Doesn’t remotely surprise me that the Federalist doesn’t know the difference between bribery and paying a salary (which will get taxed and pay for public services). It’s on brand stupidity.
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Great job! You did everything your boss asked you to do! You met all your goals and commitments outlined for the fiscal year! Here’s no bonus, no raise, no other rewards. Again, great job!
(This is pretty close to an actual experience I had once. I found another job after that.)
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I got reviews like this too, more than once, usually because while I met all my personal goals, the store itself didn’t meet whatever astronomical, unrealistic revenue goal the higher-ups had set. So they had a perfect excuse to either deny us our rightfully-earned raises, or at best give us maybe a nickel more an hour.
That company no longer exists. But I’m very sure other retail establishments do the same. So is it any wonder why I wound up posting memes like this?
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Raises sound nice…
Like the easter bunny. Or santa. Or ethical capitalism.
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second verse
same as the first
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This was true for me. I didn’t seriously consider anarcho-communism as an option until I found out that social democracy and social liberalism had no interest in actually helping me, when I needed help the most. If the Labour party had a functioning left wing in 2004 I might stayed with them, but we had Blairites moving the party to the right instead.
I came back to Labour after Corbyn, but I am now thinking that was a big mistake.
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“Socialism is when the government does stuff. And the more stuff it does, the more socialister. And when the government does a WHOLE LOTTA STUFF, then it’s COMMUNISM”
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There was a recent announcement in Canada that a company would be buying up around $1B in houses to turn them into rentals and it unleashed a furor. The company apparently did not anticipate this at all. Don Pittis, a journalist who covers economic issues for the CBC wrote a piece under the headline:
“Corporate plan to buy and rent family homes an inevitable step for capitalism”
Like that is supposed to make us feel better. I wonder if economists think most people are on the side of Capitalism. Like the average person wants to go to debate club and argue for the merits of Capitalism. As opposed to most people liking the current system, whatever it is, if they feel they are getting a fair shake out of it, and not liking it if they feel they are being kept down or taken for a ride.
When I think about it, I think capitalism owes it’s good name entirely to the fact that the post-war period allowed so many [white] people to purchase homes. If you want to know how much people like capitalist landlords, check out the works of Dickens, for example.
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I’m no tankie, but Mao had the right idea with regard to landlords and whether they should be allowed to exist.
I agree that’s certainly part of it.
I’d say a perhaps larger part is 70 years of cold war propaganda, and various political parties destroying basic economic and history and civics education.
If we teach everyone from a young age that communism and socialism is what it’s called when you drop your ice cream or get a scraped knee…
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