Is income inequality unjust, and if so, where is the injustice?

[figmentPez]

Inside Kroger-Albertsons would-be merger: ‘Do we have to say that we won’t close stores?’

According to internal company documents, Kroger “has recognized that areas with diminished competition are areas where it can pursue a ‘different price strategy’ and raise prices,” another passage contends.

The same holds for Albertsons, which “also recognizes that when its stores face less competition, it can take the opportunity to raise prices and ‘margin up’,” reads a related passage.

Furthermore, the suit filed by the FTC contents that without competition from Albertsons, Kroger “would have an increased incentive to close stores to reduce union participation.”

According to an unredacted passage, “a 2021 labor strategy document prepared for Kroger recommends that Kroger pursue, over the long-term, a strategy to ‘reduc[e] the percentage of Kroger associates represented by organized labor.’”

“That strategy includes ‘deter[ing] union campaigns,’ ‘opening more nonunion operations,’ and ‘shutting … union represented locations,’” according to an unredacted passage.

TL;DR Kroger and Albertsons want to merge so that they can raise prices and union-bust, and say exactly that in company documents. While lying to the public and saying the exact opposite.

 

[MindDetective]

And how many of those execs bang the free market drum whenever they can? Antitrust needs more teeth.

 

[Krisken]

And it all goes back to Citizens United.

 

[MindDetective]

And it all goes back to Citizens United.

I'm not a fan of that either, but monopoly busting slacked off well before then. Blame Reagan.

 

[Krisken]

I'm not a fan of that either, but monopoly busting slacked off well before then. Blame Reagan.

Oh, I promise I do that too.

 

[PatrThom]

The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments

The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. (This article is also available as a YouTube video and as a podcast episode) As a well-known quote often

www.scottsantens.com

Florida man: "Hey, Texas? If I give you some money, will you promise to stop handing out free, unrestricted money to your citizens? Can you do that for me? Also can you tell your friends over in WI, IA, SD, WV, AS, AZ, etc. the same thing? KTHX."

--Patrick

 

[Frank]

Kinda. John Kellogg started making cereal for health and abstinence and then him and his brother had a falling out and his brother made his own company, which is the one that exists today. The latter company was founded to just be a normal food company.

I remember listening to a podcast about him and how the original corn flakes were basically inedibly hard and completely unpalatable.

The brother had to make them not taste like complete shit to actually sell them to human beings, ha ha ha.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

this thread title still makes me laugh

 

[Frank]

 

[PatrThom]

I need that cricket guy for this reaction.

--Patrick

 

[figmentPez]

“If you’re making $20 an hour to work at a fast food restaurant, right? Is that six figures? Are you making six figures?".... “Okay, so 40k a year. And then if your husband or wife is also there, you’re making $100,000 as a family. Both working at McDonalds? That is—okay, that’s crazy. That is crazy, because that job doesn’t require much. So it’s inflating the entire, you know, labor sector and the Happy Meal, which I’m very unhappy about.”

Fox News host thinks that fast food workers make $100K a year

The deliberate misinformation is infuriating.

 

[@Li3n]

What, 4+4 = 10, everyone knows that.

 

[Frank]

Full time hours at a fast food joint. lol.

That's not how you get away without paying any kind of benefits.

 

[Dubyamn]

“If you’re making $20 an hour to work at a fast food restaurant, right? Is that six figures? Are you making six figures?".... “Okay, so 40k a year. And then if your husband or wife is also there, you’re making $100,000 as a family. Both working at McDonalds? That is—okay, that’s crazy. That is crazy, because that job doesn’t require much. So it’s inflating the entire, you know, labor sector and the Happy Meal, which I’m very unhappy about.”

Fox News host thinks that fast food workers make $100K a year

The deliberate misinformation is infuriating.

I love how he thinks that working full time in fast food doesn’t require much. Like talking bullshit on TV is so physically and mentally demanding.

 

[Tress]

I love how he thinks that working full time in fast food doesn’t require much. Like talking bullshit on TV is so physically and mentally demanding.

Look at Jesse Watters smug face. If that man has ever done a full days worth of honest work in his life, I would die of shock. He has no fucking clue.

 

[Far]

Any of the hardest jobs I've ever worked have been the least-paying. I do less work in my current job than probably every other one I've ever had, maybe even combined, and I make nearly 4 times as much as I did at the highest paying one prior.