with because he wants to stifle your greed.
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  333. NO MORE MERGERS
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  334. boycotts do not work, and they especially wont work on the type of people buying fast fashion clothes or listening to influencers. the only thing that will stop it is regulation.
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  335. because it's purely a get rich quick scheme. no one actually believes in it.
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  336. we need to somehow put a stop to this whole system where you flood money into a company until it disrupts the market and creates a monopoly and then you exploit the workers and consumers as much as possible until you go bankrupt.... it should not be legal, it should not be possible. this is not how money should work, it's not how capitalism should work.
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  337. and she'll get free votes from women who just want to see a woman in office, just like hillary did (despite neither representing their interests)
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