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It's about time the US had some 'union tyranny'
dreamdancer replied to dreamdancer's topic in Speakers Corner
unions are cool... http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-its-about-time-the-us-had-some-union-tyranny-1645372.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding -
[replyWhen you are talking about people, keep in mind you are also talking about Timothy McVeigh and David Berkowitz. You are talking about the 170,000 murderers and 600,000 rapists in the US. These are the people you are saying are superior to corporations. what a strange confluence of thinking. corporations are superior to murderers and rapists stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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is a corporation more or less moral than a union? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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we're talking about 'most people' here - and most people have their highest goal as surviving and having children (and want their children to survive - which is best done within a community with a basic moral framework). stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporations/KnowEnemy_ITT.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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nope, their highest goal is to survive and have children. the highest goal of a corporation is to make money. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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exactly... http://siivola.org/monte/papers_grouped/uncopyrighted/Misc/corporate_psychopathy.htm stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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what smith thought of corporations... http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/24/adam-smith-corporations-markets-marketsp07-cx_mh_1025hodak.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/death-penalty-new-mexico-ban stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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i think you're stretching your definitions... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_conservancy stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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being able to outgun the locals also helped - along with a good helping of slavery and something called the industrial revolution. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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no, not like people - that would immoral (the vast majority can tell simple right from wrong - unlike a corporation). stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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that's going to happen anyway. everything is going to have a rfid tag (several) and be part of an automated 'just in time' delivery system. minimum wage has little to do with it (other than the money wal-mart is saving with its taxpayer subsidies will be used to buy the machines that will replace the workers - neat; more profit for the corporation). stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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the corporation seems a very strange entity to give human rights to . what are its main characteristics? it is amoral. its owners, the shareholders, though able to claim all the surplus 'profit', have limited liability - meaning they can't be bankrupted (a nice perk if you can get it). i see corporations as primitive digitising machines. a corporation is designed to take any set of resources available to it and convert them to a single number - otherwise known as the 'profit'. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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you've already said that all its stock is currently chinese - so how would the situation change? can you envision the waltons ever selling up to china? i also can't see landscapers moving their business to china
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see ya! play safe
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Dude I'm gonna blow a 10inch hole in your above statement. I guarantee you that the majority of uninsured americans make above minimum wage. Have that. i agree, but not much above - and a fair/living minimum wage would bring the majority of those uninsured to a position where they could afford healthcare. now take this! http://www.ufcw.org/press_room/fact_sheets_and_backgrounder/walmart/benefits.cfm stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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one would assume that they use rather a lot of government benefits. there's probably a model somewhere which works out for every extra dollar paid out in the minimum wage how much the government would benefit. i would estimate around 30% (which means every extra dollar paid by minimum wage employers results in a 30 cent decrease in government benefits paid out). if the minimum wage were a 'living wage' then presumably hardly any government benefit would need to be paid out to subsidise employers - in fact they might generate a tax surplus
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no, a countries people make up its economy. corporations are just legal shells within which people trade with each other. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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this hasn't answered my point. wal-mart won't relocate offshore (how will it sell anything to its customers? - the same for pizza/fast food outlets). where they source their products is another matter. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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there won't be any healthcare as any mcworkers/landscapers who get sick can be easily replaced. why would a master pay any more for labourers than the barest minimum to sustain life? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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that means they can pay for the bailout and stimulus
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Regulate armed robots before it's too late
dreamdancer replied to dreamdancer's topic in Speakers Corner
and if the robots don't get us - the viruses will... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126994.600-cyber-attacks-are-a-clear-and-present-danger.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding -
use this link: http://usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-american-religion-ARIS_N.htm stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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Anti Gun Forces Have More "Ammunition"
dreamdancer replied to Andy_Copland's topic in Speakers Corner
perhaps this... http://www.alternet.org/workplace/131201/workplace_massacre_in_alabama%3A_did_endless_downsizing_and_slashed_benefits_cause_the_rampage/?page=entire stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding