A repository for the various stupid things I do on the Internet.
…However uncertain their status, they do count in government statistics as wage-earning workers.”
“Caution in hiring is certainly the watchword at Eggrock, which makes prefabricated bathrooms in Littleton, Mass.”
Allowing for easier exploitation of those who remain unemployed by offering underpaid, uninsured temp jobs
Hiring temp workers is all about “caution,” a temporary set of circumstances wholly unrelated to the crisis creating a reserve army of labor
Good luck to the idealist realists who want to see serious climate change and healthcare reform implemented under capitalism.
All we get are symbolic gestures, but when it comes to bailing out the system during crisis, suddenly trillions of dollars are available.
http://bit.ly/4AWs7Y This NYTimes piece is incredibly idiotic: of course the # of uninsured isn’t going to change—COVERAGE IS MANDATED.
What will change is the price of insurance if the public-option is removed, which would’ve forced private insurers to lower prices! Absurd.
RT @heraclitus: If Marx is an object orientated ontology guy, then I will gladly eat my hat. In fact, two hats.
RT @voyou: What we really need is a mass public manifestation of uninterest; a militant boredom.
I like how certain commodities such as shampoo have labels in English and French, despite being produced in the US. Nice marketing gimmick.
