#CorporateGreed
❝Ek said the firm had debated making smaller job cuts next year and in 2025. “Yet, considering the gap between our financial goal state and our current operational costs, I decided that a substantial action to right-size our costs was the best option to accomplish our objectives,” he added.❞
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/tech/spotify-layoffs-third-round/index.html
Good grief! #AER says it is inappropriate to speculate on accountability. WOW! https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/overhaul-it-or-tank-it-alberta-energy-regulator-under-fire-after-latest-kearl
#abpoli #AbLeg #RegulatoryCapture #BigOil #CorporateGreed #WaterisLife #TarSands #OilSands #COP28
Egg suppliers ordered to pay $17.7 million by federal jury for price gouging in 2000s
of course, we consumers COULD all #GoVegan & solve the animal torture & slavery part of the price gouging problem
#greed #CorporateGreed #Greedflation #food #egg https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egg-suppliers-ordered-to-pay-17-7-million/
Meanwhile in #Nashville. Piedmont Natural Gas wants me to round up my bill to the next dollar to help my neighbors.
They are part of a company (Duke Energy) that made 4.6 billion dollars in profits in the first quarter of 2023.
Hey, Duke Energy, I have an idea if you really want to help...
#CorporateGreed #PiedmontNaturalGas
#RBC chief executive #DaveMcKay made some of his most forceful comments yet on the importance of the #GovernmentOfCanada approving the bank's $13.5-billion #takeover of #HSBC #Canada as the deal attracts rising opposition.
https://biv.com/article/2023/11/royal-bank-ceo-defends-vancouver-based-hsbc-canada-deal
#Bank4ABetterFuture #DivestFromRBC #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #Capitalist #EnvironmentalRacism #RBCfundsEcocide #RBCfundsGenocide #BoycottRBC #PullFundsFromRBC #CloseYourRBCaccount #EvilMan #EvilBank #BigBankerBS
A pretty chilling variant of "This item was made with love by ...", and a reminder that the responsibility for corporate supply chains needs to be regulated by law.
#SupplyChain #CorporateGreed #humanrights #China
["It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on #Spotify this year,” #WeirdAlYankovic said in his video. “So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice #sandwich at a restaurant.”
He added, “So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.”]
Sometimes I wonder what is going through the heads of marketing execs. BP are currently running ads telling us with full hearted enthusiasm that 30% of their investment is on renewables.
Meaning that in a Climate crisis that 70% of their investment is on fossil fuels?
I guess, thanks for letting us know you are actively investing in killing the planet.
Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings Of Dangerous Conditions
#transportation
#CorporateGreed
https://www.propublica.org/article/union-pacific-railroad-dangerous-conditions-warnings-fired-employee
Carbon capture a worthless excuse for action on climate change - fixed your headline @CBCNews https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/carbon-capture-canada-iea-1.7041175
#Canada #ClimateEmergency #CarbonCapture #CorporateScam #CorporateGreed #COP28
@ArrowbearMoore It's evil. I loathe ecocidal maniacs. I don't wish death on most people. I do wish agonizing deaths upon environmental demons who delightfully profit from killing life on Earth. I'm ruthless with folks who are addicted to ecocide & feel it's part of my duties as a human being, actively paying my overdue rent to #MotherEarth.
Oh look, an article written by someone who backs the Canadian Oil industry. Of course electric car mandates will fail. Ignore all the countries where this has worked succefully. Nothing to see here. #corporateGreed #canada #environment #electricvehicles #electriccars
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-electric-vehicle-sales-canada-government-mandates/
Standard Chartered pays R42.7 million (US$2.3 million) and admits manipulating dollar-South African rand exchange rate between 2007 and 2013.
"There are wide open spaces to breathe in,” promises Saguenay’s tourism website, displaying fjords, forests and snowshoe trails.
What it neglects to #advertise: the #timber, #phosphate & #niobium projects spoiling its landscape.
About 200 kms north of #Quebec City, #Saguenay’s boroughs are clustered around #mines & plants that include some of the province’s largest #industrial #polluters.
https://breachmedia.ca/quebec-saguenay-green-tech-future-aluminum-industry/
#Canada #environmental #pollution #CorporateGreed #Ecocide #GreedKills #CDNpoli
These companies go out of business and disappear to avoid the cost of of clean up after a well field is closed.
Then the people who ran these "defunct" companies come up with a new name to operate under and start working again for the oil corporations they serve and provide with enough distance from the environmental damage so they, too, avoid the cost of clean up.
Clean up is left to the states where oil exploration is conducted.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/abandoned-oil-wells-coast-bays/
#Capitalism #FossilFuel #CorporateGreed
Martineau said she had management’s permission to talk about her #union experience, and denied using profanity.
Three days later, after arriving early, doing homework at a table, donning her work shoes and apron and charging the iPads, she was called into a side room, and #fired.
