Citizens United

@@user-pg3ti3vc5g which is the most ironic name for something taking AWAY People's voting rights ever. 😪

Stock buy backs.

@@Mellowcanuck33 absolutely. 😪

It went to the supreme court, who determined a company only has a responsibility to it's shareholders, none to their employees.

Corporations want to depress wages and exert control, but hatred for the poor and immigrants blind Americans to Corporations.

Makes you wonder if there are actually “Nonprofit” businesses anymore or if it is literally only a 501(c) tax code cheat to rob our tax system coming and going? I am sorry you and other workers had to go through all of the abuse.

300k is tiny for ceo of such a large company. Especially since non for profit means he has no equity. PTO is a pretty normal practice. There is definitely crazy wealth collections at the top, but this is a bad example.

$300k is chump change, buddy. C-suite execs at my firm are pulling over $450k. Hell even senior staff members make $250k CEO’s pay is more like $8-$15m

300k is the most reasonable CEO salary I ever ever heard of. There’s literally nothing to complain about with 300k. CEOs usually take in millions.

And it CANNOT be like this anymore.

and maga will say shut up and work for free slave

Yep. Only the people on the very top make livable wages anymore. Sad times.

Plus one on the hospital notes. I work in a hospital here in Boston, and I can tell you first hand that it continues to be one of the worst and most stressful financial environments in the country. Not only do they cut our bonuses in our incentives, but they continue to give us a 2% raise, while major corporate entities and shareholders get 50 to 80% raises every single year, and bonuses, on top of that, while inflation stays stagnant at 30 plus percent in the city. We don't get free parking, we don't get a free accommodations on the train services, hell, we don't even get free lunch, and the lunch at our hospital is f****** terrible. Pay us back for all the money we get in, pay back into the system, and get nothing in return, and the hospitals wonder why nobody wants to work for them anymore, and they're constantly having to push DEI hires just to be able to fill the gaps in. Come on to make it look good for investors. It's despicable.

@@travisalexphoto why is it the 2 most valuable jobs nursing and teaching are the worst paid by capitalists while lazy nepo babies make millions because of their daddy and grand daddy for doing nothing

Your first mistake is working at burger king for 27 years

​@@lv1543you're cruel.

@@scifirealism5943 but not wrong. If you just stay at a place expecting anything without it being in writing and signed by both parties, you fucked beyond belief. You had plenty of time to look for another job.

@lv1543 not everyone can "get better jobs."

@@lv1543Maybe they did look. Reality is there isn’t enough jobs to go around for everybody under capitalism

WOW! Don’t mean that sarcastically what so ever. Reviewing the EBITA of companies I invest in and think about investing in.. I’ve noticed that the past two years have given every company I’ve looked at record profits. Record free cash.. and debts that are paid off. Many corporations say we needed to make up for the pandemic times.. but, my research shows that the biggest losers during the pandemic were American small business. Businesses that do over $100 million a year.. well… the loses were not big enough to equate to the kind of profits they are seeing now.

No, they’re probably reserving the profits for a stock buyback, which manipulates the earnings per share and raises the stock value and essentially gives the executives your bonus by inflating the value of the stock offers they get as part of their executive compensation packages.

Yeah at that point you gotta run

​@@eziahjohnson167run where? There is no escape from this behavior

I love the “competitive pay” spiel, I always ask what they’re competing, with poverty?

The old timers at my place tell me about how they used to be able to drink and take it easy during the week of the holidays, how the pay was amazing, even the janitors were making 100k back in the day, although most of it was because of working tons of overtime. Still, after inflation, it's probably worth almost 200k today. The generous wages and laid back environment has gone away and now things aren't as good as they used to be.

I’m a UAW member 17 years . Last year was the first vacation we could afford and it was staying in a cabin 20 minutes from my mom’s house for 4 days . Cost 2k and it impacted what we could do at Christmas

Could bulldoze some golf courses.

Waaaaaaaaaa. Whiny bums

R.I.P. Mr. Carlin. Could you envision him alive today? 1 special and he would have awaken the masses!

- George Carlin

@@mikemann1960 He was talking about it years ago before he died, he was years ahead. You can look at his stuff now, and it's still 100% relevant. this shits been going on for decades, it's really starting to affect those in the middle class now more, or what would have been a middle class job years ago. The corporations have only squeezed harder and harder.

If you adjust for inflation a lot of workers are actually making less than they have historically

Productivity and wages haven’t kept pace since 1970.

