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stormqloud
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Comment #26581538
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Comment #26581482
They pay just enough to survive, but not enough to plan for the future, improve your position in life, or be finacially stable enough to be a thoughtcrime troublemaker.
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Comment #26581405
Walmart, amazon etc They all have local contractors to handle the messy work of beatings, imprisonment. "work will set you free". Bonus points for where that comes from.
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Comment #26581371
https://www.cadmatic.com/en/resources/articles/does-one-ship... Fixing the environment is no more complicated then making our products in our own countries and paying appropriate w…
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Comment #26581322
The only people that benefit from the current system are the executive for fortune 500 companies. They buy junk to sell us made by slaves, they capture 99% of the profit in the imp…
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Comment #26581286
The people who work at amazon warehouses are slaves too. Being a slave is about being abused in a working environment. It has nothing to do with racism. They make the crap, make sl…
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Comment #26580454
Funny how nobody mentions 15 large container ships like this generate as much emissions as all the cars in the world combined. It's almost like buying products from slaves in Asia …
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Comment #26569394
In politics most companies hedge their bets. They give equally to both political parties. It doesn't matter who wins the elections, they have a guaranteed inside track. It's just t…
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Comment #26569352
If I had not bought a house, I would have no savings. Yay inflation. Jobs don't pay enough and social security won't be there when you need it. Anyone that is thinking of depending…
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Comment #26567996
Personally I'm not spending any more xmas or New Year's eve in data centers fixing stuff. Been there, done that
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Comment #26567962
Companies like this hire based on how much they suspect they can push the employee to produce beyond what they need to pay them. Recent immigrants are fertile territory. They don't…
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Comment #26567096
Our favorite globalist progressive companies with all the right virtue signalling about diversity, move jobs to country with fewer laws everytime something gets unionized. They do …
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Comment #26567054
It's classic divide and conquer strategy. The peasants are too distracted fighting about idiocy like whether a drug is republican or democrat. Meanwhile the billionaire's are carvi…
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Comment #26555581
Tires conglomerate, that started a communications company. Nokia tires are pretty good.
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Comment #26543841
Next level of blue screen. I would suspect stars of the future will be similar to "manufactured" and business formed bands of the past. Sign up a youngster for a small fee. Scan th…
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Comment #26543602
The deep fake technology will kill the video star. Movies will be made more and more with this tech to save $$ on casts. There is already so much noise pretending to be news that f…
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Comment #26524799
You are talking about union construction workers here. They are only used on commercial jobs mostly.due to the price. All the good trade people work commercial and get paid well. R…
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Comment #26524777
In Canada the top rate of 50 percent hits anyone making over $60k Usd for comparison. Most trades in Canada are max tax rate, because the max tax rate kicks in at extremely low lev…
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Comment #26523930
Fronting the money for the supplies usually comes from the fact the tradesperson went on a bender after you paid him last time! Also in the area where I live, most home trade jobs …
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Comment #26523689
This is highly country and legal environment dependant. Very difficult to scale. Often a tradesperson can secure a lien on a property as part of their permit for that job. If the t…
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Comment #26504620
China causes most of the world's pollution all by itself, so I just never buy Chinease products if I can help it.
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Comment #26495867
Amazon 'jobs' are what slavery in USA in 2021 looks like. Amazon knows it takes govt decades to catch up with laws. Subcontract out all the really nasty business so they can preten…
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Comment #26491488
Leftist extremism doesn't exist. Look how many years they spent telling us Islam is a religion of peace and calling every islamic attach on society a lone wolf attack. Cognitive di…
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Comment #26470248
My soldering iron is like 30 years old and has 1 to 10 dial. Works great the few times I use it.
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Comment #26470012
I'm still trying to understand why they sell a soldering iron with a cpu and os.