[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'd also like to see people trade commodities only if they have the space to store them or have made a claim that they are directly impacted by cost of future commodities. It makes no sense that a hedge fund should influence the price of goods they would never use.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Agreed. We are already kind of there. We have enough food to feed everybody but the people who access it are those with enough money. Profitable food is what gets investments, not healthy food. And what we see more and more is that profits are not driven by feeding the best quality to the most people.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    This hits home as an older guy. The school friends that I've held on to are the closest people to me. But I only see them once or twice a year. I wouldn't expect my child to really get to know them but they are very important to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Especially when they are using cash for stock buybacks and dividends. For decades they favored share holders over development and employees. Hopefully the employees get help if these companies really can't compete. But Ford had billions in positive cash flow last year, so maybe this is all just crying wolf right now.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This is why fighting for rights for those that don't have them also results in better conditions for those who started in a slightly better position. Programs like the Black Prisoner's Caucus create better conditions for white inmates as well. This concept is pretty common in activist spaces.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Honestly, after your reading youre examples, it seems like things are worse today.

    25 people were killed in the Salem witch trials. That is about the same number of unarmed black people killed by police every year.

    And in your other example, 5 million people were killed in 154 years. In the post 9/11 Middle East wars, there were about 1 million people killed in 20 years. There were 100,000+ civilian deaths in Iraq which was the result of misleading WMD lies. So a lot of death from a "wrong" messenger in modern days too.

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