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You should see the bankruptcy plan for the refinery in Philadelphia that exploded *twice* recently. Workers let go with no notice, no severance. Senior execs got 4.5 mil bonuses each for, you know, their crappy management that led to the explosions and shutting of the facility, plus they will get 2.5 mil bonuses each (in addition to current compensation) to "navigate the business through bankruptcy" plus percentage incentives above that if they sell off the parts of the business above a particular target. And even more if they successfully settle a lawsuit they brought against the Feds for shuttering the facility because it kept exploding, killing people and poisoning the environment. Fork taxing the rich - put them in jail for crimes against humanity.

I love Bored Panda but SO MANY people here seem not to get sarcasm.

This is what Northwest Airlines execs told the flight attendant group during bankruptcy. They were told to go dumpster-diving. I s**t you not. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14410893/ns/business-small_business/t/airline-workers-told-go-dumpster-diving/#.Xd6bPOhKjIU

This list definitely goes to my wall!!

Yeah, this is brutally true

And they start their own new "charities" and get tax benefits for doing that, and employ family members in there - who get tax benefits. Instead of putting money somewhere that we KNOW works. Like redcross / crescent. Or Salvation Army. or.. pick your own favorite.

She doesn't know that in the USA roughly 40% of homeless people have jobs.

And where Bob Cratchit, the epitome of poverty, makes $10,000 a year more in today's money than a full-time worker on US minimum wage.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. To the point.

Which experts, exactly, say socialist economics don't work? Scandinavian countries and Germany would beg to differ

"Dear Billionaire, please give up 1/100th of your income (say, $10million) for the good of the healtha nd education and ECONOMY of the nation. You'll still be a billionaire! And we might be able to fix some sh*t." ---- signed, Common Sense. "Dear Common Sense: HOW DARE YOU! " --- signed (any given billionaire)

Solar, wind, tidal power etc is ready to go anytime society wants to switch over. The fossil fuel industry lobbies hard to stay in power.

And that's where people always get the "rich tax" wrong. It's only on earnings over a certain amount, in this case $10mil. The first 10 are taxed just like any other. By that logic you're saying "I only get a million dollars? Screw it, I'll take nothing instead".

In 1945, the tax rate for the upper class was over 60%, and in the 1950’s, corporations were taxed at 90%. Let’s go back to the good old days.

Yeah Russians are brain washing us

I couldn't do good poetry if I tried, this is great!

Frenchs are solidarity, Americans aren't

Good ol' effect and cause.

I thought the military-industrial complex gave us the internet - DARPA and whatnot.

This is a basic fact: PEople without money can't BUY. Ergo, businesses cna't make money. So, pay people enough to BUY things, and the companies will MAKE things, thus employing people who will then be able tO BUY thing... IF this was actually capitalism and not oligarchy.

Isn't that just monopoly?

Yep. That's how they work. "Oh, union dues are useless. Unions are corrupt." This coming from... Wall Street.

It. Is!

Holy cow!

I don't know about the word wealthphobic but the word afluenza is being used in the UK. As far as I can tell it means that the young adult children of rich people are not to blame for their lack of empathy, selfishness and general s****y behaviour because they are just too privileged to be expected to understand or care about others around them. Don't quote me on this but I believe that the first time it was used was by a lawyer representing a rich young man who was riding his expensive sports bike very fast on a pavement. It didn't have brakes. He shouted to the young mother to get out of his way but when she didn't react fast enough he ran her over and killed her. He showed no remorse during the trial but it's not his fault, he doesn't understand that killing is wrong because his daddy's rich. Afluenza! Rant over!

I call my love "Queen" because "the most powerful chess piece that each player has, able to move any number of unobstructed squares in any direction along a rank, file, or diagonal on which it stands."

We will be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us.

They say you get more conservative as you get older... In my 20s, I was a Menshevik Communist... Now, looking at 50, I'm more of a Democratic Socialist so, yea, I guess...

Well, it is

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Communism proscribes a system of "self-criticism," which is arguably much worse than rating each other.

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Dude that graph practically creates itself! POC!

me : Oh that's cute, Meghan :)

Stop viewing things in the past and have ideas and opinions formed from the present