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JahaRa

JahaRa

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dr wu said:
That's more an hour than my oldest daughter makes in Indiana where we live...granted we live in the midwest and she has a rent free home that my parents owned which is paid for.
But....I'm not sure it's Bezos obligation to make sure people make enough to live wherever they want. Life is unfair sometimes...but we simply can't change everything all the time to suit everyone's problems. The world is not perfect.
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It is a problem though if employers don't care about their employees, it makes the employees slaves if they live in an area that has no jobs. Usually the solution is to find a better job, but I have been in positions where I could not find a better job without moving to another state, which I did, but understand why some would not.
 
Sheltie

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
I worked at Amazon for 4 years and I can tell you all the horror stories you've heard about them are absolutely true. It's not like regular warehouse work; they work you to death.

One of the main reasons I quit was because the stock sharing program was eliminated. Originally employees were periodically awarded shares of Amazon stock. I still have all of my shares. Back when I received them, the price was about $200 to $250 a share. Today it's about $3,400 a share.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
JahaRa said:
It is a problem though if employers don't care about their employees, it makes the employees slaves if they live in an area that has no jobs. Usually the solution is to find a better job, but I have been in positions where I could not find a better job without moving to another state, which I did, but understand why some would not.
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Other side of the coin is to be a small business owner. Minimum wage and health care mandates can and do strangle independents to death.

Huge retailers are what we want. I was in a Walmart and Home Depot yesterday and my eyes just spin in different directions thinking about all the schlock waste nonsense I see. The jobs these places provide are the price we pay for our shopping addiction. Jeff Bezos is rich beyond imagination and we are not, but most of us probably have Amazon accounts.

Sheltie said:
stock sharing program was eliminated
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Yeeup. I hear that. Let them eat cake.
 
dr wu

dr wu

Noble
pigfarmer said:
Other side of the coin is to be a small business owner. Minimum wage and health care mandates can and do strangle independents to death.

Huge retailers are what we want. I was in a Walmart and Home Depot yesterday and my eyes just spin in different directions thinking about all the schlock waste nonsense I see. The jobs these places provide are the price we pay for our shopping addiction. Jeff Bezos is rich beyond imagination and we are not, but most of us probably have Amazon accounts.



Yeeup. I hear that. Let them eat cake.
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Yes..I was a small business owner for over 30 years and believe me it's hard to make ends meet, pay my home bills, put my kids through college ,and still be fair to employees.
The Bezos of the 'capitalist world' (and I was/am a capitalist btw for my whole adult life) are simply far far too rich for anyone's good inlcuding that of the countries they live in. And this is not some lefty redistribution of wealth thing...it's calling out major greed when one sees it. Sure they provide jobs...but what kind and how good are they in the scheme of things?
We need a change in the way we do things but without ruining the whole system. The 1% in 2017 held almost 40% of the nations wealth...we won't survive as a nation if that continues no matter what political system you pay lip service to.
Charles A. Beard wrote in a 1936 article in the Virginia Quarterly Review, "Jefferson knew that nations are not immortal, that governments are transient, that concentrated wealth and widespread poverty can not forever endure side by side in a democracy." (Beard is describing Jefferson's thinking, not quoting him directly,..)
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
 
Toroid

Toroid

Founding Member
nivek said:
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Maybe that's some sort of alien technology. This is a quote from The Law of One "There is no other material except light." According to the late Preston Nichols everything we see is magnetized light. Angels told Drunvalo that it's all just light.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Toroid said:
Maybe that's some sort of alien technology.
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It's Con Ed, brother :)

That happened a year or two ago and freaked everyone out. Nasty business those big transformers. I think the color has something to do with the goo they use as a dielectric.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
A refusal to acknowledge US laws, belief in UFOs and selling fake passports to pay for their abandoned house HQ: The inside story of the 'Rise of the Moors' militia who hit the headlines after stand-off with Mass. cops



Eleven men were taken into custody early Saturday morning on July 3 after a nine-hour standoff between Massachusetts police and heavily armed men in tactical gear who claimed to be part of a militia group called Rise of the Moors. The men claimed that they were headed to Maine for ‘training’ and told cops that they 'adhere to 'Moorish Sovereign Ideology.''

