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Hospital staff get baked potato as a 'Christmas bonus' from work (and got taxed on it)
(www.indy100.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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Capitalism is starting to feel like a massive piss-take. You've got corps laughing all the way to the bank with billions in profits feeding their employees with fucking potatoes.
Surely something has to give?
Tbh I am kind of surprised no one has literally eaten some of the rich by now for nourishment.
I expect nothing will happen right through the crops failing, famines, mass migrations, wet bulb heat waves, ecological collapse... Nothing good anyway... Most likely fascist police state; probably sooner than later.
It'll happen gradually enough that people won't connect the dots.
The divide will keep growing until people start to get hungry.
We've already proven time and time again that the worst they're going to get out of us for anything they do is harsh words and disapproval. And since they know the worst we can do is complain they're going to keep doing it.
There won't be any legislation or policy charges to help us.
When we can't eat and can't feed our children we'll finally have to motivation to make the changes ourselves.
Yup, they know the population is placated by social media, but their mistake is thinking that makes them immune from the guillotine.
It does though, as long as we have our bread and circuses they're safe, and nothing will change until one or both dry up.
the bread is already drying up in america, people have died because they couldn't get heating in texas winter
It has multiple times, housing bubble, dot com bubble, soon the used car bubble, then it'll be another housing bubble with apartments etc... Capitalism has such a stranglehold on the world that it's going to take a very long time for it to change enough to be called something else that actually works
Starting?
same people who are just starting to see how democracy works too
Paying their employees with fucking potatos.
We could always embrace capitalism by getting rid of corporations, like as a concept. They're a fundamentally anti-capitalist idea.
More than likely the hospital is a non profit, so the profits at all costs doesn't really work.
"Non-profit" doesn't mean it doesn't make money and doesn't prevent hospital administration from taking massive pay bumps.