Our current inflation isnt driven by wage increases. It's corporations jacking up prices to maximize profits

[Lezunto]

No. A retainer is a financial agreement to pay someone a set amount in the event that person is needed to work, perform or in your case, shine a spotlight on Hypocrisy. You've written some amazingly funny chit that has made me sit back and chuckle.

 

[Leeea]

Is a retainer that thing they put over a dogs muzzle to keep it from biting people.

A retainer is a quantity of money.

For example, I might give an attorney a $1,600 retainer. If I ever need his services, I can call him and not worry about discussing fees and payments before he looks into my legal problem.

This can be very convenient if for example, I am under arrest and unable to access my check book.


Writers are frequently kept on retainer for certain TV shows, so if the show needs a script or whatever, the writer can start working on it immediately and will have more time to meet the deadline.

 

[thilanliyan]

Why is any of this a problem?

In order for capitalism to work, companies need to be able to set their prices according to demand. If the demand is there, let them raise their prices. Supply will grow to catch up.

There are many industries where you can't just increase supply overnight and/or new companies can't thrive due to entrenched incumbents. See Canadian telecoms for an example.

 

[ElFenix]

No. A retainer is a financial agreement to pay someone a set amount in the event that person is needed to work, perform or in your case, shine a spotlight on Hypocrisy. You've written some amazingly funny chit that has made me sit back and chuckle.

a true retainer is a fee for me to be on call. i charge you for my hours on top of what you've already paid in as retainer. state bars have started disfavoring retainers because they're not refundable should the client change their mind. often firms will call a deposit of money that will later be billed against for those hours a 'retainer' but it isn't really a retainer - just a deposit.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Don't worry, the democrats are fighting for you!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552294858840330246

The text of @RepCuellar's bill the Workplace Flexibility & Choice Act is available. It would carve workers out of min wage & OT protections -- not just app-deployed workers -- ANY WORKER whose employer
Decided that they would set schedules using algorithms & incentives instead of providing secure hours WOULD NO LONGER HAVE TO PROVIDE A WAGE FLOOR or OVERTIME.

thank Nancy Pelosi for him btw, her and the rest of the fygm dems endorsed his indicted ass over a progressive ant-abortion candidate (who lost the primary by a couple of hundred votes)

Ugh I fucking hate Cuellar. Was so pissed when Jessica Cisneros, who was an awesome candidate, lost to that fucker in the runoff by a couple hundred votes. Might not even vote for a representative in November because I hate that piece of shit and fuck Pelosi too for supporting him over Cisneros. It wouldn't be like not voting for Clinton because Bernie lost. Cuellar is legitimately a worthless right wing piece of shit.

 

[ivwshane]

I don't really get the idea that inflation is driven by corporate greed. Is the idea that they weren't greedy from 2008 through 2021 and then became greedy? They've always been greedy so if corporate greed is your theory behind inflation then you need to explain why they couldn't have coordinated price increases before.

Pretty easy to start raising your prices when you have a political party screaming doom and gloom along with an actual supply chain issue. Why did it happen now? Because businesses could see the end of the pandemic along with the pent up demand coming, along with a raise in wages. Companies would be foolish not to take advantage of the narrative and circumstance and raise prices to hedge their bets. At the same time though, these same companies are most likely sitting on abnormal amounts of inventory so I expect we’ll see discounting of products to get rid of that inventory or we’ll see some really bad numbers in the upcoming quarters in terms of revenue. The companies with the record profits will be the ones to look at with regards to price gouging.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

How do you know it wasn't just an oversight that will soon be corrected?

Because it's Cuellar.

 

[Lezunto]

Thank you Leeea and El Fenix for setting me straight. I just want Moonbeam to keep writing funnies and get PAID.

 

[hal2kilo]

A retainer is a quantity of money.

For example, I might give an attorney a $1,600 retainer. If I ever need his services, I can call him and not worry about discussing fees and payments before he looks into my legal problem.

This can be very convenient if for example, I am under arrest and unable to access my check book.


Writers are frequently kept on retainer for certain TV shows, so if the show needs a script or whatever, the writer can start working on it immediately and will have more time to meet the deadline.

You forget to assume the /s in many of Moonie's posts. Divining the true nature can lead to a snipe hunt.

 

[shortylickens]

The shit kind of communist that ruins economies and destroys societies.

You mean like America?

Oh, wait......

 

[Leeea]

You mean like America?

Oh, wait......

America is worse.

In American we have communism for corporate losses, but profits are privatized. It has become nothing more then a exploitive system. Neither capitalism, communism, or socialism, but rather an implementation of piracy of the public purse.

