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Baloo UrizaEvery #NYT story lately.
I have no idea where this image originated and take no credit.
jollyrogue@BalooUriza I think I’ve seen this at some Democratic election events.
Boswell@BalooUriza Sad but true, it's the bandwagon of the "I have this brilliant idea that will help the world. By 'brilliant idea' I mean littered with problems but my brilliant cohort of lawyers will sort that, and by 'world' i mean me and my ambitions of siphoning money off the world"
Ben@BalooUriza all the news that prints to fit
Rab Bruce’s Spider@BalooUriza @JMacfie Nice one. This could also apply to the majority of major newspapers in the UK. In Scotland, we get a variant along the lines of “It would be a disaster for Scotland to become independent”, written by someone who has a vested interest in maintaining the constitutional status quo.
Queen of Teacups@RabBrucesSpider1 @BalooUriza But call me an idealistic old hippy - I expected better of the Guardian.
@JMacfie @BalooUriza They can sometimes be better than others, but they remain essentially an English newspaper, and their Scotland correspondent is an ardent Unionist.
RodneyPetersonTalentAgencyBari Weiss. Christ, what a fucking cunt.
ben@BalooUriza @lisamelton Why not? Some rich guy would.
A. RiveraI see the #RealOwners are saying the quiet part out loud again.
Kid ManiaRight...?
For example:
Musk: I'm gonna piss on all the blue check marks.
NYT headlines the next day:
"Why Urine is Good For You"
"How I was the First to Be in Line"
"Clothing for being Urinated On: Is plastic cool?"
"Kanye: Elon pissed on me too!"
@BalooUriza The biggest myth is the belief that if rich people didn't have so much money you or others would be better off.
There is no sure thing as a finite amount of money, for example a rich person doesn't take 90% leaving leaving everybody to share 10% because at any moment any person can earn or make enough money to become rich themselves.
50 years ago only the rich became richer, not today.
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)@SonOfClement @BalooUriza Okaaaay. I hope that boot is less tasty than you’re making it look.
★ Amy Star ★@BalooUriza you had me until "lately"
they've been a right-wing rag clinging to the veneer of respectability since its inception
PetterOfCats@BalooUriza Eat the Rich
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@BalooUriza eat the Rich
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur@BalooUriza I’m laughing and crying, because it’s funny but true.
Ajax B. Coriander@BalooUriza this is so true it hurts XD
Peter Principle"All the News That's Fit To Print for Rich Assholes."
Chris ♾️@BalooUriza Sounds like an empty threat.
If we inconvenience rich assholes, they're going to do what they were already going to do and be mad about it? OK, tar and feathers have entered the chat
If we inconvenience rich assholes, they're going to do what they were already going to do and be mad about it? OK, tar and feathers have entered the chat
catsynth / amanda c@BalooUriza I thought it was ״why we need to empathize with transphobes” 🙄
Amelie Wikström
Ether Diver@BalooUriza by lately, you mean AT LEAST since the early 90s, right?
kira :3@BalooUriza also their other category, "Talking Point That Literally Only Neo Nazis Care About Disguised As Reasonable Politics by Trevor M. Swastika"
Xander Zzyzx of Springtime@BalooUriza Like every Postmedia owned newspaper in this country.
KatLS@BalooUriza spot on.😖
Michele Garbarino@BalooUriza sounds like the Telegraph in the UK
Strypey@BalooUriza
> Every NYT story lately [simping for the billionaire class needing to be richer]
I appreciated people like Nick Hanauer who break this pattern:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/opinion/overtime-pay-a-lifeline-for-the-overworked-american.html
I wish I had more time to listen to the podcast where he interviews heterodox economists about why the wealthy need to pay more tax, minimum wages need to be higher, etc:
http://www.pitchforkeconomics.com
"There are no examples in the known universe in which force didn’t equal mass times acceleration. But the same cannot be said for the “theory” that if wages go up, employment will go down. It’s not always true. It’s not even that it’s almost always true—it isn’t even usually true."
#NickHanauer, 2015
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/economic-theory-science-scam
Is trickle-down economics science or scam?
In this column, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer critizes the theory that a higher minimum wage will cause increased unemployment. Going further, he suggests that economic theories in general are not science, but merely social and moral constructs.
"Thus, the claim that when wages go up for low-wage workers, employment will go down isn’t really a legitimate “theory.” Rather, it’s best understood as a claim designed to influence how people explain the world around them, and by doing so, control people’s behavior. I think of this so-called theory as more of a scam or a confidence game."
#NickHanauer, 2015
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/economic-theory-science-scam
Is trickle-down economics science or scam?
In this column, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer critizes the theory that a higher minimum wage will cause increased unemployment. Going further, he suggests that economic theories in general are not science, but merely social and moral constructs.
"The real magic of trickle-down economics, by the way, isn’t to convince people that if the rich get richer, that’s good for the economy and therefore good for you. The real power comes from convincing people that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy and bad for you.
This is why economics is often less science and more scam."
#NickHanauer, 2015
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/economic-theory-science-scam
Is trickle-down economics science or scam?
In this column, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer critizes the theory that a higher minimum wage will cause increased unemployment. Going further, he suggests that economic theories in general are not science, but merely social and moral constructs.
"I’m not asserting that everyone who subscribes to this “theory” secretly knows it isn’t true but says it anyway. On the contrary, the people who say it usually believe it... if you are a person who pays wages or are sympathetic to those who do so, the theory that if wages go up, employment comes down is a very attractive thing to believe and to promulgate. After all, if I run a business, your wages are my profits."
#NickHanauer, 2015
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/economic-theory-science-scam
Is trickle-down economics science or scam?
In this column, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer critizes the theory that a higher minimum wage will cause increased unemployment. Going further, he suggests that economic theories in general are not science, but merely social and moral constructs.
How would Marxist class theory explain a Nick Hanauer?
Is it a limited hangout? Promulgating social democratic ideas to keep people from discovering revolutionary forms of socialism?
Is it an example of a less powerful faction of the ruling class, angling to increase their power during the next big upheaval that takes down the dominant factions?
Or is he just a rare example of a smart person who can't help calling bullshit when were sees it, regardless of his class interests?
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@BalooUriza I know a guy who basically says that every time I post something criticizing billionaires.
Moonglum@BalooUriza So great 😂😂😂
Canadian Crone
Neil E. Hodges@BalooUriza The people who push the kinds of thoughts in this post are one or more of:
- Rich people
- Paid by rich people
- If not (2), they are just brown nosers who are hoping for a piece of the pie
Error Crater@BalooUriza i believe credit is due to The Onion
Blippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)@BalooUriza
Eat the rich.
Figuratively, not literally, but #MulchTheRich doesn't have the same ring to it.
Aviva Gary@BalooUriza only lately? 👀
rat (mibioctet)@BalooUriza leopards eating your face is a good thing, actually, according to the leopard eating my face