Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

Many companies use workday for the job application process, which wants an account. Workday is a steaming pile of garbage.

You seem to have imagined a link between

This has to end, nobody is worth that much. Even if they were, they shouldn’t have that much, because nobody needs that much.

And

Billionaires are a symptom of a society that is sick.

as if they were trying to say that the people in the articles are billionaires. That’s illusionary. There’s a full stop.

This

will never be reasonable that some people make hundreds of times what other make on a full time job.

Was the point. That some are only millionaires is irrelevant. Billionaire is a subtype of “too rich” used as an example.

No fundamental facts are in error.

Billionaires are a subcategory of people with too much money.

But also what’s your point here? Just pedentry? Defending CEO wealth at this 614:1 ratio? Defending billionaires right to exist?

The initial goal post was “This has to end, nobody is worth that much.”, referring to CEOs making 614 times more than workers. Their wealth being in billions or millions was not mentioned. The goal post was not moved.

The sequence as I understand it is

• no one needs that much money
• billionaires have more than that much money. They don’t need it.
• you: none of the ceos are billionaires
• me: fine, but they still don’t need that much money.

If anything, you pointing out that the CEOs aren’t billionaires is a distraction from the point.

You can live a comfortable life with $5 million in the bank. No one needs $17m a year.

Conservatives want small government when it’s stuff they want to do, and big government when they don’t. In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind. Bad people. Cartoon villains.

Glad this judge seems sensible.

A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of

• labor: we want to paid in real money, and work less than 12 hours a day 6 days a week
• owner: no
• labor: then we’re going on strike
• owner, to the state: HELP
• the state: sends police and troops to do violence to labor

The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.

That and some people take excessive resources, and some people are willing to back them up in exchange for table scraps.

Trying to date someone who’s not interested in me sounds miserable.

Dating someone that I’m not into sounds cruel to them. Unless it’s clearly a, like, casual or otherwise non-invested situation, and they’re aware, but that also sounds hazardous.

My cat will go under the blankets in bed when it’s cold out. He figured this out after many years of living here. Some nights it still takes him a while to figure it out. He’ll jump on the bed. I’ll lift the blankets. He’ll peer under there like he’s never seen this scenario before in his life. After several cautious minutes he’ll usually settle down. If I try to speed up the process by putting the blankets on him, he’ll run out of the room

Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.

Not to overly repeat myself, but as discussed in the book “dying of whiteness”, there’s a lot of people that would rather their kid go hungry than a black kid get a meal.

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

From the other detailed coverage someone linked

Jones has no criminal history, according to court documents. He reported mental health treatment needs for schizophrenia.

This is downstream from the stochastic terrorism stuff. Right wing ghouls pump ideas out there about how trans folks are a danger, and eventually someone acts on it. The ghouls then go about their business with no consequences.

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Anyone who seriously advocates for abstinence only education is not qualified to speak on policy. That’s it.

We really need to do something so we have fewer scumbags and fools running our government.

These ice goons are lucky all they’re getting is mild push back.