WAYYYYYY less

The CEO doesn't care about you. He care about stock holders and investors. The CEO themselves have a golden parachute and severance package if things go south.

@@gregorylyon1004 we are all slaves to corporations

That fiction/fiction that includes that doesnt also include licing under a bridge? Is the one under the bridge not doing much slave labor? Cavemen style human slaves is fine with me. Isnt it with you?

Yeah, sure.

Welcome to my life

True.

I'm living the dream apparently.

so long you dont force anyone to join your cause and pay the "monthly union fee"...

@@helium3894 it's not monthly, it's quarterly. and it more than pays for itself. my hourly rate is more than 50% higher than it was pre-contract.

@@helium3894 so if a union is voted in negotiators should work for free?

@@goblinzl1 feel free to apply 2 tiers of salary...any raise or cut only affects unionized workers...problem solved...

@@helium3894 are you in management? ill bet you are. how about everyone makes the same for the same job? heres how it works. union voted in you join. if not you dont join. problem solved.

Oh man, insurance is a total scam! A friend basically subsidized Farmers for 18 months before they realized they were NEVER going to make any money. By churning through the naive newbies, they base their business model on being subsidized by their WORKERS!

@@dudeonbike800 This also applies to the claims side of insurance.

I have a brother in law that worked for Allstate for over 30 years starting out as an adjuster and by the time he was laid off he was a branch manager. At some point in his career it was actually cheaper for him to get his insurance needs from another company despite his employee discount with Allstate.

insulting isn't it! I worked for tivo and they gave us a free tivo...but i absolutely could not afford the monthly service for the tivo. does that make any sense. it was just a paperweight at that point.

Welcome to capitalism! We've had this same predatory system for millennia and they'll never let us try anything else heh

On a planet with limited resources, greed is also "the desire for more".

I call that gluttony to distinguish from common greed.

@@3nertiait is not capitalism when corporations are given more rights than non corporate businesses and individuals, that is corruption and government control.

@@5400bowen call it what you want, it's awful in every shape or form. Greed/Gluttony is NEVER good.

Still is. They hold the town hostage with threats to move unless they’re given a competitive tax break.and have gotten more and more benefits from the state and county while treating workers much worse, it’s still THE job it just is t the job it used to be! If Toyota left then Georgetowns budget would be in the red within the first month, the town is now built and owned by Toyota.

unions have taken more money from people than they've given... the problem isnt no unions. the problem is the people who tolerate and emulate monarchy. and everyone who sits idly by and says its ok to do so. allowing entrenched corruption to remain and fester until there is literally overt slavery happening again while people call it willful employment lmao

no if they unionize they gonna start producing crappy cars like the big 3, no to Unions

2.5 billion in profit is nothing when your $220 billion in debt and growing. They are failing

This

Excuse me, at this point, we demand. Employers have been giving employees the shaft for DECADES. Wages have not increased in 15 years+!!! My parents worked for decades at the same job their entire career, pay raises, bonuses, company get to get togethers, holiday parties.... WHAT THE CRAP do employees have TODAY. WE, THE WORKERS, have been moving BACKWARDS! I, for one, am sick of it!!! Big business is keeping to much of the buyers money, and not sharing it with workers. It's all about greed on the side of all these big conglomerates.

Union all the way. U-tube Harlan County USA. It is the best Union documentary ever made. Pass it on.

@@robinlindberg6339 When you act like that, many workers who would otherwise join your cause stay home. Contrary to the tone that is warranted by the history lesson you shared, simple folk don't want to be apart of loud violence any more than they want to be taken advantage of by a broken system.

​@@jakehix8132if you join the military you can get both. Violence and exploitation.

My friend's dad growing up worked at one of the local grocery stores. You'd think its not all that great, yet he earned enough to own a 1500 sq ft house on a 3000 sq ft lot and when he fell at work and had to retire early, his UNION took care of him. 1980s Ohio.

Plenty of people do great there now.

@@bartdoo5757 Yes shocking people higher up make a better wage...Imagine if they had a union, they would be doing even better. And Toyota would still be making billions in profit.

@@spencers4121 Not everyone working for a union job makes more money than a non union.

Inflation.

Not a bad idea, but it's such a rare few that can do that nor would want to. It sucks that you locked yourself into not leaving town, but if the need arises I guess you could always rent a vehicle for the purpose as you would have to pay their expensive insurance for the duration as it would still be cheaper than owing your own vehicle.

