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Don't forget the perverted incentive for directors, who are appointed by shareholders, to keep shareholders happy. In a very real sense the more divid...
January 31, 2023 at 17:51
In: Brexit  — view comment
How's Bregret going for everyone? Fantastic growth numbers, easy to export goods too.
January 31, 2023 at 08:51
I was going for the flippant answer "half a brain" as an initial idea, which on introspection isn't even that bad. Happy to learn more about Sulawesi ...
January 27, 2023 at 16:40
When I was still working for the ministry of finance, they had a tendency to resist right to information requests, leading to those requests becoming ...
January 25, 2023 at 21:43
The only problem with porn is its simplistic narratives,. Plumber gets sex because woman doesn't have cash, casting director gets sex because she real...
January 24, 2023 at 06:58
Fidgetting with knobs and switches isn't going to change what is a structural problem. They're dealing with symptoms and if that's the best on offer t...
January 21, 2023 at 06:19
What about it? In my view, partners will be jointly and severally liable for the partnership, which are also those who have a right to the profits. No...
January 20, 2023 at 12:26
No, I want to prohibit for-profit corporations in toto. Corporations, eg. entities with limited liability, should only be allowed if they perform a pu...
January 20, 2023 at 07:15
Governments have always been perpetual, that's their primary nature and not something to be avoided. Government owned companies obviously can't be for...
January 20, 2023 at 07:13
I have no idea what this has to do with what I'm saying. I'm not arguing for governments to do more than to abolish laws allowing incorporation of for...
January 20, 2023 at 06:53
There's nothing wrong with partnerships wanting to make profit. For-profit corporations are the problem due to limited liability and perpetual nature....
January 20, 2023 at 06:46
Decorporate every company. Only companies that are non-profit and fulfill a general public utility should exist and once their goal is reached closed....
January 19, 2023 at 09:37
But it should be, right? A typical patient in the US is already a mother, over 20, unmarried, relatively poor and attended some college. Oh shit, it's...
January 18, 2023 at 22:44
Check our the Romans, Greeks and Assyrians who had abortions. Not the Persians. But native Americans did, what we at least know from the 1600s. So yes...
January 18, 2023 at 22:22
Why is a woman automatically "unhappy" when she wants an abortion? How about she just doesn't want one? Why isn't that a good enough reason? Why shoul...
January 18, 2023 at 22:03
I think it's a load of bull. Christianity has made abortion a moral issue. It never was one before and all of a sudden wanting an abortion is equated ...
January 18, 2023 at 21:38
@"unenlightened" I'm not symphatising with reluctant support as your proposed "solutions" don't solve being unwanted pregnant for 9 months and then go...
January 18, 2023 at 13:48
Aha, for me democratic participation includes activism and (grass roots) organisation and unionisation but good to know it elicits other connotations ...
January 18, 2023 at 13:21
There's no such thing as Marxism because he continuously changed his view on what ought to be done but his critique of capitalism is very good. Marx a...
January 18, 2023 at 13:20
Irrelevant since he didn't declassify them.
January 18, 2023 at 05:57
Maybe read Marx instead of relying on the caricature US society has made of him?
January 18, 2023 at 05:55
Are they unprofitable or are they forced to price their goods lower than they would because of competition from counties that don't have all sorts of ...
January 18, 2023 at 05:51
But isn't that just "politics by other means"?
January 18, 2023 at 05:48
Nevertheless, we've seen significant progress in environmental, health and safety standards, labour conditions, welfare, etc. under that restrictive f...
January 17, 2023 at 20:51
There's nothing inconsistent about it. I'm highlighting the most important difference between the two and why they aren't the same. Yet you prefer to ...
January 17, 2023 at 12:43
What's shameful is to equate Biden's lawyer's action to immediately call NARA upon discovery of the documents with Trump's refusal to return the docum...
January 16, 2023 at 19:16
I have my hopes up for regenerative economic activity. Economic activity as caretaker of the world for future generations.
January 14, 2023 at 14:20
So the question is why you need to be this recalcitrant trying to explain economics to someone who actually worked with asset managers. It makes for t...
January 14, 2023 at 06:42
As a defensive force you only need to field a third of any offensive force. Assuming EU members will support each other, how far/close are we to such ...
January 13, 2023 at 22:57
Really? What do you think his surplus value extraction was all about? Not about profit?
January 13, 2023 at 22:38
I don't think Marx was so prescient he wrote about problems that didn't exist until 100 years later. The industrialisation accelerated the outsized ro...
January 13, 2023 at 19:07
Says 200 years of reinforced economic theory (market economics) married now successfully to neoliberalism aka "culture".
January 13, 2023 at 18:01
That's defined in the statutes of the company and usually lies with the executive board members. But they are voted in by the shareholders, so any sha...
January 13, 2023 at 17:54
I'm contrasting that with equity.
January 13, 2023 at 17:45
You could do that with a loan too, which will have a pre-defined interest and end date instead of giving the right to perpetually earn whatever execut...
January 13, 2023 at 06:32
In: Bannings  — view comment
It's on the previous page of this thread...
January 13, 2023 at 06:28
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Yes. That genius truly shines through when you're silent.
January 12, 2023 at 16:58
In: Taxes  — view comment
Such politicians are a product of culture. We lack leadership and fidelity towards others. Not in the sense of vision but someone that can bind societ...
January 12, 2023 at 10:08
In: Taxes  — view comment
Actually, I think Spain is less corrupt in some areas. It's for instance much more open about what it pays for public procurement. Over 80% is publish...
January 12, 2023 at 06:11
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The Netherlands is every bit as corrupt as Spain and Mark Rutte is one of the most unethical prime ministers we've ever had. His opinion on ethical is...
January 12, 2023 at 06:09
In: Taxes  — view comment
Simply not true: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Spain&country2=Japan&city1=Madrid&city2=Tokyo&tracking=getDispatchC...
January 11, 2023 at 12:40
In: Taxes  — view comment
Holy fuck. 200k earning per year is really rich. That's C-level pay. Especially in Spain. How are you not considering this as rich?
January 11, 2023 at 10:11
I'm not sure what the benefits are of comparing which attrocities were worse. At some point the difference aren't meaningful and I think slavery, whet...
January 11, 2023 at 07:03
In: Bannings  — view comment
How about I don't spit in your popcorn?
January 10, 2023 at 22:03
No snow in the Alps. Watch what that will do to the Rhine come spring and summer. This is fucking up groundwater levels because we're the goddamn star...
January 10, 2023 at 22:02
In: Bannings  — view comment
Hand me some or close the thread.
January 10, 2023 at 21:57
I don't understand your apparent need to interpret my statement differently than as stated. I said:
January 09, 2023 at 21:11
That fantasy is all yours...
January 09, 2023 at 17:05
I think you don't become an elected official in Brasil without being corrupt.
January 09, 2023 at 15:51
https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-49847851
January 09, 2023 at 11:11