You’d be one of the first people sent to the Gulag, comrade.
No
One
Fucking
Cares.
There are billionaire rappers. The Kardashians are billionaires. A former WWE wrestler is on the cusp of being a billionaire. Deadpool just sold Avion for $600m.
No. One. FUCKING cares except the most useless members of society.
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That’s because they cannot fathom a world in which someone may have more valuable skills than they do.
The laziest people I have ever seen are all in unions (or internet morons). Easy jobs that should take two hours take up to two days because there is no incentive to solve the problem. And they stop at break time even if they are in the middle of removing a bolt.
My favorite is when they think I couldn’t do the job because “engineers can’t read micrometers or work torque wrenches” (yes this was actually said to me).
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Wow capitalist goons who worship fame and money. Who fucking cares?
No, you’d be right in front of me after being busted for cheating your employer from the work expected of you.
Are corporations being responsible when they ask for bailouts?
When you can’t answer, call names. Good for you.
Works with private industry and the last thing private industry wants is a successful government. This would negate most of what they say. Can’t have people know there is another way. You might upset the apple cart of the very wealthy. Who incidentally owns most of the government. Any wonder why they bribe the politicians all the time?
And then give it to defense contractors. What a responsible bunch.
Another one who thinks the federal government needs to earn money to spend it. If not, explain if you can, the economic system you believe to be the truth.
You must mean like all those corporate subsidies given to already successful corporations. They need to be coddled.
And YOU are an absolute simpleton.
You mean purchase more stock buy backs.
As if the people on this forum’s opinion means that much.
He obviously DOESN’T think that: he called it “monopoly money” for a reason, zep. In fact, NO ONE thinks that.
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That’s not what this was about but since you went there:
No, bailouts are stupid. If your business failed, it failed. Close the doors and move on. You sucked at the game and didn’t make it. Corporate bailouts shouldn’t exist.
No dumbass, I mean what I said. Tax breaks for a company to move into a state are a business equation contract.
For example
Company A: “our analysis shows that if we put a new widget producing facility in your state it will bring in x jobs and y revenue to the state economy over ten years. If you can give us a tax break of $z < $y over that period we can start construction on that new facility soon”
State A: “we agree this will bring us more money in the long term and see that you need a little incentive to build here. This will work for both parties. Let’s write a contract detailing that”.
It’s a business transaction that benefits both parties. But since you don’t understand math or business you just see it as corporations getting “free” money. What’s that matter if all money is funny money anyway? Money then is just a social construct.
Your brain is so smooth we could play shuffleboard on it.
More substantive than your views on many topics.
Maybe not, but they certainly act like it. And further more they never announce what kind of economic system they believe in short of posting a video of Uncle Milton. A failed economist. So am I to assume he is a monetarist in his economic philosophy?
I’m a salaried employee, dumb dumb. Oh sorry, you don’t know what that means because you’ve never had an actual job.
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You think voluntary work is akin to slavery. You are a fucking idiot.
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Imagine writing these two sentences in the same paragraph and calling other people dumb.
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What in the actual fuck does corporate subsidies (something I am generally against) have to do with whether voluntary work is similar to slavery?
Typical Zep, this response has zero to do with what was being discussed, but the four neurons bouncing around your rotting brain thought it made for a killer response.
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Don’t think I didn’t notice you ignored an hour+ video from an economic expert:
Hypocrite.
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So why do they?
I would assume corporate profits are used to begin this new facility? But if stock buybacks are an easier way to make money-artificially buoy their price and pump up the shareholder dividend and CEO compensation package- then that is what will be pursued. Not investment in a new production facility.
From early 2022:
New repurchase announcements by U.S. companies reached over $300 billion in the first quarter, with March showing a strong year over year increase, suggesting buybacks have remained resilient in recent weeks, according to financial data firm EPFR, Informa Financial Intelligence. If that is extrapolated, that is over well over 1 trillion in stock buybacks in last year.