The group’s leader, Jahmal Latimer, also known as Talib Abdulla Bey (inset) stated: 'We're not anti- police, we're not sovereign citizens, we're not black identity extremists.’ However, research into the little-known group reveals their bizarre adherence in the 'Moorish sovereign citizens' movement that believes they are part of their own sovereign nation and therefore not subject to any US law.

Rise of the Moors takes its teachings from the Noble Drew Ali (main) and his successor Brother Edward Mealy El (bottom left) who founded the Moorish Science Temple in 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland (bottom right). Other factions of the ‘Moorish sovereign citizen’ movement borrow from Black Hebrew Israelism, Nation of Islam, UFO theories, phony Native American tribes, and pseudo-legal arguments crafted by white supremacist 'patriot' groups of the 1970s.

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nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
wwkirk said:
Bill Cosby's conviction overturned; he will be released!

Bill Cosby’s conviction overturned by Pa. Supreme Court
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Now he's going to sue and try to get thousands of dollars claiming wrongful imprisonment...I hope the Judge in that matter will have common sense and not give this guy anything...He's still guilty, he just got out on a technicality...

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Bill Cosby filing to recoup ‘hundreds of thousands’ of dollars for wrongful incarceration, publicist says

Bill Cosby’s legal team is reportedly exploring a countersuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for what they believe was a "wrongful incarceration" after the embattled performer served two years of a three- to-10-year sentence for sexual assault.

Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the 83-year-old actor’s conviction after finding that District Attorney Kevin Steele, the prosecutor who brought the case against Cosby, violated an agreement to not charge him. It was a deal that previous District Attorney Bruce Castor had made in 2005, though it had apparently never been put in writing.

"We are looking at all legal angles for those things right now," Cosby’s spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt said Friday during an appearance on "The Domenick Nati Show" when the topic was raised of potential state compensation for the disgraced comic.

"We are looking at what recourse, what legal recourse we can take against the state of Pennsylvania."

"Isn't he owed money for every day that he's in jail or am I wrong?" Nati asked Wyatt, to which the Cosby representative pressed, "He's owed money. It's a lot of owed money."

"Our attorneys are filing the paperwork now," he added. "[Cosby] is owed a lot of money." Wyatt was further probed to provide a "ballpark" estimate of how much he believes Cosby is owed for his incarceration. "A couple hundred grand," he said. "A couple hundred thousand."

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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in Norristown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.

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HAL9000

HAL9000

Honorable
..t was a deal that previous District Attorney Bruce Castor had made in 2005, though it had apparently never been put in writing...

So no proof it ever happened.
 
dr wu

dr wu

Noble
HAL9000 said:
..t was a deal that previous District Attorney Bruce Castor had made in 2005, though it had apparently never been put in writing...

So no proof it ever happened.
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Yes..how does a verbal deal exonerate him on that basis? Shouldn't there be some written proof?
 
dr wu

dr wu

Noble
Well...none of this denies the fact he was found guilty and there were numerous witnesses to his actions so how does he think he can recoup financial losses from this is beyond me. He must be a real stinker and his lawyers also.
And I was a fan of I Spy and his later comedy career....it really ruins my enjoyment of those things today. :(
 
HAL9000

HAL9000

Honorable
The problem is with the laws you have. Technically if he was imprisoned, even if guilty, but he was bared from being prosecuted by some previous agreement, then his lawyers can claim he was wrongfully prosecuted. On the basis he shouldn't have been prosecuted at all. It's ridiculous.
Like most of the rich and famous, he will probably win. And he's black, so BLM will jump on his case sure as eggs are eggs. George Floyd is fading, they need a new martyr.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
dr wu said:
Well...none of this denies the fact he was found guilty and there were numerous witnesses to his actions so how does he think he can recoup financial losses from this is beyond me. He must be a real stinker and his lawyers also.
And I was a fan of I Spy and his later comedy career....it really ruins my enjoyment of those things today. :(
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Cosby should be thanking his lucky stars he got out of prison considering he's not innocent of those crimes, instead of pushing the envelope...

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