John DoeDoe

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@foucaultsbestie @MatthewKurtP @Crab__Mentality @MFleik @abaker093 @DavidOo999 @kierstenmojica @No39544540 #SP22 Now businesses don't pay their workers enough and the power of the union has been gutted via lobbying (or as most people call it, legalized corruption). (2/2)

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@foucaultsbestie @MatthewKurtP @Crab__Mentality @MFleik @abaker093 @DavidOo999 @kierstenmojica @No39544540 #SP22 Yes, I believe that is why the workers are currently suffering so much. We believed the economists of the 1980s who said that the only responsibility of a business is to make money. We took out virtue and morals from business and created a slippery slope. (1/2)

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@Crab__Mentality @MatthewKurtP @MFleik @abaker093 @DavidOo999 @kierstenmojica @No39544540 #SP22 impact on the world around them, so to say that their only responsibility is to make money is to resolve them of any responsibility their business decisions may have on the greater world and community around them. (3/3)

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@Crab__Mentality @MatthewKurtP @MFleik @abaker093 @DavidOo999 @kierstenmojica @No39544540 #SP22 should be money is a very simplistic way to look at a complex subject. Much akined to the economists in the 1980s who said the only objective of a business is to make money. But businesses are organizations made up of employees that need to be taken care of, they have (2/3)

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@Crab__Mentality @nik_berardi @MatthewKurtP @MFleik @abaker093 @DavidOo999 @kierstenmojica @No39544540 #SP22 Ok, but so lets say the why is to feed your family, would it be okay for the "how" to be - stealing from another person? What if that person is also trying to feed their family? The how matters just as much as the why.

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@Crab__Mentality @MFleik @abaker093 @DavidOo999 @kierstenmojica @No39544540 #SP22 Profit is profit. Unfortunately, not all profit is morally equal. We must focus on the effect that attaining that profit has. If it causes no harm, or if it causes harm, makes all the difference.

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@ellen3cross @No39544540 #SP22 I think were we are running into problems is when mega corporations are the landlords because to them all that matters is profit, so cutting corners is well within their moral compass. As oppossed to an individual landlord having a varied moral compass.

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@haydanbloomberg @Crab__Mentality @StonyUB #SP22 Self-image or identity will keep people from recognizing their wrong doings. The belief that I am a good person, cannot exist with I have done something wrong in the average person's brain. So one must disappear. And nobody wants to be the villain.

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@DavidOo999 #SP22 Of course personal responsibility could be a reason. Lottery winners blow all their earnings and end up back in poverty.But I think external factors keep people in poverty more than personal actions. Like the discussion we had in class of the women trying to move apartments

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@rzbandz @NicoleB2017 @StonyUB #SP22 A smartphone is almost necessary if someone is going to be a successful functioning member of society. Email, bank accounts, gig economy apps, the internet to find jobs, to find apartments. Life without some sort of connection to tech, seems very difficult to actually live

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@James20538875 @ashacharles14 #SP22 This model minority myth is used as an argument to not help minorities and immigrants, using the "but the asians are doing just fine, why do you need help." My point is that even harmless stereotypes can have effects no one intended. (2/2)

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@James20538875 @ashacharles14 #SP22 I was watching a street interview with then presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and an asian person was saying to him that Yang saying jokes like "I'm asian so you know i'm good at math." was perpetuating the model minority stereotype. (1/2)

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@hkmilktealover @sp22person @Tweets2Jared #SP22 I think we often forget that there are public libraries with both wifi and all the knowledge we could ask for. Even if the library doesn't have the book you want, they can get it transferred from a library that does. So i dont think we are unequal in access to knowledge.

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@sp22_jenn136 @No39544540 #SP22 I agree, as long as the job and the people with whom you work aren't a soul crushing machine, then there's not point to passion as long as the job pays well. Passion can be reserved for your hobbies.

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@hkmilktealover @klaralalo @kierstenmojica @MatthewKurtP @sp22_jenn136 @StonyUB #SP22 Right, the we can use your salary to do more good deeds. But I would argue against that employer that paying someone fairly for what their labor is worth is also a good thing. It facilitates good living, and thats what all nonprofits are ultimately about.

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@James20538875 #SP22 I have feeling that if this were to happen and we still had a capitalistic system, then the other monkeys would get nothing unless they traded it for their labor or other resources.

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@No39544540 #SP22 But is it stealing? I understand that everyone should get housing. But at the end of the day, money is being exchanged for use of their building. I definitely do think that there should be some sort of governing body over landlords to keep things a bit more ethical.

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@rzbandz #SP22 part of the house problem is also because there are conglomerates both american and foreign who are able to buy up hundreds and thousands of houses and then sell them when demand and thus price is super high. They're making it, so regular people can't afford anything.

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@Lawrenc51239184 @DavidOo999 #SP22 I would say you sympathize is seeing their point, seeing where their concern is coming from. Filling the shoes is experiencing how a black person experiences life and that is impossible to recreate.