​@@michaelb.8953 buy a prius 3rd gen. In Canada you can get a good one for 10 000 (so around 7500 us). Really cheap on gas and extreamely reliable. I have have seen many with 500 000 km and plus.

50-70k for a vehicle it's stupid

Yep, like gas prices. They will jump up immediately on a report of bad news, but trickle down slowly after the issue had long since been resolved. Price hikes are a straight pipe, decreases go through a labyrinth of delays.

Exactly.

talk to your government about that. Its the law they have to worry bout shareholders 1st. but this fails to mention that yes they made 2.5 billion in profit still have a debt of over $220 billion, in the early 2000s it was under $50 Billion. they are hurting.

Closer to it than actual American democracy in 2024...

The union is thuggary.

Oh please, the Union leaders will entrench themselves and it will be back to business as usual.

Just accuse them of anti freedom of association

​@@JB-yb4wnif they screwed up it's their problem, they should still be allowed to exercise the freedom of association. They did vote out the corporate friendly leaders at teamsters.

Get a 25 cent pay raise then hours cut, when hours are already low. Then hear how the CEO makes 10 mil per year plus bonus.

It's not the wealthy people who are driving this greed. It the Catholic Church Cartel. The Catholic Church is a Registered Limited Liability Tax Exempt Corporation. It is wealthier than the top 5 major corporations of the world. Just on record it owns 117 million acres of prime real estate and owns $10.7 Trillion Dollars of wealth. It is not required to file any financial records. Tax payers subsidize it's holdings. The Catholic Church is largest stakeholder in Blackrock, Vanguard, Statestreet and Fidelity. It owns more stock than any entity in the world and is the driver of the mass influx of the world's poverty through its greed. The Catholic Church is the world's largest political party, and the owner of the majority of the world's gold, land, jewels, art and precious artifacts. Jesus saves.

And that's why you'll always be poor.

@@jasonrod4523 and that’s why you will always confuse pieces of paper with true wealth. There isn’t enough money in the world to fill that hole in your soul.

@@jasonrod4523 Once the wealthy ruling class is dismantled, we'll still welcome you with open arms, Jason. The capitalist propaganda machine is extremely effective. It took me until I was in my early 30s before I realized I was a wage slave, busting my ass for nothing. We'll be here when you finally break those mental chains.

@@jasonrod4523what is wrong with your brain?

Pitch forks and torches usually solves this problem

look at their debt in the early 2000's it was under $50 billion now their debt is over $220 Billion. caused by regulations, Recalls, and stupid crazy lawsuits Jury's award these days. workman's comp insurance has gone up 5 times what it used to be. Car companies are in big trouble not just Toyota.

Your tie is too tight it’s cutting off oxygen to your brain@@timg2973

Thank Obama for your benefits being cut

Cashiers at chic fil a could make around $100k a year.

It reaches your 401k

​@@Pete.across.the.street it used to be a lifetime pension. But GM Ford and stellantis couldn't afford to pay it after 75 years. No more pension funds after 2008 crash

The less you pay the more you make

@@gregorylyon1004 I have a pension still. But it's a crapy union job.

Inb4 someone says that unions make people lazy or whatever

It was never really great but it was better for some white people during some periods in history, yes.

America has pretty much always sucked, unless you're in the top 0.1% of income earners.

you never had strong unions. you never had a time when the majority of the population wasnt starving to death and most importantly, there's never been a time when the power over our government and lives was not controlled by european loyalists aka people who are only here to extract wealth from american citizens to give to european monarchs and their goons. most of you cant even recon with the fact that europe is our owner. you see europeans living lavish easy lives, never working and always partying, while americans keep expanding the productivity of their work but keep seeing the quality of their lives exponentially dropping, but cant put two and two together to admit that europes been getting 100% of the value of americans work from the very start and in perpetuity. they have no profitable businesses. they dont do their own labor. they dont have valuable resources. and yet, they live the best lives of anyone on earth. they dont have any way to show where the money for all that comes from and how they can afford to just throw away so much on stuff thats not returning more than they're investing. but for whatever reason, possibly the extreme cognitive dissonance that infects every well off eurocentrics brain on the planet, they just cant bring themselves to admit to any of it, despite having to see it every day all day.

Strong unions, strong regulations on business, and civil rights victories.

