politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
He might be a shitty Doogie Howser knockoff, but he wasn't born as mayor. 🙄
Before that, he worked as a consultant for the profiteering maximization firm McKinsey for 3 years.
So, you're telling me he worked for an investment firm and played a market? I'm shocked. Next thing you'll be telling me is that as a DA, Harris put too many people in jail.
But, you know the story you won't tell? That they created several million dollar businesses and sent them into bankruptcy, leaving the little guy holding the bag.
Why? Because, they were actually good at their jobs.
When your job is extracting as much money as possible, including via unnecessary mass layoffs, being good at your job is a BAD thing.
His job was to help screw workers over to maximize the wealth of already rich people and to a certain degree, it still is.
Spoken like a guy who has never been in business. Maximizing profit is what you are paid to do. I've worked for large corporations and created small companies. Without the realization of that fact, you cannot be successful in either.
Which is a societal disease, not an immutable fact of life. Seeking profit maximizing at the expense of the workers and/or the quality of the product or service you offer is not virtuous or natural.
That's just false. Many of us would consider providing a good product or service and providing gainful employment the end goals of commerce. Not maximizing profit at the expense of everything else like a goddamn parasite.
It's not a disease for anybody who believes in free enterprise. It's true for management and workers.
Building good product and services is a way to maximize profits. It really isn't an either/or situation.
Like religion, that's a concept the powerful made up to control the market.
Truly "free" enterprise, IE unburdened by regulations, inevitably ends up with the powerful dominating the powerless.
As I'm sure you'd agree, being dominated by someone who's more powerful than you is nobody's idea of free. In fact, even if you're into it, it tends to be rather expensive.
That used to be the case, sure, but nowadays there's all sorts of ways to tweak profits that necessitates compromising on either quality (including treatment of workers) or profits.
So if you want to maximize (achieve the maximum of) profits, you literally have to compromise the quality, how you treat your workers, or both. Almost all companies do both.
I've only seen such opinions from Iron curtain countries that strive to get enough toilet. paper. Good luck with that, btw.
It's not my fault you live in a bubble of people with no class consciousness or solidarity with the exploited majority.
Good luck with that. And congratulations on always having enough toilet, paper.