@Kslone4 @PrimeVideo Oh dear. I do have Primevideo. Dah. That’s why I’m bummed because AmazonPrime is having streaming issues. May want to read more carefully before responding next time.
Really bummed I can’t watch the ACM awards tonight! Only viewing option is AMAZON PRIME and customer support told me it’s an “emerging issue”. That means anyone trying to stream cannot. He suggested I wait and watch when they are not live. Terrible experience.
#EpicFail#ACM
Restaurant workers had a min wage of $2.13 plus tips in 1991.
Restaurant workers have a min wage of $2.13 plus tips today.
In 1991, average rent was $600 a month. Now it's $1,600.
I don't know, but this might be part of the explanation for why restaurants can't find workers.
I keep hearing big companies say they can't afford to pay workers more. But I haven't heard a single one even consider cutting their CEO's $20 million salary.
I slashed my CEO salary to pay every worker a living wage.
Then our profits grew.
Employees make companies, not CEOs.
U.S. system in a nutshell:
1. A wealthy company founder gave $2 million to Congress
2. Congress gave the company a $628M contract to make vaccines
3. It produced 0 usable vaccines and ruined 15M doses
4. Founder got a $52M bonus. The CEO got a 51% bonus
https://t.co/tCd3Bav1a9
Struggling people can temporarily get a $50 government discount off their phone internet.
So Verizon required those people to upgrade to a plan that's $17-$50 a month more after the government discount ends.
Verizon makes $18 billion a year in profit
https://t.co/IPoHRtiz30
We often hold on to things that have no real importance today - mistakes, regrets or poor decisions. The thing is that everything we have experienced has taught us something. And so now that we know what not to do, we need to let the lessons lead us forward to what we can do.
Love a for-profit health care system, where a hospital chain that makes half a billion dollars in yearly profit is suing 19,000 people who can't pay their bills in a pandemic, for balances as low as $201.
Our system is heartless in so many ways
https://t.co/5Gsg5Y9qEU
"why don't young people love capitalism"
Millennials' entire careers:
2007-2010: "once in a lifetime" recession
2011-2019: pay stayed the same + all costs grew. Built average $8,000 net worth - 34% less than prior generations at same age
2020-2021: "once in a lifetime" recession
Big Pharma says they need to charge astronomical prices to pay for research and development. Yet, the amount they spend on manipulating the market to enrich shareholders completely eclipses what's spent on R&D. Today, I confronted a CEO about the industry's lies, with visuals ⤵️