Uh no

@@jonnyfendi2003 Why?

You quit your job then like I did because of poor man wages.

Companies went broke doing that crap all the time

People voted globalism 35 years ago and that globalism slashed their own pay and benefits. People have no one to blame but their own selves and they’ll keep electing globalist too because they don’t learn.

thats how it still is at the 40 year old company i work at. they take us to concerts and amusement parks

People voted for the globalism and the lowest wage a long time ago and that’s what they got.

Toyota builds junk today. I've seen several vehicles needing a transmission at less than 50K miles

So many of the world's problems would disappear if we weren't all subjugated by capitalism :)

Capitalism is pure evil trash.

Slaves harmed in ways/with whats marketed as wage? Thats not all the harm required. What other harm should be done to continue to make and keep human slaves or to end that (if thats physically possible)?

If you really think Auto workers are not paid fairly you are clueless and out of touch.

@@Gary_M Yeah, you have to account for cost of living too but something tells me you're just as bad at math as you are at reading/comprehension :)

Only so Ford could keep a bunch of his money by selling his workers one of *his* automobiles ...

You should check out Dodge Bros. v. Ford in the early 1900s. Henry was as greedy as any other robber baron and a big fan of fascism as well, but when he paid his workers more so that they could afford to buy the cars they built, his competitors sued him to force him to lower wages. Capitalism did fine as long as there was someone else from whom it could steal. Once they ran out of new world to expand into, they turned inward.

Look how far we’ve fallen

Have you seen how bad the economy is?

The model T was priced down to $290 dollars at the lowest cost. And workers were getting $5 a day working for Henry Ford

This is why we have states with bigger GDP's than your whole country! We are truly a capitalist society.

That's a crazy life story. Good on you for doing well even with the adversity you were faced with at a young age. So you just walked out of the house and just never saw your parent's again? I couldn't imagine a home life being that bad.

@@michaelb.8953 I didn't exactly just walk out. My Mother discovered that I'd signed up for the local Community College. When she checked with the Voices (Remember that she's a Diagnosed and Medication Non Compliant Schizophrenic) the Voices warned her that the Devil God Satan himself ran the College. She promised me that she'd see me starve to death in a Cold Dark Alley with an Aching Hungry Belly before I was going to Worship Satan. She told me to get the F**k out and not come back. Yep, it almost sounds like a made up story but it's not. I'm sure that you've seen pictures of someone half dressed on the sidewalk spinning in circles and yelling at their reflection in a Store Window. That is what SMI, Severe Mental Illness looks like. You do what you have to do to survive. I left home that night about 09:00pm and stayed with some friends while I was getting Enlisted in the Military during the Vietnam War Era. That was followed by Community College with a little help from the GI Bill. You do what you have to do to survive. My Mother had been dead for 20 years when I was talking to my Maternal Grandmother on the phone. She said that I should feel sorry for the family. She said that I had no idea how hard it was for them to lay awake at night when we were young. Knowing that in the morning the Sheriff was going to call them and tell them that my Mother had killed all of us. I asked how come she wasn't permanently committed and the children made a Ward of the Court. She said that would have brought too much Shame onto the family, so they just kept there fingers crossed and hoped for the best and it worked out OK. Nobody died. I was about 30 years old when I got a Postcard from my Old Man. It had a phone number and a note to Call Collect. He wanted to know if he could reconnect with me. Do Not Feel Sorry for me. It's been a Hell of a Ride. I have an Honorable Discharge from the Air Force and 2 College Degrees hanging in my home office. I'm a Comfortably Retired Debt Free Homeowner with a Comfortable 7 figure Financial Portfolio. Life is good at 70.

Grandpa you're so out of touch with reality of the current generations. Not even funny. You can do all of that. Right now and all that will happen to you is that you end up under a bridge If you Not inherit a home or get some support from your parents. Hint Kitchen work used to pay seven bucks when a house was 50k Now its paying nine bucks Price of everything is five times more.

Why would any trucking company want to force you to team drive ??? I ask because I have a Class A CDL myself

get off the road and find a local job i got off otr after 15 years of it

Henry Ford didn’t have to compete with Mexico or China.

How do you think they got there in the first place?

@@3_pancakes767 nepotism and 'legacy admissions'? 😉

Because that's literally how capitalism works. The best, most successful capitalists are the ones who maximize their profits by ANY means necessary.