“It was #retaliation for #unionizing,” said Martineau, who is now weighing her options and seeking advice.
#Starbucks #Vancouver #YVR #StarbucksUnion #CorporateGreed #BoycottStarbucks
It’s complicated: #CanadianMuseumOfNature rethinks its relationship status with #Enbridge.
#Canadian #nature #museum says it’s ‘revising’ its #fundraising policy while former president defends taking #FossilFuel #money.
A trove of #InternalDocuments reviewed by #TheNarwhal has shed light on how the museum’s leadership spent considerable time & effort #soliciting money & other support from Enbridge, a large #OilAndGas company.
As voting wrapped up on Friday, United Auto Workers members at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis were all on track to approve contracts ...
"It's a good contract, you just can't get around that," said one UAW local president. "You look at the investment we got in 2019 compared to now, it's not rocket science. It's just better."#joebiden #labor #workers #corporategreed #ford #generalmotors #shawnfain #stellantis #uawstrike #unitedautoworkers
Big Three Autoworkers Approve Contracts After UAW Strike
"the rates being paid to the privately-owned Don Mills Surgical Unit Ltd. are noticeably higher than what the province provides public hospitals for the same procedures." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinic-surgeries-fees-hospitals-1.7026926
#HealthCare #Privatization #onpoli #CorporateGreed #NeverVoteConservative
#Journal, Day 1331
Friday, 10 November 2023
#UkraineWar: Day 626
#HamasIsraelWar: Day 34
#Massshootings in the USA in 2023: 598
#sagaftrastrike #workload
#unionvote #postopeecovery
#turtles #birdsofinstagram
#corporategreed
(Using a Jon Stewart voice): "and then there's this a-hole":
Quote "It took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie," Katzenberg said at a Bloomberg conference. "I don't think it will take 10 percent of that [with AI]." #movies #CorporateGreed
Guess Zazlav and other top exec need their tax write-offs … I mean their bonuses to get over the dual strikes. Just awful: Warner Bros. Shelves John Cena’s ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Movie a Year After It Completed Filming #movies #Zazlav #PullingAZazlav #CorporateGreed
#Journal, Day 1330
Thursday, 09 November 2023
#UkraineWar: Day 625
#HamasIsraelWar: Day 33
#Massshootings in the USA in 2023: 597 & holding
#exhausted #movingfurniture #sagaftrastrike #corporategreed #mailbird #misrepresentation
#fraud
#Jezebel is no more: via Will Sommer on twitter: "G/O Media is shutting down Jezebel after failing to find a buyer. Memo just went out from Jim Spanfeller; I'm hearing the Jezebel shutdown is instantaneous — staffers have already been kicked off Slack and email. Also in memo, G/O says it's laying off 23 editorial staffers across its properties, including the Jezebel layoffs."
Hollow gratitude and a bad day for reproductive rights in the U.S.
#NoLiberalPress #CorporateGreed
ETA WGA weighs in
@brucelawson “Same Safari. Different device”. Ha!
If you pay for Prime, be ready to pay for ads in your videos starting early 2024
And if you don't want ads, you pay some more on top of your Prime fees.
But, "free with Prime" right? just like Kindle Unlimited is "free".
It's #CorporateGreed all the way down.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-to-introduce-ads-prime-video-2024/
Well this pisses me off... Not gonna buy Samsung or Motorola ever again, disabling phones remotely wth?! 😡 #DRM #Overreach #CorporateGreed #Data #Mexico
"It’s time to make polluters pay. The Government of Canada should move ahead with the proposal to implement a windfall tax on the fossil fuel industry’s excess profits." https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/10/26/statement-new-estimate-from-parliamentary-budget-office-shows-excess-profit-tax-on-fossil-fuels-would-bring-in-billions/
#cdnpoli #WealthTax #Profiteering #ClimateBreakdown #CorporateGreed #BigOil
Just 3 days ago I tooted how Netflix is raising its prices, again.
Now it's Apple's turn to do the same. That a trillion-dollar company wants more, always more is absolutely disgusting!
#Capitalism #CorporateGreed #Wednesday
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/apple-raises-price-of-apple-tv-to-9point99-a-month.html
"behind every great fortune is a great crime. It was this #Osage oil that created one of #America’s greatest fortunes: the Koch family, whose wealth is calculated at over $120bn. #Kochs have used this wealth to build a fearsome ultra-rightwing force that can create and destroy political careers." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/20/martin-scorsese-killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-us-government
#BigOil #uspoli #CorporateGreed #RegulatoryCapture #IndigenousPeoples #Colonialism #Film
Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion
"If there's one thing I took away from Propublica's explosive IRS Files, it's that "tax avoidance" (which is legal) isn't a separate phenomenon from "tax evasion" (which is not), but rather a thinly veiled euphemism for it:"
#Microsoft #taxevasion #monopolies #CorporateCrimes #CorporateGreed #corydoctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/13/pour-encoragez-les-autres/
Growth should not mean "more",
but instead should mean better,
broader and deeper.
