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[–] pantyhosewimp 73 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It all comes back to Ronald fucking Reagan. Yes, the actor. Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Jack Welch, former GE CEO and current free gravestone urinal had a lot to do with changing corporate culture to completely abandon the pretense of societal responsibility as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The Bushes have a dynasty of their own. I'm sure they're fine with selling some favors, but they mostly pushed their own agenda, oil. Oil profits at all costs. That and finishing what daddy started.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Ronald Reagan! The actor? Then who's vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady! And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, wtfhappenedin1971.com doesn't answer the question? Damn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Man I fucking hate this goldbug conspiracy bullshit site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the consolidation of neoliberalism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Infinite growth at the cost of a habitable planet is good. Corporations are people and need to last forever. Sociopathy is rewarded.

It's not enough that I have a lot, everyone else has to have a lot less. Forever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My productivity is directly linked to my wage – the charts be damned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Mines the other way around. That's the nice thing about sales.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

[Reaganomics intensifies]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I think the productivity curve should be exponential instead of linear due to all sorts of automation...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Some day we'll find our Mahsa Amini, the last straw. It may be an industrial accident in which workers were locked in place. It may be a dead girl. It may be a law that denies too many people healthcare. It may be a day of mass famine.

It'll be the day that enough people have had enough to riot at a scale that overwhelms all responders.

The more we try other things, the more our peaceful protests and unionization efforts and mutual aid efforts get assaulted and brutalized by law enforcement, the closer we get to realizing that nothing short of razing the plutocrats is going to stop them.

They will kill us all before they give up their power and cruelty. The question is how many of us have to fall victim to the system before we act.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reaganomics + neoliberalism + Greenspan libertarianism.

Unleash freedom for markets, money and corporations, democracy, human rights, ethics and morals be damned! Exorbitant growth in the pocketbooks of the few, big crumbs for those in charge, govts and politicians. Sinema quickly learned this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You're somebody.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I am betting on the 4 day workweek. If UAW can get it them I might too.