​@@TheAmericanAmericanthis isn't actually capitalism anymore and it hasn't been for a very long time. capitalism actually requires money in the hands of people that buy things. that's what keeps the economy moving. when you take that away, and deregulate everything you no longer have capitalism.

@@intuitionz1198 funny then, how we experienced a VERY similar scenario over a hundred years ago during the Gilded Age... and then during the Great Depression... and then during the 2008 Recession... and now today... it's almost as if capitalism thrives of a Boom/Bust cycle or something, and that the only time things somewhat stabilize is when unions are strong 🤔

A lot of companies are going to go bankrupt in the distant future. No sales

One heinous act that international conglomerates love to pull is to lay people off during the Christmas Holiday season so the executives can pad their end of year bonuses with an accounting game of showing sudden increases in profits by slashing the payroll.

That's the grand economic scheme. Reaganomics. Rich get richer. Poor get poorer

Power is why corporations hate unions and welfare- because poor people can reject wage slavery.

​@@scifirealism5943100%

Reagan, the paid actor, made unions a fucking joke

@@scifirealism5943 Lolwhat? Poor people have even fewer choices in their lives than anyone :/

They put companies out of business with their inflated wages

I'm not surprised. Try to find another job if you can. You don't want to work for those pieces of trash.

I did fight back. I quit my job last summer. But in the few years I was there after the pandemic. I got the workers 3 dollars an hour in raises. Lol. We all put in 2 weeks notice. Lol. But I was the only one who actually quit

I'd imagine no matter where his soul lies now he'd be angrier than a poltergeist... Imagine that we've moved so far to the right of FORDISM that FASCISM is the preferred political outcome in America in 2024...

He was a Nazi, get better heroes

He wasn't a great man don't get it twisted. He didn't give a flying shit about his workers. None of these animals do. Let's not be naive. He was as greedy and selfish as all of the filthy trash that surrounded him, and I doubt he paid all that well even by the standards of his time. He didn't want his workers to unionize and just because he paid a slightly semi- living wage that doesn't mean jack shit. Learn the real facts. In some occasions he meddled in their private lives and they still had to work 6 days a week, 10 hours a day I believe. This government is set up to protect large business owners to the expense of everyone else and until something massive changes that's exactly what it will do.

@@stickynorth he wouldn't. Don't believe the hype. I don't know if my other comment is visible to you but he generally did not give an f about his workers. He was just slightly less bad than some of his contemporaries.

Henry Ford was a fascist.

Yep.

According to capitalist theory, profit comes before anything else. Unfortunately, greed is inherent in a capitalist system. Unionising is the only way to better our lives without changing the system.

Everyone is Greedy. The more you get the more you want. It's a human condition. Lol

@@gregorylyon1004 greed is a choice. Murder and rape are not illegal because people gain or lose money. Women's suffrage is more important than profits or unemployment.

@@gregorylyon1004 No, greed and avarice are a choice! One must realize that money is a tool and nothing more. To be morally superior, you do not take more than you need to survive. After all, when you die, the only thing you take with you is the Greed and Avarice that plagues you! The wealth stays on the mortal plane!

Sounds like you are new to Fed. Be careful, a lot of Federal agencies are violating bargaining agreement and illegally forcing early retirement or resignation. It's a good idea to get the latest bargaining agreement with your agency and read through the admittedly very long and boring contract to know your rights. Low level managers ofter don't read the contract so they might illegally order you to agree to actions barred by the contract

It all depends on your station. I've said it again and again. I go to all the union meetings and talk to my branch president on the regular. Our station's management right now is pretty decent. If they do something that violates contract, they will almost always flat out tell you, and then we go to our reps for grievances. I've heard horror stories from other stations or when our station had different management, and I'm very glad we have the people we do.

My union is holding my wages back because it is based on our collective. The people who are good at their jobs prop everyone else up and don't get compensated for it.

I worked union jobs in Canada. They were great. Good pay and benefits and job security.

@@karlabritfeld7104 is not like that in the US. No job security, they just laid noff half my office. The pay and benefits, when factored for the work you put in, are only great for those who don't do their job, nor know how to do it.

The fact that they are contractually obligated by the state of Kentucky, by subsidizing costs for certain production lines with taxpayer dollars, to keep these jobs in Kentucky as a stipulation for taking said money.

@@kevinspencer4031 Seattle felt the same way about Boeing, then Boeing opened up a factory in South Carolina, moved their headquarters to Illinois, etc.

