That’s why governments exist in the first place. It’s supposed to be an adversarial relationship between Business and Government, between the individual and society... *le sigh*.

yes but the number of people needed for the skilled maintenance work is still lower than when there was unskilled assembly work. It’s still a net loss and there will still be more people who are unemployable.

or we could just let millions starve to death until labor supply is back in whack with labor demand. All you have to do is convince them that you’re helping them.

Exactly. I’m not anti-business. I’m just not going to act like they’re benevolent or charities. Every single decision has a cost-benefit analysis. It’s how you get companies deciding things like it being cheaper to pay out 1-2 lawsuits per year instead of paying slightly more to prevent whatever it is they’re being…

I don’t understand why this isn’t obvious to people. It’s how the entire economy is set up - labor vs. corporate. Despite what SCOTUS said, companies aren’t people and they don’t have ethics. Especially ones where a CEO doesn’t stay on board for more than 5-10 years. If there’s a way to increase profits, they’ll do…

Replacing humans with tech will always be the objective - Puzder has said he wanted to automate his businesses as well. And the only reason he’s pro-immigrant is because you can pay them less than American citizens.

I think Debra Messing did.

Is office christmas party *actually* in the same universe as horrible bosses or no? It’s been driving me insane.

Now I want him to launch ObamaTV and really steal Trump’s dream job though.

LOL I say tell them to bring it on if they actually think it’s a good idea. A constitutional convention would 100% mean the dissolution of the union. NY/California et al are not going to acquiesce to a constitutional set up that allows them to be as mistreated as they’re being right now. Maybe we end up with 3…

see my immediate reaction was “wtf did the staten island ferry do to script writers?” between this and TDK... let it be. No one *wants* to go to staten island, those people have it rough enough.

Forget any of the Hillary lies, the second he was actually running against Trump the GOP would remind their base that he’s a socialist Jew and it would have been all over (source: JFK barely winning, possibly due to actual voter fraud; breitbart and Facebook existing; just as plausible hypotheticals as anything this…

It’s like arguing practical physics with someone who thinks the questions from high school that say to ignore mass or friction are the real world.

“no one liked” Oh ok. cool. I guess I am no one.

he didn’t disparage safe spaces, he disparaged “safe place[s]”. I don’t know what the fuck those are, but they sound weird.

It’s “Safe Space” not “Safe Place” you moron.

“If you work hard, and look out for your fellow Americans in their time of need, they will look out for you in yours.” <— what’s so wrong with that as a new American Dream?

American dream was always a myth, and its promise is what got us into this mess in the first place - If you work hard, you will succeed has always been bullshit. It never acknowledged the roles luck and circumstance play along with hard work.

one of the most hilarious things I learned from a previous job is how many things at IKEA that you put your feet on or that are found in bathrooms are named after places in Denmark.

I loved JHud, but I felt a little weird watching her sing Big Blonde and Beautiful, given her extremely public weight loss history/spokesperson for weight watchers... I know it’s nitpicky, but it just made me pause a bit, given that she is NO ONE’S definition of “hefty” except for Hollywood’s.