McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
#capitalism is #poverty
A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
#quote #quotes #quotation #capitalism #commercialism #materialism #nationalinterest #success #wealth
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/17791/
#politics #socialism #communism #imperialism #capitalism
https://piped.video/watch?v=sd5Ko_mGGiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd5Ko_mGGiA
The grand experiment that began in 1776 will come to an end, as all once-great nations do. The US will continue to exist, but as a shadow of its former self, in the manner of the failed empires before it.
https://internationalman.com/articles/national-fire-sale/
#USA #US #american #warmongers #debt #economy #Western #management #capitalism #fail #collapse #crisis #poverty #history
Fools are always punished by history because they don't learn it.
![the Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity" the royal Swedish academy of sciences](https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/113/312/373/891/951/803/original/025d48890eac6bc7.png "the Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity" the royal Swedish academy of sciences")
Economists whose ideas have been widely debunked in recent times still receive a Nobel Prize, proving once more how the prize, especially for economics, was never anything more than a recognition of the most deserving propagandists for capitalism.
#Western #capitalism #economy #fail
The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-robots-human-controlled-cybercab-we-robot-event
#Western #capitalism #fraud as a way of life.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952124002532
• Denuvo #DRM protects total revenue from piracy by a mean of 15% and a median of 20%.
• #Piracy causes mean total revenue to decrease by 20% when Denuvo is cracked quickly.
• Piracy causes zero mean total revenue loss when Denuvo survives for 12 weeks or more.
• The characteristics of a #game cannot explain its likelihood of being cracked.
First of all DRM is not digital rights management, it is digital restrictions management for the #gamer. Often DRM is making performance and installing problems.
It's important to know that DRM must be payed but makes a game #experience worse. DRM costs #money, #energy, #performance, patches and #support but without any positive effect for the consumer.
The question now is: are these costs higher or lower 20% of lost consumer licenses?
#capitalism #profit #entertainment #news #copy #economy #Problem #study #finance #copyright
#politics #economics #environment #capitalism
Fisher used the apple tree as an example. The orchard that produces apples (i.e. will generate apples in the future) represents capital. But it is the value of the apples, not the tree or land the orchard rests on, that produces capitalism’s real value.
As value depends only on future capital gains, not the present nor the past, the value of the land can be discounted. If apples can’t be profitably sold in the future, then the orchard becomes redundant. Its ancient trees should be ripped up and the land turned over to a ‘productive’ crop more likely to ensure capital gains in the future.
That formula explains so much about capitalism’s destruction of nature.
https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/capitalisms-attack-on-time-and-nature
Source: https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?id=1727255253
Do you remember the dystopia of #Bladerunner? You were bombarded by neon #advertising everywhere in a gloomy city. Apparently, this is exactly what the #digital #economy dreams of. Consumers who can no longer save themselves from advertising. Who voluntarily buys such devices?
#tv #business #ad #entertainment #consum #buy #Problem #news #Hardware #future #capitalism
It’s a social emergency. More than 30 million people in Europe are living in severe social and material deprivation – according to the latest European statistics.
That’s 30 million women, men and children who cannot afford a roof over their heads or a proper meal every second day, who rely on every single cent in their wallets and don’t know what tomorrow will bring.
If society has failed them, we won’t. The fight against poverty is and always will be at the heart of our political battle.
As the second largest group in the European Parliament, we are putting maximum pressure on the new European Commission and member states to roll out a broad anti-poverty strategy, as well as a specific plan to invest massively in affordable housing.
Pulling millions of people out of poverty is not a wishful objective: it can be achieved if European leaders and governments make it a top priority.
#Europe #Poverty #Economy #Politics #homelessness #Capitalism
Before a large crowd Saturday, Musk sought to portray Trump as a champion of free speech, arguing that Democrats want “to take away your #freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right to vote, effectively.” Musk went on to criticize a California effort to ban voter ID requirements.
#usa #news #fake #conspiracy #vote #president #politics #freespeech #maga #democracy #economy #capitalism
“Symbol image with different viewing options"
Is he up to his neck in water, or is he keeping his head above water despite everything? what do you think ?
the rules of the game are simple - choose a photo (preferably your own), edit with gimp and tag #sundaygimp on a Sunday ;-) … and follow the tag.
(and also #Sunday-photo-edit )
Note: if you do not use gimp, but still want to play along, just use the tag #Sunday-photo-edit and edit the images with your favorite image editor
#AB, #AB24, #AB-10-24, #AB-SG, #AB-06-10-24, #gimp, #gmic, #Sundaygimp, #Karl_Marx, #philosophy, #Philosophie, #Symbolbild, #Image-symbole, #symbol_image, #Kapitalismus, #Capitalism, #Capitalisme, #Kunst, #Bildbearbeitung, #Bildmanipulation, #manipulation-de-photos, #image-editing, #retouche-d-image, #photo, #Foto, #myphoto, #mywork (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
It's unbelievable that TikTok has suddenly become far worse than both ShiTwitter, FaceBook and Instagram.
I am about to file a complain with European consumer rights to challenge the legality of such actions. They should not be allowed to prevent people to block account they find repulsive and sickening like these freaking genocide apologizing monsters.
It seems like TikTok censorship is mostly because of Saudi investment and push rather than Israeli one.
Now that even fediverse is limiting and blocking accounts posting the truth about Israeli war crimes, do we have any way to reach the public, other than small private circle of followers?
We have reached a new level of corporate censorship and populist complicity in covering up and hiding the heneous crimes of netanyahu's regime in Gaza, occupied west ban, #Syria, #Lebanon, #Yemen and #Iraq.
#TikTok #Censorship #Saudi #Israel #Gaza #Media #Socialmedia #Fediverse #Politics #Genocide #capitalism
#meme #titanic #future #crisis
♲ anonymiss - 2024-10-05 03:03:28 GMT
Symbolic image for the current state of our #civilization.
#meme #future #humanity #crisis #politics #society #capitalism #war #terror #finance #economy #climate #environment #nature #earth #biodiversity #memes #titanic
#meme #future #humanity #crisis #politics #society #capitalism #war #terror #finance #economy #climate #environment #nature #earth #biodiversity #memes #titanic
Brummet contrasts the US government’s response to the hurricane relief efforts in places like Cuba, in particular, which although is often in the direct path of hurricanes, it historically has had very few hurricane related deaths.
The day before Hurricane Ian hit Cuba in 2022, 50,000 people were evacuated and taken to 55 shelters. By October 1, less than five days after Hurricane Ian’s landfall, 82% of the residents of Havana had their power restored. In contrast, over 100 people died in Florida as a result of the same hurricane, with many blaming delayed evacuation efforts.
Cuba has “drastically lower rates of deaths from hurricanes than we do here in Florida,” says Brummet. “And then when the storm has passed, it’s a priority for the government that everyone’s home is given attention, is repaired.”
In the US, “this is not even imaginable,” Brummet claims. “People are often permanently displaced because their homes are destroyed and they aren’t given the resources to repair them. With all the wealth that we have in the United States, we could prioritize making sure that our communities are safe from storms, that people are evacuated, and that where a storm does hit, that people’s needs are met and they can have their homes rebuilt and their lives can continue.”
#compare #hurricanes #USA #capitalism #Cuba #socialism #government #humanism
#US congress failed to allocate relief funding ahead of Hurricane Helene, then skipped town early due to the storm.