You realize he was the one selling them those cars right? It's like putting money back into his own pocket by selling his workers cars lmfao. Y'all are so naive ...

@@3nertia an you're TOTALLY missing the point. did you even watch the video? did you even READ the title?

@@czarcoma Did you even make a point? Because I did and you've, so far, done nothing meaningful to refute it other than use fallacious attacks. Care to abuse any other logical fallacies while we're at it? :)

@@3nertia there was nothing to refute. making fords products affordable to more people, that even his workers can afford it. that was my point, regardless if he's profiting from it or not.

@@czarcoma No, it just meant more people lined his pockets but I can understand your confusion! Thinking is hard - that's why your capitalist masters are glad you don't do it - Ford would've been proud! :) You should read into the actual history of how Ford [mis]treated his workers though - you may be enlightened, or you may experience cognitive dissonance; either way it's sure to be amusing, for me ;)

Yes it must be a real struggle. Not to get you down but everything in this country is fucked. A lot of jobs, a lot of wages, social security, all of it. I don't want you to have a bad day but the truth is I would say, 60% of people in this country are getting fucked in one way or another right now. Government is not a positive force in this country government is a ruthless gangster that will throw us all in a pit for the big Banks and big corporate profit and they sure as hell won't help people get decent benefits if they're on public assistance. They already destroyed most welfare and what remains is pathetic and so minimal as to be useless. The government structure in this country only serves the top 1%, both parties are the same party behind the scenes, don't believe their lies. There's not a Democrat or Republican currently live that has any intention of trying to change this. Soap the rest of us are stuck in constant and poverty and/or insecurity. They won't bring down the cost of rent, they won't do anything. There are some housing assistance programs out there and Senior living which is usually lower cost than elsewhere, and perhaps something like that might help you, but you have to look in your area and try to find a resources may be available. I don't mean to end on a negative but unfortunately this is where a lot of us are at right now. I don't even think they give food stamps to those who are on social security. These people are very evil and very sick in the head. They seem to think that a person can survive perfectly fine paying for rent and food and anything else out of 700 or 900 or $1200 a month, which in most cases and most areas is impossible. And then of course if you're on disability there are low limits to how much you can have in the bank at any given time. So. Their agenda seems to be to kill us all through slow starvation or homelessness. I guess they feel for those who reach a certain age or those that are disabled don't have a right to live anymore. I guess that's their philosophy. And of course even for those that do work a huge number of people live under the poverty line because wages are so pathetic, and rent is going up; even some professionals don't make a secure salary anymore. Yep it's pretty sad times. I've never seen it even near this bad in all my life. Meanwhile we're a wash and plenty, the stores have much more than they need, but instead of donating it back to their community it all goes to waste. All that food all those useful household goods, right in the trash because there are no laws against it. We live in mad times and I don't know when it's going to get better.

My generation won't even see social security. And I'm 50 years old. I can't collect till age 67. It will be broke long before then. Pay in for life and never receive a dime. That's my generation

@@gregorylyon1004 it's possible things could change. All it takes is Congress to act. They have all the power because they control the purse. Sadly they don't give two fuxx about the 99%. They work for Wall Street and the 1%. Everybody should be able to get a basic living stipend if they're under a certain income. We can call it BSI, basic survival income.

@@gregorylyon1004 let me know if u can't see my reply

OP: I tried to reply to you but I don't know if it posted

The economically obese. The grotesquely greedy. Affluenza is a real thing. Inherent to extreme wealth is extreme isolation and moral and spiritual stagnation or retardation. There's a paranoia that foments their every moment, that everyone they meet is as heartlessly exploitative and soullessly dehumanizing as they are. They are left trapped in their wealth, completely isolated from real human connection, unable to find meaning when struggle is removed from existence. There is no hero's journey for them, no redemption arc outside of asceticism. And they know this. That's why rich people always make shitty art. They know they aren't worth their wealth, and they're too terrified to admit to themselves that we all already know that, because to them, they've been rewarded, their POV must be the correct one, thus they stop entertaining the thought that other people think any different than them, they are just smarter, faster, deserving because they got there first. Their world is a world of delusion with fear at its heart. Prolonged exposure to wealth is toxic to the spirit, it's no wonder everyone jokes about tech bros being so robotic, you could literally upload your consciousness and become the ghost on the machine and lose less of your humanity. Billionaires deserve our pity and contempt, they are beyond broken. They take so much, why should anyone GIVE them anything?