Once a person gets past the wholesale looting, there is a decent system that attempts to balance components of capitalism with communism underneath. However, said system is permentantly off balance and corrupted by pirate class it needs to support.

 

[Fenixgoon]

America is worse.

In American we have communism for corporate losses, but profits are privatized. It has become nothing more then a exploitive system. Neither capitalism, communism, or socialism, but rather an implementation of piracy of the public purse.

Once a person gets past the wholesale looting, there is a decent system that attempts to balance components of capitalism with communism underneath. However, further balance would make the blatant looting more difficult, so is not allowed.

One might argue America has always been exploitative, and so has capitalism as a system.

It's not like slave-farmed cotton in America fueled the British textile industry or anything...

 

[KMFJD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1582475617723113472

one of the few good legislators

 

[NWRMidnight]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1582475617723113472

one of the few good legislators

Yep, she's great.. But, what is Congress going to do to stop the corporate raping of our wallets? Because right now, the corporations are giving us the middle finger, and there isn't really anything we can do about it. I know people will say "stop buying their product, stop supporting them", but that isn't possible when a lot of the products are a necessity, such as food, gas, etc.

 

[dank69]

Yep, she's great.. But, what is Congress going to do to stop the corporate raping of our wallets? Because right now, the corporations are giving us the middle finger, and there isn't really anything we can do about it. I know people will say "stop buying their product, stop supporting them", but that isn't possible when a lot of the products are a necessity, such as food, gas, etc.

Can't do anything without enough Democrats to kill the filibuster. This is one of the issues Dems need to hammer in political ads the next few weeks. Show the roll call where Republicans voted against the bill to address this.

 

[Fenixgoon]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1582475617723113472

one of the few good legislators

Damn she is good

 

[soundforbjt]

Damn she is good

My current favorite.

 

[Homerboy]

Can't do anything without enough Democrats to kill the filibuster. This is one of the issues Dems need to hammer in political ads the next few weeks. Show the roll call where Republicans voted against the bill to address this.

Narrator: They won't.

 

[soundforbjt]

Narrator: They won't.

I wish the Dems were as good at messaging as the republicans are, just not the lying and half truths they do.

 

[Homerboy]

I wish the Dems were as good at messaging as the republicans are, just not the lying and half truths they do.

Yeap. The difference is amazing. Though I guess when you lie and cheat, it's easy to be more affective overall. Sadly, the truth is "boring" to most people.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I wish the Dems were as good at messaging as the republicans are, just not the lying and half truths they do.

It is a lot harder to do good messaging when your messages have to be at least somewhat true.
Republicans are good at messaging because they invent the things that they want to message based on the results they want. They don't need to explain complex issues to people for them to understand because their messages just hijack things people already think they know.
Instead of telling people that climate change is a difficult problems and we are all going to have to accept some serious limitations to fix it, their message is that everything is going to be okay, no need to worry.

 

[Pens1566]

Republican messaging is just spouting whatever thought pops into their lizard brain.

 

[vi edit]

It is a lot harder to do good messaging when your messages have to be at least somewhat true.
Republicans are good at messaging because they invent the things that they want to message based on the results they want. They don't need to explain complex issues to people for them to understand because their messages just hijack things people already think they know.
Instead of telling people that climate change is a difficult problems and we are all going to have to accept some serious limitations to fix it, their message is that everything is going to be okay, no need to worry.

Yeah unfortunately actually governing is hard. And not something you can distill down into bumper sticker size sound bites.

Hell even "Let's go Dark Brandon!" has one too many words and doesn't roll off the tongue as well.

 

[Captante]

You forget to assume the /s in many of Moonie's posts. Divining the true nature can lead to a snipe hunt.

It would be more productive to spend time hitting yourself in the head with a mallet then trying to figure out that pea-brain's posts.... talk about a waste of one's day lol.

"Ignoring" him here was one of the best online-decisions I've ever made.

 

[SMOGZINN]

It would be more productive to spend time hitting yourself in the head with a mallet then trying to figure out that pea-brain's posts.... talk about a waste of one's day lol.

"Ignoring" him here was one of the best online-decisions I've ever made.

Ah, Monnie is not so bad. You have to take most of what he says firmly tongue in cheek. For the rest you have to remember that his every argument, no matter what the subject matter, starts with the premise that all human action is caused by self loathing, and leads to that as the conclusion as well. What that means is that you can safely read the first and last sentence of anything he writes and get his entire argument as every step in-between is just rhetorical masturbation.