Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant. I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING. I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

He’s going after GM this morning, too.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

He’s going after GM this morning, too.

I found it interesting that yet again the union is getting blamed. CEO's get paid huge money and are just full of excuses. It's no wonder they're moving everything to countries where the environment and workers don't matter.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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That's very capitalist of POTUS, to tell a corporation how they should be running their affairs.

[dxmnkd316]

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/jami...or-behind.html

Huh. Either someone sees the guillotines cresting the horizon or he's had a stroke.

[5mn_Major]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/jami...or-behind.html

Huh. Either someone sees the guillotines cresting the horizon or he's had a stroke.

There's never been any solution for this problem. Education, jobs retraining and social safety nets are the closest we can come.

[Kepler]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/jami...or-behind.html

Huh. Either someone sees the guillotines cresting the horizon or he's had a stroke.

He's just still needling Sandy Weill over Ivanka, er, Jessica.

[Kepler]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

There's never been any solution for this problem. Education, jobs retraining and social safety nets are the closest we can come.

Jobs retraining doesn't work. The dole is the only social institution we've ever created for people put out of work.

Well, that and genocide. That works, too.

[St. Clown]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/jami...or-behind.html

Huh. Either someone sees the guillotines cresting the horizon or he's had a stroke.

No, what he's really saying is, The company's doing fine...for now. While the economy's been bifurcated, he's simply chopping off the tail of his thoughts.

He knows that banks make a lot of money off of people who really can't afford what they're purchasing, be it the credit card interest or overdraft charges. He needs people on the fringe of a healthy economy, not those left so far behind that they're relying on payday loans to purchase their products.

[5mn_Major]

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Jobs retraining doesn't work. The dole is the only social institution we've ever created for people put out of work.

Well, that and genocide. That works, too.

Job training may not have been as successful as possible...but that's on individual motivations, the implementation, and not the concept. And the dole is an important positive, but it just puts a few more dollars in the pockets of those left behind...not help them move forward.

[rufus]

There's never been any solution for this problem. Education, jobs retraining and social safety nets are the closest we can come.

How about whatever the guy's name is, running for pres, something Wang. Guaranteed minimum income for everyone over 18. $1000/ month.

But yeah, I know, that's SOCIALISM!!!

[Rover]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

How about whatever the guy's name is, running for pres, something Wang. Guaranteed minimum income for everyone over 18. $1000/ month.

But yeah, I know, that's SOCIALISM!!!

Why are we giving Donald Trump and the Kardashians a guaranteed minimum income again?

[GrinCDXX]

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This class action lawsuit against the National Realtors Association (and others) seems like it could be a pretty big deal.

If the court rules in favor of the plaintiffs here, Realtor associations evaporate, the MLS likely dies off, and the entire infrastructure of residential real estate in the United States has to be remade.

https://www.inman.com/2019/03/08/wha...-realtors/amp/

[Kepler]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

Job training may not have been as successful as possible...but that's on individual motivations, the implementation, and not the concept.

No. It is a classic example of something that sounds lovely and has exactly zero actual value in the real world.

You would be better off just lighting the dollars on fire. At least the recipients would be warm then.

Sometimes bullsh-t is just bullsh-t. "Just say no." "Thoughts and prayers." And this. Magical thinking.

[Rover]

Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

No. It is a classic example of something that sounds lovely and has exactly zero actual value in the real world.

You would be better off just lighting the dollars on fire. At least the recipients would be warm then.

Sometimes bullsh-t is just bullsh-t. "Just say no." "Thoughts and prayers." And this. Magical thinking.

I hear ya. Worst thing that ever happened to the Rhode Island economy, particularly Providence, is when the feds put the Mafia out of business! Skills such as leg breaking, get away driver, and body disposal just don't translate into biotech or computer programming. **** government.