Working is a complete waste of time! Money does not have enough value anymore! No livable wages for over 45 years! Cost of living is suicidal and inflation completely out of control! 😶🏚😶Going off the grid and homesteading is the ONLY good option left! Working in capitalism is slavery 🏚🏚🏚FACT: US now in depression since 2019! From 1984 to 2019 we were constantly in a recession. 65+ million Americans in abject poverty and over 20 million illegal immigrants in abject poverty in USA. Capitalism is trash. Over 15 million Americans are in homelessness 🏗🏗🏗

Politicians need to pass pro union laws for that to happen

it has never paid to break your back for companines

@@Pete.across.the.street it does when they respect you as a person, most companies nowadays don’t. You put in as much effort as they put into you.

@@rennoc6478 not really, only way to get ahead is to job hop. Staying at the same job trying to move up, never works out.

they are in debt at the tone of a quarter Trillion dollars. they are failing all car companies are. you cant blame a party.

@@timg2973 lol yeah, I am going to ignore this verbal diarrhea

@@AndTecks thats right cuz you go off feelings and not facts. mental illness is serious get help.

I'd be willing to pay my monthly premium towards universal Healthcare instead of these greedy insurance companies

I hate this attitude. Americans ARE capable of handling crisis and shock, we JUST got thru a pandemic, an attempted coup and are currently dealing with being bent over by the aristocracic cartel that owns everything. for.fucks.sake. I have yet to meet a SINGLE person that can't be shown, in 19 seconds - and fully comprehend -that if I put a new tax here, but take this one away = saves you money and that's a good thing. Informing the population and giving up on the population are two very different things. Youre bringing up umbrage then deflecting redress, essentially saying we deserve it. Like, yo, everyone I know that's been in a union doesn't like dues either, but that's cuz they don't like any bills, not that they dislike the union. As it were, everyone having borne witness to obvious effects of capital strike by now, also can see the necessity of the union, cuz corporations are just bloodsuckers. Unless yr part of the ruling class, I'm frankly confused why you'd parrot their propaganda for them. I hope you're on payroll, fuck.

That’s because the government has continuously shown us that they mishandle tax dollars. The last thing people want is giving them more.

17 dollars is average today. It's sad. Retired people get more from social security handouts than we make working

@@gregorylyon1004 and that 17/hr average is only enough for us to rent one room within a shared home with roommates… Our “average” is barely enough for rent alone - and most places somehow want an income of 3x rent. We’re having to have roommates well into middle age and beyond. Gone are the days where the average wage is enough for even basic housing. The entire piece is about how people who were once considered well off and, to an extent, rich are having a hard time now… But to us? They have ALWAYS made significantly more than us. Like you said: they get more from the social security we are paying for as retirement handouts, than we make through honest hard work.

and we keep having to pay into social security for them to be able to continue receiving their handouts - even though there is no promise of it being there for us when we retire. Our Millennial generation is the first generation to have to pay into social security with no promise of receiving social security for our retirement. We’re required to be actively funding previous people’s retirement. In real time. All thanks to Reagan… The very fact we have to pay in to it without any shred of hope of ever receiving it for ourselves - it’s baffling more people aren’t upset about this.

Yep! Welcome to capitalism!

Wrong. It is corporatism, which is corporate socialism @@3nertia

@@matthewronson5218 Ah, the irony of Dunning-Kruger! ROFLMEYERWIENER! Try using a dictionary and some common sense or logic, if you're even capable ... cap·i·tal·ism /ˈkapədlˌizəm/ noun an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. For millennia the privileged and educated have subjugated the poor and uneducated and they'll use whichever [contemporary] buzzwords get the idiots to fall on their proverbial swords for their masters - much as you're doing now ;) We've had this same predatory system since before we even had the word "capitalism". We've tried to end it many times but the predators in charge won't allow that. That's why this list is so bloody long: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions

The underlying cause of workers not making enough money is capitalism, regardless of the industry. If a country is transit-oriented and still capitalist, then the transit workers will still be making as little as possible as profits are maximized for the capitalist class. You are barking up the wrong tree.

I would think that automakers could set up shuttle buses for their workers to get to their plants and save the workers a lot of money, they could go down to 1 car or even - horrors! - none at all. But then how do they get to the tattoo parlor, bar, liquor store, cigarette store, lottery tickets?

Holy crap.

