Wenn der für 1% der Gesellschaft politisiert, dann soll er auch nur mehr 1% der Stimmen bekommen. Und nicht Stimmen von den Leuten, die - auch von ihm angelogen - hoffen, irgendwann einmal zu den 1% zu gehören. Richtig? #eattherich#taxthepolluters#draintheswamp
wir könnten das vermögen von reichen angehen, um die bahn zu sanieren oder autofahrer*innen zur kasse bitten.
oder ein ferengi-geführtes finanzministerium verscherbelt tafelsilber günstig an reiche.
ich bin es echt leid. infrastruktur gehört in die öffentliche hand und an der öffentlichen hand haben sich auch schwarz, klatten, albrecht und co. mit ihrem vermögen zu beteiligen. #EatTheRich
#Sylt und so... Wir sind an nem Punkt, an dem ich davon ausgehe, dass "L'amour toujours" mittlerweile Dogwhistle ist, dh dass DJs das mit ner bestimmten Intention spielen (ähnl wie bei der Titelmelodie von "Paulchen Panther" .... #nsu)
Die andere Erklärung wär unfassbare ignorante Naivität, was ich mir aber beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen kann.
Miese Fascho-Vereinnahmung eines Songs, den ich seinerzeit rauf und runter gehört hab😓
People should feel cheated, but the system is working exactly as designed.
Extract all the wealth pass it on to the richest keep wages down turn housing into a commodity and let the lower middle wealth brackets fight it out and blame each other and anyone else the rich say is the enemy.
So, super fancy, exclusive restaurant catering to wealthy diners rips off its customers, harasses and steals from its employees, then washes its hands by gifting real estate to a proselytizing Christian organization that provides housing and meals to people who have been pushed down, abused, and displaced by the kinds of people who endure a waitlist of up to year, jet to a dining destination, and pay $500 for dinner. Can’t help but think this illustrates the capitalism circle of life.
The Willows Inn, a super fancy, fine-dining, farm-to-table, restaurant on a remote island near Bellingham, WA, that the New York Times in 2011 labeled "one of 10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride,” had a precipitous fall from grace in 2022. Now, the property is selling, and the proceeds will benefit Lighthouse Mission Ministries, a shelter for the unhoused.
In its heyday, as it topped the culinary world's best restaurant lists, fraud and abuse festered behind the scenes.
Employees alleged a nightmare environment of sexual harassment, bullying, misogyny, and racism.
The Willows Inn paid $1.37 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for wage theft.
Turns out, the restaurant's "farm-to-table" claims also fell short. Some of the supposed locally sourced and foraged food actually came from random grocery stores and even Costco. At $500 a plate, that’s not what you bargained for.
To make amends, the former owners, Tim and Marcia McEvoy, donated the property to Bellingham’s Lighthouse Mission, a Christian organization that provides shelter and services to the unhoused (and only hires Christians). The property, reportedly worth about $2.4 million, has accepted an offer and is expected to change hands soon.
Markets - Where did all the stocks go?
Public Companies In Decline
The number of public companies has fallen fast by Matt Phillips, David Crowther 4/28/24
"...After analyzing the effects of mergers, private-equity investment, and regulatory costs, the paper suggests that M&A is the main culprit. (Though they do theorize that higher costs associated with regulation could be a less important contributing factor.)
“Mergers seem to be the biggest driver of this trend,” Ali Sanati told Sherwood. Sanati is a finance professor at the American University in Washington, DC, and a coauthor of the 2023 paper.
The authors categorized mergers according to various financial metrics, noting that mergers motivated around financing and innovation “are the ones that effectively reduce the number of U.S. listings.”
By Mary Wildfire, originally published by Resilience.org May 14, 2024
"...A sociopath is by definition selfish, concerned only about getting what he or she wants and unconcerned about anyone else’s needs. And what is it that they want? Usually wealth. Some—the narcissists—also want the spotlight, want fame and adulation. Some crave power for its own sake, aside from the need to use power to get more wealth. Some don’t care about either of those. But mostly, it seems, what the billionaires want is more money. They have more money than they could spend in twenty lifetimes but they still are willing to sacrifice our children’s future to get even more money. This is remarkably narrow thinking, a fascination with numbers—you might even call it machinelike..."
Lindner will Steuerentlastung für Spitzenverdiener durchsetzen (www.tagesschau.de) German