what none of these articles address is why she was put under conservatorship in the first place and what possible reason would there be to continue it? i know it’s good for the clicks, but there is no context to this article. wasn’t she put under this initially because of her mental health? is it possible that her…

Bill Cosby walks free, this girl remains in a fucked up position. blah.

How can you justify continuing to keep an adult from controlling her own life?

It’s an interesting thing that’s happened over the last 30-40-50 years maybe.

If you need to put restraints and regulations on capitalism so it doesn’t seek its logical extreme one could easily argue that capitalism is the problem.

So the thousands of workers working long hours and 2-3 jobs are somehowe flawed and broken and not working hard enough. Right, the people cleaning the homes of the capital gains crowd work loads harder. Luck has a lot of influnece over who gets to be successful and successful people tend to not see how lucky they have…

Certainly proves the need for more aggressive estate taxes above a certain level.

I think you underestimate how DISGUSTINGLY RICH Bezos is, and how much of a drain on US social programs and infrastructure his company is. Bezos’ being THAT rich, affects the entire country.

One of the problems is that traditionally blue collar political parties have gone all-in on a combination of globalist technocracy and identity politics. This has alienated many in the working class, whether they are people in traditionally working class manufacturing and resource jobs, or the new underclass of “gig…

your humble brag makes me want to barf, man.  c’mon.

Removing safeguards for ordinary workers is one of the biggest accomplishments of the 80s, 90s,2000s. Do you think a Union Job would allow drivers to pee/poop in a bag while making deliveries?

We also have a gut-level reaction to poverty - that it’s contagious - so don’t hang around those people.

Of course it affects you, you just aren’t aware of it. He doesn’t make millions a year, he makes a millions of dollars every hour. To be more precise about 13 million every hour. To believe that doesn’t warp the functioning of the world you live in is incredibly myopic.

Because that’s the image the rich have worked hard to cultivate

Yes. So many want the minimum wage set a 1cent per hour or something and then hero worship the dude whose daddy gave him the company.

It’s an interesting thing that’s happened over the last 30-40-50 years maybe. pendulum has certainly moved from workers’ rights/working condition to heavy support for the c-suite (not even counting the “rockstar” CEOs).

We’ve really vilified the poor. You’re poor because you’re dumb or don’t work hard. And speaking up…

We have created an asperational american mythology that we all could be rich someday. And we have done so for a very long time well over 100 years. We are raised believing the mertiocracy means the best people are the rich ones otherwise they would not be rich. I disagree but that is the poison of the lie of meritocrac…

You are going to be waiting for quite some time. It's unlikely the US would turn him over to the Hague.

America as I know it already died the day Trump was elected president.  

I consider separating children from their families and denying hungry people their SNAP benefits true atrocities. There’s more to come, I’m sure.  He isn’t smart enough, but he’s a puppet of Putin and the GOP and they are.