Problem with CityNerd is he is a highly paid city planner living in a downtown location. he doesn't realize how bad public transit in most area of the US is

Well, part of the fringe benefit package Brazilian Auto Assembly ( and Rubber, auto parts ) blue and white collars workers got , mostly 1st and 2nd shift , was being bused from the plant to several drop offs near home ( usually a 10 min walk at most ). I lived , and came back to live , in a region that held the most assembly plants. Employment and pay rate is not nearly as it used to be. Be they still get busing. I did while working for an auto parts manufacturer. The only thing workers kicked in was a token amount at the plant cafeteria , for your daily lunch or dinner tray. They would get meal Stubbs And medical staff on premises ( usually a general practitioner and nurse ). Today, outside manufacturing , most salaried employees get meal and transport allowances through a stored value card.

Yep. And then his own workers got greedy years later and formed a Union. They want lifetime pensions for all the workers. Henry got screwed

What exactly does retirement restored mean ??? A 30 year and out defined benefit pension???? Or a 401K ??

@@gregorylyon1004 fully funded pension paid for solely by gm.

I was thinking about applying there, is it the battery plant?

@@gregorylyon1004 hmm I had replied full pension fully funded by gm. I don’t know where that comment went.

@@docholiday3800 ultimate cell is not under the Ryder banner. Ryder tried to bid on it but was out bidded. Pay should be in same pay range as Ryder but I don’t know what the benefit package of the company that runs it is.

Well. They don't deserve lifetime pensions. Because that cost gets added to every vehicle made and it never comes off the price because the corporate executives Pocket it for themselves. That's why a new truck is $90K dollars. Lifetime pensions paid to retired workers

That's pure evil.

Why do you think all these corporation are moving to the South, Toyota just opened a plant here in Alabama. Very anti union down here, not to mention the very lacks labor laws. If not mistaken starting line wage is only $15 at Toyota here, one time even starting out at a car manufacturing plant was an instant middle class wage job.

Boomers are the most domesticated generation in history. They slept walked us into endless wars, endless inflation and their eating everyone under 50 to fund this McMansion retirement.

capital is like cancer cells, just like how cancer cells reproduce uncontrollably until they kill the host, killing themselves in the process. capital is self destructive, only able to focus on short term gains, at the cost of long term stability. I believe marxists call it the "internal contradictions of capital accumulation"

Are they hard-working? Not at my Union job. If you are loyal, that's your own fault. Got to job hop until you get the wages you need

Are you writing this from 1965? It sounds like you should use the health benefits from your union job for a pyche eval. @@Pete.across.the.street

Do you mind if I ask what your yearly salary is? I guess the ownership class feels only they deserve to make a good living and everyone else deserves to starve.

life in eurocentric culture for anyone not born into a supportive well off family is little more than a death march. you literally, scientifically and mathematically cant do anything (legal) to make enough money to stay alive. they force most of the population to commit crimes to be able to barely be alive in this country. while europeans never do work yet never go without necessities. yet europe has zero profitable businesses and no one works, so idk where they get all the money to throw at stuff that has no return on investment like that.

Blame capitalism

Its more a gov interventionism just like communism

@@HIDHIFDB communism lifted 800 mil out of poverty while capitalism caused billions to die my dude

@@waspwrap1235 Sure buddy sure, Hey what if we switch nationalities you can live here in the paridisiatic Venezuela and i can live in that Horrible capitalist hell, what do you say?

They did give a raise. These people are blowing smoke up your ass. Lol

Thats what they want you to think, yes, lol "Big raises" given out voluntarily don't happen. That was more of a job ad than anything. Also, an attempt to get ahead of unionization desires from workers.

That's messed up

Look at the Legacy workers from the Big 3 automakers decades ago. $20 an hour in 1995 and a lifetime pension upon retirement. And the truck was 20 grand to buy one brand new. Those days are gone

To 30x, but yes, agreed.

@@AvangionQ sure, 30 x if you absolutely feel that's necessary, but it shouldn't be any more than that, let alone THREE HUNDRED TIMES MORE.

10x and you have a deal what do they deserve so much for they barely raise a pen and pad.

You slow?

@@waykool698He’s a midwit.

Go for it Toyota. Form a Union and send your jobs to Mexico when the plant closes. Pablo the Mexican will definitely thank you for sending him a decent job so he can feed his 10 kids. Lol

You'd be united in prison, or a graveyard.