The best explanation of corporate greed!

“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”

Yeah, no.

Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.

Only rich people would think this was a good idea.

Learn your history, people!

We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.

I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.

Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.

#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever

Bloomberg reported yesterday that if Sen. Sanders implemented his highly progressive tax plan, billionaires could face an effective tax rate of up to 97.5%. This will be met with complete apoplexy amongst the ruling-class, but, apart from the fact that it is entirely correct that governments use punitive tax regimes to discourage socially destructive behaviour such as ruthless exploitation and wealth hoarding, let’s put it in perspective.

If Jeff Bezos was hit by a 97.5% wealth tax, he would still be a billionaire. His fortune currently stands at roughly $108,200,000,000. After a Sanders wealth tax, he would still sit atop a hoard of almost $3.75bn. The tax from he alone would enable the federal government to wipe the debt of a million students (c. $50bn), to train half a million new grad nurses (c. $25bn), to pay the entire education budget of the five lowest spending states for a year (Utah + Idaho + Arizona + Oklahoma + Mississippi = c. $24bn) - and still, still have enough spare change to double federal spending on energy efficiency and renewable energy ($4bn).

And that’s just one big fish.

Put in that sort of context there is simply no moral justification for any individual to have the private enjoyment of the sort of wealth that could seriously adjust the social outcomes of a entire nation’s working-class.

Pitchforks are an extremely moderate and conservative reaction.

Bloomberg reported yesterday that if Sen. Sanders implemented his highly progressive tax plan, billionaires could face an effective tax rate of up to 97.5%. This will be met with complete apoplexy amongst the ruling-class, but, apart from the fact that it is entirely correct that governments use punitive tax regimes to discourage socially destructive behaviour such as ruthless exploitation and wealth hoarding, let’s put it in perspective.

If Jeff Bezos was hit by a 97.5% wealth tax, he would still be a billionaire. His fortune currently stands at roughly $108,200,000,000. After a Sanders wealth tax, he would still sit atop a hoard of almost $3.75bn. The tax from he alone would enable the federal government to wipe the debt of a million students (c. $50bn), to train half a million new grad nurses (c. $25bn), to pay the entire education budget of the five lowest spending states for a year (Utah + Idaho + Arizona + Oklahoma + Mississippi = c. $24bn) - and still, still have enough spare change to double federal spending on energy efficiency and renewable energy ($4bn).

And that’s just one big fish.

Put in that sort of context there is simply no moral justification for any individual to have the private enjoyment of the sort of wealth that could seriously adjust the social outcomes of a entire nation’s working-class.

Pitchforks are an extremely moderate and conservative reaction.

not to channel george orwell on main but nows the time to start keeping hammers next to every electrical device u own lol

last thing the device sees before I hammer it to death

all these networks are pulling their content from mainstream streaming services (Netflix, prime video, Hulu) and Hulu is pulling its app from blu ray players and services like Netflix are trying to add commercials to create more revenue and it’s like

we’re just going back to cable. we’re just going back to the circumstances that led to Netflix being created. and people are going to feel less and less bad about pirating because no one wants to pay for five million streaming services that don’t even necessarily protect you from ads

Absolute greed on main too. It’s not like these companies don’t already make a shit ton of profit. But it’s never enough, is it? Because the definition of success in our capitalist hellscape is a never ending increase in profit margin. If a company just maintains the same heinously unethical profit margin for a few years, you get econ hacks at Forbes or whatever writing pieces about how the company is “failing”.

this is such a fucking power move

and the weirdest twist is that of all the people in the world, Tucker fucking Carlson is supporting this as well

Okay I’m scratching my head at this twist tbh

Jeff Bezos is sitting on $97 billion because of stuff like this

Amazon made $47B in gross profits in 2016. They have 540,000 employees. 

If they gave every employee a $5/hr wage increase and increased their workforce by 10% to reduce time pressures on individual workers, it would cost them between $6B and $9B per year (assuming 40 to 60 hr average work week), still leaving about $40B in gross profits. That’s still a ridiculously huge amount of money being made.

But capitalists always want to squeeze out ever more profits and this is always done by exploiting workers.

Read the full thread here

this is honestly just so pure

this guy’s reviews are all unbelievably sweet

Amazon is among 3 tech giants yet to condemn Trump’s proposed Muslim registry

follow @the-future-now​

ok art friends i made a like joke about there being a suspiciously cheap cintiq up on amazon- turns out it’s a scam that a lot of new sellers are doing. you place an order and they send a fake “your order could not be shipped” email that contains viruses if you click on it.

so these sellers will turn up as “new sellers” on amazon and are targeting people buying expensive electronics (i’ve seen a ton while looking for cintiqs and stuff). some listings will show up horrendously cheap, and others just suspiciously cheap (for example: a cintiq 13hd for 400 dollars where they’re usually 800). most of the time they’ll have in the product description “CONTACT AT (EMAIL) BEFORE BUYING” forcing you to contact with them off site. don’t do it!!!

heres an article on whats poppin. be careful around this time of year and if you’re in doubt on the legitimacy of a seller on amazon ask for a second opinion or contact amazon (i would be glad to try and help if i can)

DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE CHRISTMAS AMZON GIFT CARD THING GOING AROUND

IT IS A SCAM, IT IS FAKE, IT IS NOT RUN BY AMAZON OR ITS AFFILIATED COMPANIES.

So, a lot of you are probably going to see this. It’s a website that looks like it’s owned by Amazon, with a very similar look to the page as well as a similar domain. It’s a nice looking website, and it has a security certificate attached to the name. 

The advertisements for it claim that you can either receive a $50 card for completing a survey, or  a $100 one for referring three people via social media

I personally tested this website out for legitimacy. I went through its surveys with fake information and a fake email/address and it sent me tons of spam. I also did a background check on the website, which turned up with results saying it is NOT SAFE and not run by Amazon or its affiliates.

.

DO NOT, AND I REPEAT, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK.

It will steal your information that you provide for it and send you waves upon waves of spam e-mails, as well as make automatic posts for you on whichever social media account you’ve given it. (You can disable it and remove permissions from this company by going to your connected apps page in your settings)

There are dozens upon dozens of scam accounts being made to promote this website. However, this is because the sites hijack your social media accounts and send out automatic posts promoting this scam with Amazon branding and very fancy, professional graphics. These aren’t real people promoting it.

If you see someone reblogging this, please email amazon at  [email protected] to help them take down this awful, illegitimate website!

Seriously this just popped up on my dash, please do not click it.