Mass strikes across France today, after unions called another day of action in response to the attempt to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The country’s transportation network halted, schools closed, and 250 strike actions took place.
“unemployment serves as a worker-discipline device because the prospect of a costly unemployment spell produces sufficient fear of job loss to motivate workers to perform well”
It's surreal to watch financial news talk about regular people having money to spend and job security as a negative thing. If you ever needed convincing that the health of "the economy" is a conspiracy against working people, watch this clip from CNBC that just aired.
I love that the US is dominated entirely by a wholly pointless and parasitic “health insurance” industry that has absolutely no objective reason to exist, cures no one, solves nothing, only rent seeks and creates needless Byzantine hurdles to basic care. This is my favorite part
Voters in Mississippi, where hospitals are shutting down due to lack of expansion, would have been able to vote to expand Medicaid last Tuesday.
But two days after the campaign to put it on the ballot began, the MS Supreme Court struck down our entire ballot initiative process.
CEO of $12 billion company told investors "I pray for inflation every day," an unusually candid admission that corporations use inflation as an excuse to jack up prices.
"Every point of inflation expands our margins.”
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