Yes but anyone spending real money looking for a Pollock painting will be able to tell, or have an appraiser who can tell.

Yes, those are certainly all words that you’ve posted. 

I’m willing to bet this money wasn’t exactly “hard-earned”.

My four- and seven-year-old boys love squid game, despite having never seen the show, only derivative content.

What comes after late-stage capitalism?

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Take up arms, brother, for the solution is simple: seize the means of protection from the bourgeoisie and let the workers prevail!

Every state with a river also has an interstate. Therefore rivers and interstates are the same thing. 

At will and right to work are completely different concepts.

My ears were burning. 

This isn’t right to work so much as at-will employment. At-will employment is a good thing for both employers and employees, it means you’re not contractually obligated to stay in a shitty job.

No, but part of providing public education is making sure people can get to it. And in places where public transit and walkability don’t exist, school buses are a usable public option to manage that. 

Wait, you’re telling me that moving from pensions to 401(k) plans was done as a benefit primarily to the company and not the worker??? No way! 

Good thing I didn’t say public school doesn’t cost anything.

Ooh, $68k in LA County. Pissing in high cotton now. 

This depends on company policy. Some companies offer actual paid military leave, some companies offer differential pay, some only allow unpaid leave. They must allow you the time, they don’t have to pay you for it, though. 

So then just cancel the national guard in the meantime?

Charging kids to go to public school is the complete opposite of what public schools exist for. 

Ah, yes, cut teacher benefits. Great solution. Those damn teachers are all overcompensated anyway. Did you know they can get sick all summer and not have to take a single day of sick leave?

They are subject to the free market in the sense that they have to compete for talent with private employers. For bus drivers, the option is “you can drive a bus, or you can not drive a bus.” So the school needs to make bus driving attractive enough to outweigh the negatives. Which is hard enough in the best of times,…