I was blown away went I watched the source material, and kind of pissed it took that long for me to see it.

She was so nice, and these people were having honest discourse.

Money really needs to get out of politics. It’s foul how we have to play the game to judge the integrity of decisions.

For the people? Or for the payout?

Obnoxious government

Thank you for your sincere response

Write your senators about this folks, if you really care about Bernie and AOC, write your Senator and let them know you support Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Urge them to stand with them, or to at least listen to what these two folks have to say.

It probably wont do anything, but if we keep writing them (I write weekly) dropping their names, maybe they will take the fuckin hint

I saw a weird propaganda YouTube short the other day about him. It was a half AI short video just talking about how good of a person he is LMAO

I agree with you, but I also feel that AOC is what the Democratic party is supposed to be. She is not the status quo.

Yes

How can you represent the interests of the people, and their needs, while also representing the interests of a corporation when their goals dont align?

I’m here for group three

The revolution is basically inevitable now. May take decades before anything meaningful changes for the people, but it’s suffering is inevitable.

The dems are complicit, as a youth I was an independent. Bernie got me to register Dem, and I’ve never felt so betrayed, betrayed by this party constantly. I’m out. Its going to get worse before it gets better, sucks but, here weeeeee ah goooo

So I understand you likely are against any universal healthcare in our country? Because of jobs?

There’s always more healthcare staff needed everywhere, maybe if education and trainings for those jobs wasn’t so expensive…

Not every person in New Jersey works for big pharma. There are other folks too, Booker should be representing all of them, not just the ones who pay him off.

Bro

Amazing! I’ve never tried nopales, but the more I hear about it, the more I’d like to!

The best time to read books for me, was when I was paid to do it.

I worked the ticket booth at a state park. We had a lake, so we’d stay open even if it was raining. We’d have four or five boats come in the morning, I’d take their fees. The rest of the day I would sit in that booth making minimum wage, sitting in a small shelter from the rain, while being in the woods, and I’d read the whole time. I read 6 books that summer just from down time sitting in the booth

Read on my own time? I can’t remember to bring the book with me. I really just need to put one in my purse… oh look, I forgot to do that … again.

Im interested in knowing what solo boardgames you like?

This is exactly how it goes for me too

I quit playing the Sims 4, I am simply, a builder. I would go on a month binge, then not play for 6months. Sometimes I’d play once a month-

But having to fix my mods every single time I booted was so much. I never had issue finding what was broken, it was just so time consuming. Then after two hours the game would be ready to play, and … I would be instantly bored, forgot my house plan to the mind vortex, all energy spent, ugh. That game is seriously dead.

I was beyond excited to move from xbox to pc with that game. amazing how it took no time at all for me to hate it.

I also play PvE Rust, it takes like a half hour to load in, and i get a whopping 33FPS. Love that game so much, 20-30mins loading time is fine if I dont have to fix mods like a sleuth every fuckin time I want to play. Just walk slowly so the graphics can load in lmao

I still load into Rust and immediately just, log off often. Hyperfocus just isnt there sometimes. Thats when I load N (it’s free and fun!) and play short levels.

Got 7000 words done, fuck yeahhhhh Dinner was never made, but got a large chunk of it done! You folks are so supportive! Thank you! Warms my heart

I have to, I mean HAVE to, get paperwork done today.

So far today I have mowed/weed wacked the yard, weeded and watered my garden, pulled meat from the freezer to defrost and planned dinner for tonight, and took one phone call in regards to said paperwork. They called me, of course.

I’m now on break and it’s nearly noon. This paperwork is over my head and I am overwhelmed. I could start on other chores just to avoid it, instead I uh, am taking break. I have to get this done, and I am annoyed as to why I have to do it at all… I might just pull it out to look at it. That’s step one no?

Was watching the knicks game the other night, noticed a man with an isreal flag hat on standing behind the coach. I couldn’t enjoy the rest of the game.

They’re out there… blind obedience is fucking illogical

Everyone here seems to be talking about co-ops… And I’m really confused by the conversation in this thread, alas,

I worked for some years for a manufacturing company that was 100% employee owned. We were a multinational manufacturer for: wire and cable, aerospace, and medical. The company began around 1972, started the EO process in the early 90’s becoming 100% employee owned by 2000.

The [National Center for Employee Ownership] (nceo.org) is a good resource for businesses looking at employee ownership. The most common ESOPs are manufacturing companies in the states last I heard at one of the nceo conferences.

The obstacles that I see, is that most companies have Investors. Obviously we all know what the investors want as they own the stock. It takes a generous leadership/company founder to sell their stock to the company for employee ownership. It’s a long process with lawyers and other legal hurdles. Not impossible, but finding generosity in the white collar business class, especially today, is not common it seems. You must have initial generosity and care for your employees from the initial owners. They decide to go employee owned or not. They either see the investment EO is, or they keep greedy.

The founder of the EO I worked for sold his last stock to the company for the same price he sold his first stock (which in the ten-ish years it took to get to 100% EO, raised considerably).

Profit sharing is dope. Basically we all got an extra large paycheck every quarter. This company I worked for paid $3-$4 more per hour to start than any other manufacturing company in the area, and bennies began the day you were hired. They literally held financial literacy classes for all employees, to better understand our financial reports, as the company was super transparent. They believed that the best ideas come from the ones running the machines, and the founder often could be found sweeping floors of his shops to better know his employees and their struggles. In 2019, the company stock was valued at over $6K a share.

The original owner passed away, then covid hit, (I left) then the leadership changed to new people who never met the founder. It’s gone down hill since. Im to be paid out this year, and the stock is half was it was when I left. I still carry a card with the original founders mission and values listed for the company. That card is no longer what they follow. It’s been sad to see.

However, I still believe Employee Ownership is a solid pathway to restoring the middle class.

Folks who began in the 90s were retiring after 25 years with the company with $1-$2 million dollars in their esop accounts alone. I know what a Roth IRA is, what it means to diversify, and what dividends are all because of this company’s financial literacy classes.

It also is possible a company becomes too big to support the EO model. This company was hitting that point around the time I left, they told us “we’re hiring lawyers to make sure that it doesn’t happen”, but as I’ve watched the stock price drop year over year, yeah bet-

Which is why I scream about employee ownership whenever I can. It’s the closest we can get in the states I think right now. NCEO