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Samsung strike: “I understand if the company is doing poorly they can’t give us our bonuses, but the fact that the executives took home huge bonuses last year, I can’t understand.” (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Allonzee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Society can't function when people only care about themselves, countries with robust social safetynets are happier. For all the GDP and mega yachts we generate, we're 23rd.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

And have the thing we crow about as our thing, when we're pathetic for that in the developed world, upward mobility. We're 27th.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Our culture hyper-individualism is quite honestly inhuman, it's a perverse point of pride to have about this cesspool of greed and rewarded sociopathic behavior, yet many do, smh.

Capitalism must be heavily regulated straight jacked to work for society if it is to work at all. We subsist in service to our economy here.