Full of anger for @bandcampunited staff that have been laid off, for the artists for whom it was their primary platform, and for the users who love their #BandCamp collections. I fall into two of those categories.
Why can't nice things be left alone?
#Haiku #TinyPoem #WritingCommunity #BandCampUnited #Capitalism #CorporateGreed
A Murder Story: Whatever Happened to Interoperability? The eminent Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic, accurately reveals the murder of #interoperability by tech giants in this new post. Long, but totally worth a read. Here’s a sample: “Interoperability wasn’t killed by the reverse-engineer-proof computer nor by the lack of market demand for aftermarket modifications. It was killed by regulatory capture, arising from market concentration, arising from the bad idea that monopolies are efficient sources of consumer welfare, rather than deep-pocketed rent-seekers who leverage their scale to extinguish rivals, corrupt our politics, harm workers, and gouge customers.” #tech #technology #TechNews #CorporateGreed https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-murder-story-whatever-happened-to-interoperability/
A story of corporate greed
In pictures.
As in they can't even fill it completely
#corporategreed
#greedflation
Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government. You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.
#Socialism only when it benefits you. #Bailout #CorporateGreed #Greedflation #LivingWage #TaxTheMegaRich #Capitalism
1 million Poles protesting outside parliament today against fascist Government’s decisions taken to appease corporate greed rather than the populations interest.
#ClimateCrisis #CorporateGreed #CostOfLiving #CorruptGovernment #Fascism #Billionaires #IndirectPlutocracy
We recently had a letter from our ISP saying that they were going to increase prices annually by the RPI rate of inflation /plus an additional 3.9%/
If that isn't #Greedinflation, I don't know what is @ChrisMayLA6 !
#Greed #CorporateGreed
Eight years ago, #Airbnb was a new platform with a hidden dark side. Now the warnings are sounding again over the future impacts of #AI - ABC News #gigeconomy #corporategreed https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-21/gig-economy-airbnb-artificial-intelligence/102879888
It is remarkable the number of people who boycotted Bud or Target, driven by a desire to deny people rights. But when their own rights are denied, time and again, they do nothing. #corporategreed If you like my work, consider subscribing! https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/forget-bud-or-target
If you can’t afford to pay your workers a living wage, you don’t actually have a business model.
“McDonald’s franchisee group says new California fast-food bill will cause ‘devastating financial blow’”
Addendum 1 cont'd
* 39% respondents feel economic issues impact their mental health
* suicide ideation among Canadians experiencing financial challenges alarmingly high
* 41% reporting having thought about suicide 2022-2023
* inflation affecting Canadians: 24% report going into debt as result
...
#Canada #suicide #ideation #mhrc #MentalHealth #economy #inflation #profiteering #CorporateGreed #DefundCorporations #HumanRights #AffordableHousing #FoodSecurity #socialism
Addendum 1
Suicide ideation is a problem in Canada. Here's why experts think it's more prevalent
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/suicide-ideation-is-a-problem-in-canada-here-s-why-experts-think-it-s-more-prevalent-1.6551797
Mental Health Research Canada: https://www.mhrc.ca
Financial stressors are having an alarming impact on the mental health of struggling Canadians
https://www.mhrc.ca/findings-of-poll-17
...
#Canada #suicide #ideation #mhrc #MentalHealth #economy #inflation #profiteering #CorporateGreed #DefundCorporations #HumanRights #AffordableHousing #FoodSecurity #socialism
Github actions are designed with no CPU efficiency in mind.
It terrifies me how much time Github actions spent doing same things again and again in cases where it could easily be mitigated by cache and a good CI system design that targeted to spent resources effectively in general.
Unsurprisingly Github Actions billing is based on minutes spent repeatedly doing those things.
#Github #GithubActions #GiveUpGitHub #CI #CarbonEmissions #CorporateGreed
#Streaming companies are playing a very dangerous game with regards to the ongoing #wgastrike.
As a #filmworker previously employed by Netflix & other companies, I am currently out of work due to the never ending #greed of their rich studio execs.
Today, as we pass day 100, my wife and I concluded to drop our #AmazonPrime and #Netflix accounts in support of the #WGAStrike. We’ve been on Netflix for two decades now, what an end to an era!
At this point I wonder what it will take for these studios to ever bring us back…
Streaming companies have shown their true colours; their greed is toxic to writers, artists and the industry itself.
Is capitalism winning? Not in our home. We control own own dollar, and we’re done shelling out to #corporate junkies.
#WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike #Paramount #Disney #Apple #CorporateGreed #Capitalism
"the government is something more than corrupt. There’s corruption. There’s utter corruption. And then there’s funnelling more than $8 billion to your developer buddies and party donors through land swaps in the bright light of day and expecting to get away with it." https://www.tvo.org/article/the-greenbelt-report-proves-it-the-ford-government-is-corrupt
#Greenbelt #onpoli #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #TransactionalGovernance
#biodiversity #waterisLife
This is *not* getting the national attention that it deserves.
In short, the era of free over the air TV that goes back multiple generations in the United States may soon be over.
The FCC is soliciting comments on this matter. So if you feel strongly that airwaves belong the people, tell the FCC. #DRM #TV #CorporateGreed
https://youtu.be/0NhV5BdEWqo
Despite the current situation of our environment, they insist on their conquest of wealth.
Please boost for awareness
#Environment
#CorporateGreed
#StupidHumans
#FightBack
Supreme Court OKs completion of Mountain Valley gas pipeline : NPR
It saddens me that two generations have now grown up consuming almost all their music in compressed form - aka #mp3
My son's party #music at the weekend was (of course) all streamed from #Spotify. The sound quality is apalling. Mushy and lacking in sparkle and dynamics. Even including tracks which I know have been recorded to a very high quality standard.
And the artists behind the music are being screwed too.
How can we have gone so backwards 😩
#audiophile #hifi #corporategreed
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#LifesBetterWithTrees #BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed
https://twitter.com/JohnRMoffitt/status/1679580563923951620
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#LifesBetterWithTrees #BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed
https://twitter.com/LuannaSheridan1/status/1680164195826913281
#Capitalism is a cancer, and the deeper you dive into the rabbit hole, the more deception, lies, and ploys do you find at the core of the system that dominates our modern world. Recently I stumbled upon this great research paper of Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel), called "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century"
(You can read the full paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub#ab005)
These two gentlemen methodically and rationally take apart the entire hoax about #capitalism having historically improved living standards for the people under its influence, demasking it as a blatant lie.
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"As for the impact of capitalism on human welfare: data on wages, human height and mortality indicate that the rise and expansion of the capitalist world-system from circa 1500 caused a decline in nutritional standards and health outcomes. Recovery from this prolonged condition of crisis occurred only recently: the late 19th century in Northwest Europe and the mid-20th century in the periphery.
If one starts from the assumption that extreme poverty is the natural state of humanity, then it may appear as good news that only a fraction of the global population lives in extreme poverty today. However, if extreme poverty is a sign of severe social dislocation, relatively rare under normal conditions, then it should concern us that - despite many instances of progress since the middle of the 20th century - such dislocation remains so prevalent under contemporary capitalism. Depending on the subsistence basket one uses to measure poverty, as of 2008, between 200 million and 1.21 billion people live in extreme poverty[...]."
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As the paper proves and going by many other indicators and research done on #capitalism, the system doesn't view poverty as problem to be solved, but rather as a desired state of people and countries.
#Colonialism (now #neocolonialism) was built on the premise of a few rich and powerful exploiting aborigines and their land to enrich themselves while catering to a lowly and vulgar superiority complex. This continues all the way into modern times, where colonialists (now in the shape of multi-national corporations) extort resources from economically-weaker countries to feed their shareholders. For colonialism poverty plays a key role to keep the local population on a tight leash. After all, those who struggle to make a living have no time to think of rising against their oppressors, right?
But, this isn't limited to international relations either.
Take the US, the land of the free which embraces the capitalist mindset the most, for example (of course the same applies to all other capitalist countries but sadly the US is furthest down the line when it comes to implementing the worst aspects of capitalism).
Here you have companies artificially keeping a certain percentage of citizens poor because those people can then be used as leverage against the working citizens. #Poverty is being weaponized as a threat and as a state to be frowned upon. But, because of the social shunning and capitalist outlet labeling poverty as proof of "laziness", the 38 million poor Americans (figure according to US Government for 2021) cannot fight back. They're busy trying to survive. In a land that can fork over 900 billion dollars for its annual defense budget.
And to make clear that the US isn't an outlier with this either, Germany (my current homeland) has 17 million poor people (according to the Paritätische Sozialverband) - a country that has no problem spending billions to subsidize big corporations during Covid.
As such, you can see that capitalists and the governments steered by them have no interest in resolving the issue of poverty. Instead, they artificially create it to use it as a tool to extort ever more money from other countries and their own citizens.
Thanks for reading all the way to the end. I feel addressing poverty is a very important topic because the poor (of which I used to be part at some points of my life) don't have enough of a voice in media, politics, or anywhere else.
#SocialInequality #Social #systemchange #exploitation #corporategreed #capitalists #science #research #society
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries🙏
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries🙏
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries🙏
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries🙏
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries🙏
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #LifesBetterWithTrees #ClimateCrisis #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay
#BetterWithForests #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #Boycott4Wildlife #SaveTheOcean #CorporateGreed