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Uber should not exist

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/08/2022 - 7:11pm

In 2020 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi floated the possibility of temporarily suspending services in California if Uber was forced to make its drivers eligible for minimum wage, union membership, and health care benefits. The company spent $190 million to get a ballot measure passed that allowed it to continue exploiting its workers, and it is spending millions more in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and other states that have considered this labor reform.

I don’t think it would be much different from what we have now

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 01/07/2022 - 8:58pm

But don’t forget the military/defense guys.

Why Don't We Cut Out The Middleman And Just Elect Pfizer & Merck?

If we no longer have the capacity to distinguish between moral legitimacy and self-serving corruption, then we might as well eliminate the Middleman and vote directly for Pfizer or Merck.

Rome, Open City (film)

Submitted by zed2 on Fri, 01/07/2022 - 5:43pm

What is totalitarianism like?

In the closing months of World War II...

Resistance leader Luigi Ferrari is pursued by Major Fritz Bergmann, a German intelligence officer who wants the name of others in the underground movement. Ferrari enlists the help of sympathetic priest Don Pietro Pellegrini to pass on funds to the fighters in case he is captured, but is accidentally betrayed by a former lover.

In Italian with English subtitles.

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