• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    That’s the classic “If I owe you $5 it’s my problem. If I owe you $5B it’s your problem.”

  • @_number8_
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    if a worker is on their phone during a shift for 5 minutes it’s time theft and unfair to the corporation because that’s 60c of productivity lost. if a corporation systematically extracts maximum profit from a worker while paying them as little as possible, that’s fine cause they took a risk or something

      • @hypnotoad__
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        501 year ago

        No one forced you to make this dumbass comment either

      • @[email protected]
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        161 year ago

        Unfortunately for the most part, capitalism is. The companies that do exploit their workers and their customers make more money, Corporations that make more money than their competition then get in positions to do shady shit to kill their competitors. In the end of course there’s plenty of shitty jobs that treat their employees like garbage to jump between, and very few jobs that actually treat their workers like humans.

  • Poggervania
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    Banks in 2008: “Hey customers, be ready for some real shit with the housing market - we can’t help you guys out.”

    Also banks in 2008: “hi government, can we pls have all the money so we don’t pay for our fuckups?”

    • @[email protected]
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      Except the banks payed it back. The US government profited about $15bn from the bailouts. Potentially a loss if considering inflation. Also banks were forced to take the bailouts to prevent a bank run. You would almost certainly have taken your money out of CITI bank if they were the only ones receiving a bailout from the government. Which would have cost the government more in the long term.

      Large banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs had already paid back the government bailout by July 2009.

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        261 year ago

        We are considering inflation. Then add on risk adjustment, and we can see it for the corporate charity it is. If it was a good investment, then we wouldn’t have been forced to make it. Yes there was enough private capital to cover these loans.

        Them being “forced” to take loans is irrelevant because they’re the ones buying policy, not us. One interest rate for them, another higher interest rate for them to charge you.

        We are being robbed blind.

      • @0Empty0
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        Are we just going to ignore all the jobs that were lost when the economy crashed? Not just in the U.S. either.

        All because there was an inordinate amount of really bad housing loans that banks KNEW were bad, and just continued to give the loans out.

        If you’d like to learn more about this, Inside Job is a great documentary about this.

      • @BB69
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        -141 year ago

        Why are you introducing facts into a conversation?

  • @Touching_Grass
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    171 year ago

    I was thinking it was weird there was so many bank themed posts then realized its the same persom

      • @Touching_Grass
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        31 year ago

        I’m so paranoid that I was scrolling and saw bank post, then another and another and immediately I was thinking there’s some bullshit in the news I missed which some group was trying to steer conversation towards. Like how wallstreetsilver kept trying to manufacture a bank run. But no, it was Zoe 😆

        I need to chill out.

  • @Jubi
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    101 year ago

    Good lord this hits hard. US culture is upside down

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Banks Suck. Toronto Dominion Bank screwed me over a few ways… one was a line of credit with low interest rate, until I used it and they jacked rate up from 3% to 11%. Another I had a payment coming out that night, so I deposited money directly in the morning online. The recirds showed cash in, then latter.cash out with + balance. Next day they swapped the entry order and charged an NSF fee for when withdrawl came out first and left negative balance. I went right there and complained, they did not seem surprised and refunded me. But i closed every account, credit card, insurance, and RRSP I had with them. Now with a credit Union and it has been awesome.

  • @gcheliotis
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    51 year ago

    One is a savings bank, the other an investment bank. The problem is these aren’t separate anymore.

  • @clearedtoland
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    41 year ago

    That’s the power of influence. Come to think of it, wasn’t there a book making yourself indispensable? Lynchpin, I think.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      21 year ago

      Whenever I make myself indispensable, I’m dispensed with anyway and then the project just fails.

  • @sixapples
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    31 year ago

    Also banning accounts for ‘hate speech’ and then assigning personal reps to Epstein for child rape payment processing