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Bloomberg: Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be
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This is why I wanna punch everyone who cries about "entitlement", "handouts", and the "free market"
Having people subsidize giant corporations is fucking trash, and then stupid fucks talk about "they give jerbs! Teh jerb creat0rs!!!" Fuck off.
Having people subsidize giant corporations is fucking trash, and then stupid fucks talk about "they give jerbs! Teh jerb creat0rs!!!" Fuck off.
How unbelievably naive.
This is very upsetting. Will shop elsewhere whenever possible.
Where they're in a constant struggle with would be oligarchs constantly lobbying to erode social welfare programs and give them more power to actively ruin the lives and livelyhood of the common people and losing once means they descend into a U.S. style shit show.
Took you also 19 posts to respond, so today must be a slow day in general.
Dominion is to blame for this, and the stupid Virginia delegates that allowed this to happen.
This is right outside of Washington DC. Maybe read the article before posting shit.
This is right outside of Washington DC. Maybe read the article before posting shit.
Enough of this bullshit.
"39 year old man had sex with 15 year old girl. It's okay because 15 is the age of consent here, don't hate the player hate the game!"
Laws and loopholes do not make immoral, bad things okay.
Government is a reflection of its constituency. The US government's constituency is corporations and the super rich. Corporations literally own our government and write our laws, and ignorant, apathetic voters let them.
What can even be done? I feel like stories on silicon valley financial shadiness and tax dodging come out every few months and they barely register anymore. depressing as fuck
Whoops, misread the bit where they talk about another (but similar) incident in Ohio, my bad.
I know this is a joke post, but it really is the problem. Someone at Amazon probably got a raise for engineering this. People fucking over other people under the guise of "I'm just doing my job and representing the shareholders" is a big fucking problem in this country.
We also have some awful elected officials.
Thats the sad part about it. Feels like nothing can be done. All of our politicians are in these people's pockets. Any politician who tries to come up and fight against this shit just gets bludgeoned with attack ads and no support from their party. I'm not sure what the answer is.
I used to yell at people with an "Eat the rich" mentality about how dangerous it is. But as this shit keeps happening...what else is left?
A lot of these red states and counties are very anti renewables. Mostly because they have coal industries.
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Capitalism demands oligarchy.
Please produce those mythical countries with a 0 Gini coefficient.
yea well, get with the fucking times. When there are more yoga instructors in the US than there are coal industry jobs, you might have a problem
or better yet instead of wasting your time in dying coal, learn renewables, there's going to be plenty of jobs in renewables for a while.
Hey you poor bastard, Pay your bill or you're cut off!
You're one of the rich companies on the planet earth...we can help you with not paying that bill.
You're one of the rich companies on the planet earth...we can help you with not paying that bill.
I'm sure a lot of people say this, but still order from them. I've actually decided to avoid them, and started this a few months ago. I have one remaining $30 off preorder for Spider-Man, and that's the last one. I've bought around $800 in books over the past couple weeks and not a single one from Amazon. I get my games from the local shop or EB. I even bought a bike rack from a local store, paying around $50 more, just to avoid amazon.
He'd rather spend money on space than on good wages for his employees. There's not much in way of good redeeming qualities for Bezos.
lol yeah right, no one that says they are "done with Amazon" is actually ever done with Amazon. You will come crawling back.
Just because it's hard to boycott all of their products and services doesn't mean you shouldn't try to stop using some.
Also, if you're concerned about services hosted on AWS, the move is to pressure companies to switch to a different hosting solution, not giving up.
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Personally, I think it's easier to go at them legislatively, but that doesn't mean I don't try to reduce the amount of money I pay to them as much as possible on a personal level.
The price of outsourcing manufacturing was creating and solidifying new oligarchs that utilize automation with no plans of replacing human labor at the same levels. Otherwise, what's the point of automation? And the consolidation of wealth and power is proof that economists propping neoliberal policies failed to understand the inevitable fallout of their policy decisions to afford what is actually corporate welfare and welfare for the rich (I.e., circumventing of domestic labor and environmental laws) "to get cheap shoes and electronics". Unfortunately, it also came at the expense of livelihoods robust enough to procure the important assets in life (house, car, education, and healthcare).
That's how much the cheap cloths and iPhones actually cost.
That's how much the cheap cloths and iPhones actually cost.
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It's the two working together and that shouldn't be.
In democratic countries the government exists to safeguard the interests of the masses, not to further the interests of the few.
"If they can survive slavery, they can survive higher electric bills LOL!" - Amazon Board transcripts.
