Can we finally agree capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about anything but profits and therefore CANNOT self regulate?
Jon Stewart had an excellent monologue about the myth of corporate morality yesterday.
I love how they gave Jon Stewart his show back and he’s been using it to burn every single thing he can, including them.
Wait, he’s back on the Daily Show?
Yes, but only Mondays. He’s been hitting it out of the park though.
Capitalism does not return the shopping cart.
That’s beautiful
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I just kinda put together recent adages that make sense together. Sometimes I feel like I think the way most people expect AI does.
I’m the guy who came up with the phrase “if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.”
I might have a thing for putting 2 and 2 together to get 5.
Simplicity is powerful. I’ve mumbled a few things that turned out to be far more meaningful than I intended.
Not you, though. A Lazer of human consciousness, that’s you!
it’s not like people would just lie on the internet, is it?
(Mango has an unpleasant history)
Heard, but my experience was positive.
Appreciate you looking out.
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I’m pretty super flattered right now!
I mostly expect people to just not believe me when I claim I coined a viral phrase. I actually keep links to the source and stuff. Credit or none, I’m happy about it every time I see someone say it! I imagine it’s how people feel who make open source software and this mentality is what defeats the capitalist notion that nobody would contribute for free.
Dad once told me that money can’t buy happiness, but poverty can buy misery. Whatever that’s worth.
Good job, yo. And thanks. We need to share our fresh, creative ideas.
If we weren’t so fixed on concentrating wealth and hoarding tools and IP, we could pretty well eliminate poverty. More can be made when everyone can access tools to be productive. There’s just always the issue of how people won’t CARE to nicely maintain things they aren’t claiming ownership of. High economy of scale tools like flexographic presses need to be carefully maintained and it’s best done with personal interest at stake it seems.
isn’t that the point? The corruption has tricked us to believing they can regulate themselves or are even not amoral about social issues. Companies make profit – that is their singular goal. The laws and regulations control their behavior, not ‘good will’ or whatever we pretend motivates individuals
It’s the definition of capitalism
It’s money. Every other form of economy has also exploited people for gain.
Money existed before capitalism. Capitalism started in the 1700s. Money far predates capitalism. Plus, my comment is that capitalism must be regulated by outside regulators like governments. Conservatives have pushed deregulation forever and it’s made things worse. Capitalism worked far better in the heavy regulation days after WW2.
Money existed before capitalism. Capitalism started in the 1700s. Money far predates capitalism.
Yes, thank you explaining what I said. Mucho appreciato
So we’re just supposed to stop coming up with better ideas?
If that’s what you want to do, go for it. I didn’t say anything like that.
I’m just pointing out it’s not capitalism.
The fine? $38 million.
Chiquita Brands International’s profits in 2023? $3.1 billion.
That’s a slap on the wrist if anything. Just the cost of doing business I guess.
To put that into context:
if all you had was a $100 USD Note, the equivalent of that “slap on the wrist” fine would be $1.23
I’ll do the math when I get home, but that serms high. Gut instinct I thought it would be more like $0.10.
(38 mill/3.1bil)*100=1.2258 roughly
Again?
Implying they ever stopped.
You can’t think all of those private military contractors get all of their money from Uncle Sam.
Corporations have been using mercenaries for hundreds of years, they’ve just refined their PR departments lately.
We live in a sad world when this kind of thing keeps happening.
…you new here? And be “here” I mean Earth.
Again?
At this point it’s not a surprise, it’s when asked to name paramilitary financers, first name that comes up is chiquita.
PEOPLE DIED
PEOPLE NEED TO BE JAILED OVER THIS
Lol. You and I both know that’s not gonna happen.
Damn that’s crazy. I’ve never heard of bananas being associated with violence… anytime in the last 120-140 years…
It’s where the term “banana republic” comes from.
Okay I’ll come clean; I literally chose the range “120-140 years” by looking up the year that term was coined (1904) 😂
And then we made it cute by putting it on clothing. What a twist.
It’s actually a super cute brand name if you just disregard everything about it
That’s bananas
What year is this?!?
Isn’t Chiquita the corporate heir to United Fruit?
yes
Again?
Exactly my response!!
Guess they don’t have friends in the CIA or state department like they used to.
Is this an article from 70 years ago?
For Colombians who suffered at the hand of the guerrilla-paramilitary conflict, it was not 70 years ago.
The paramilitary group mentioned in the article, AUC, disbanded around 2006-2008.
Thank you for pointing that out.
As someone who hates both bananas and corporations financing death squads, I consider this a win.
You leave the bananas out of this! They’re a victim!
They’re disgusting radioactive fruit that everyone insists on putting in smoothies.
They’re delicious fruit packed with potassium that help make smoothies creamier.
I do not dispute any of that but the ‘delicious’ part.
Then I respect your opinion, no matter how wrong it may be.
Again?!
Who’s going to post that 2 nickels meme?
War is a racket.
Over bananas boys. Bananas.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Florida jury on Monday found banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the Colombian paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).
The jury in the civil case, in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, found that “Chiquita knowingly provided substantial assistance to the AUC to a degree sufficient to create a foreseeable risk of harm to others.”
Chiquita, one of the world’s largest banana producers, has been ordered to pay a total of $38.3 million to the families of eight victims of the AUC, which was a far-right paramilitary group that was designated a terrorist organization by the US.
In 2007, Chiquita pleaded guilty to making over 100 payments to the AUC totaling over $1.7 million despite the group being designated a terrorist organization.
An unnamed company executive had told the Justice Department that the payments had been made under the threat of violence, according to the release.
In a social media post, Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, reacted to the American jury’s Tuesday decision and asked why the same ruling was not made in his home country.
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