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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The funny part is how you blame businesses, but every time a government or nonprofit tries the same, SALARIES ARE NOT PAID (on time or at all).

CENTRAL PLANNING IS WORSE AS B2B COMPETITION.

Fck off zurdos de m

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Could you elaborate on exactly what it is you're talking about?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There's always some bootlicker just waiting to pop out of the bush.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But in south America they have been robbed blind by communists getting 11.5% loans from China for failed projects. IN DOZENS OF LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South America was robbed blind by Europe and North America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. And then in the 21 century it was robbed by extreme left wing narco dictators and militant groups....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what the fuck are you talking about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you are unaware of the last twenty years in Venezuela el salvador ecuador argentina and so many more... Please read up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Yeah, it's all China's fault and totally not the imperial power who exploited South America for decades, foisted murderous fascist regimes onto it and funded genocidal death squads over there who murdered millions.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people in the US fall for that take. Socialism did take root in the US - that's the whole reason they had to invent police and alphabet organisations to crush it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m Finnish.

Sooo... you have less of an excuse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Less of an excuse to quote a well known quote?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And they ALWAYS have a self-important username. "JustMy2c" that nobody asked for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My bet is that they're an Argentinian who voted for Milei and is currently coping

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/list_of_service_organizations.pdf?1652979589

That's an extensive list of every 501(c)3 in the largest economy in the US. California has strong workers protections compared to the rest of the nation. If they don't pay your salary, withhold your salary, or even fire you without your final pay in hand, they owe triple in damages. Nonprofit corporations, and Co-Ops, are the only corporations that should exist, as they are the only ones not legally beholden to shareholders profits first.

We will execute corporations in a heartbeat if they decide to FAFO out here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you know there exists other options like co-ops?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Doesn't work.

[citation needed]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One, non-profits are worse by design, being both a tax write-off and deliberately exploitative entities, and two, any government that goes it has to work against number of international interests, each of which probably gets more income than many country's economy. Companies are centrally planned by their CEO and board of directors, your statement makes no sense. The only difference is in what they are willing to do and were they are willing to go, where the real difference is not having to give a shit about your workers or consumers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work in a non profit healthcare company and the first part of your statement is bullshit. No comment on the rest of it though but non profit can work just fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They work worse and act as an excuse not to offer universal care, so I disagree. Talk to these guys about just how good non-profit healthcare is .... https://www.bbb.org/us/fl/orlando/profile/hospital/adventhealth-0733-160528155/customer-reviews

Basically, as bad as healthcare, but they can get tax-free incentives. Good luck for the diamond in the rough you claim to belong to, but it's far, far, far from the norm and it comes with hidden costs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Has anyone ever told you the world is bigger than the US? Because it is, and I'm from there. That's why healthcare isn't a problem no matter what type of company I work in (if I even work). So maybe working non-profit in the US is unfair, but it is just as working for a normal organisation here in Europe.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Universal healthcare can't be for-profit btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Of course it isn't, I'm not arguing for for-profit universal healthcare, where did you get that impression? I'm arguing against non-profits being used as tax-free launderers without any real benefits that also seem to want to get their low level workers to work for free while the CEOs cash in a nice salary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Take your choice between mainstream non-relevance, free reusable software projects for large enterprises with small or next to nothing labor costs, political fronts, while also being far from the norm of how non-profits are used. You used the term "non-working", not me, but it's quite apt. If FSF and the Linux Foundation are worth anything, is because of the trust one can place in their central leadership, but their licenses get ignored all the time internationally and no amount of lawyers and money can overcome that. Even in regards to Ukranian and anti-Putin support, most of it is coming from the mainstream because that's where the people are, crumbs don't make an argument.