Pearls of wisdom. Not the economics–because it is absurd, the reality not of “free market” competition but the reality of cronyism, corruption and greed. But, Dan Price saw the immorality of paying people shit and did something about it: he cut his pay and is raising everyone’s wages.
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“The market rate for me as a C.E.O. compared to a regular person is ridiculous, it’s absurd”
Posted on 14 April 2015.
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Jerking Around Workers: Schneiderman Thinking It May Not Be Legal
Posted on 13 April 2015.
Leave it to the managers and executives trying to squeeze the life out of workers to come up with the newest twist in brutal behavior, using the wondrous world of technology (you know, the thing that will save us all and make work even happier…not!) to make it all happen. Essentially, it goes like this: forget a work schedule you know in advance…the Great Wizard behind the work curtain may only decide to bestow upon you, the servant worker, the luck of some work just a few hours before you have to show up for the job.
Except it might be illegal. At least in New York.
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Slowdown: Paychecks Still Thin
Posted on 03 April 2015.
This is just a repeated point–repeated because it’s just so obvious, though it seems to escape the grey cells of transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”) and other analysts.
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NYTimes Rush To Judgement
Posted on 02 April 2015.
I’ve been irritated by this before but was moved to write and send–probably pointlessly to the tower of silence on 8th Avenue–the following to the Times’ Public Editor:
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Secret Offshore Accounts: Companies Dodging $600 Billion In Taxes
Posted on 02 April 2015.
Thirteen days away, tick tock, tick tock…everyone is getting ready to write those checks to the IRS for the money they owe on income earned–you know, the ones that fund highways, education, health care and, grumble, war.
Except for corporations, of course. It’s the same old story–dodge, dodge, dodge a fair share of taxes. $600 billion.
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BREAKING: Clintons Donate Millions From Legal Bribery, Declare Support FOR Street Revolution
Posted on 01 April 2015.
You got it…April Fool’s
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Wages Matter
Posted on 30 March 2015.
More about this later…many discussions about jobs at the UN but the question that always comes up in my mind: what do those jobs pay? There is a company right there in Bentonville that is happy to create lots of jobs even if people remain in poverty working for Wal-Mart wages.
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Ted’s Turds
Posted on 27 March 2015.
It is constantly a head-shaking opportunity to watch when the serious wing-nuts continue to shop ideas that have either been proven to be just wrong and/or hurt most people–even when the same wing-nuts peddle wacky ideas with promises of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for everyone. Ladies and gents, it’s Ted Cruz time.
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Three Reasons For The Estate Tax
Posted on 26 March 2015.
It’s pretty sad that we still have to make the argument that 4,700 estates (or the richest 0.18 percent all of estates) need to keep paying taxes on their estates. But, alas, there we are.
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BREAKING: WikiLeaks Leaks TPP Draft!!!
Posted on 25 March 2015.
Here it is, for the world to see.
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