Don't encourage him. The states aren't going to secede, the U.S. isn't going to be a failed state, etc. QQ eats this stuff up though and he needs something to put on his white board.
Don't mind Seattle he thinks it's somehow funny to be a citizen of a nation that is the world leader in "How to maintain individual freedom during a pandemic" and demonstrate what happens when you do...
Agree, but I posted a few times that I’m not against capitalism. I make a good living and capitalism is partly why, rather late stage capitalism is more of my concern. When greed takes over a corporation and investors matter more than customers and employees, is an example of it.
Gross.
OK, thanks, I've looked up this term and see what you mean, I think:
Lol Nah, I think you’ve got it right.OK, thanks, I've looked up this term and see what you mean, I think:
"In modern usage, late capitalism often refers to a new mix of high-tech advances, the concentration of (speculative) financial capital, Post-Fordism, and a growing gap between rich and poor."
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
Perhaps this rather elastic concept ties in with what I was saying about US society placing more faith in markets to produce good outcomes than seems justified by the results on health, job security and social provision.
In fairness, it is not just the US, though it is worse there. In the UK we've been concerned for some years with the growth of what is sometimes called the "precariat": the growing proportion of society working in the "gig" economy with little or no security, sometimes on zero hours contracts etc. Uber argued in a 2016 court case that their drivers were self-employed and thus Uber had no employer's responsibilities towards them. The judge thought otherwise, I'm pleased to say. And there have been bust-ups over employment conditions for people working in delivery warehouses for on-line companies such as Amazon and Sports Direct.
The European approach to Covid-19 seems to be different from the US one, however. In Europe, employers have been encouraged by means of government subsidy to keep employees on the payroll rather than sacking them, while the business is unable to trade. From what I gather in the US they get sacked and Trump writes everyone a personally signed, derisory one-off cheque, in the hope they will vote for him in November out of gratitude. Unless I have got that last bit wrong.....
In Australia too... the main idea politically, is to realise that the employee either receives an unemployment payment or a employment safeguard payment. Either way the employee will get paid a safety net payment. One keeps unemployment stats down the other doesn't.
Keep in mind that many/most who are unemployed also live with someone else so that there is either another full paycheck or another boosted unemployment benefit check.
A key aspect of the European/Australian strategy is to maintain the hibernating employment of staff so that when the crisis stabilizes and the business can reopen they have a ready staff to do so.
Some people aren't going to have a job with the same employer when this is all over. Some employers won't be around. In any event, I don't see a lot of wide-spread panic. I can see a few idiots (nationwide) on the news but locally or in talking to friends across the country I don't see any wide spread problems at this point.
One of the problems is that there are way too many unknowns involved with this novel virus.
Lower level employees generally take more risk than executive level, and far more than shareholders - who risk nothing but money they didn't immediately need anyway, after all.
More like forty years - or have you guys forgotten what life was like under Reagan, Bush, W, and the Republican Congresses whose majority was made by Rush Limbaugh?
Continuing to do what made him President - why would he stop?
They take far less risk. If they do their jobs competently, they usually keep them. C-suite executives are canned if they don't deliver - because the BOD wants to see results.