Bezos has pledged to donate 5% of his wealth to the "Bezos Earth Fund". Although good at first glance, billionaire philanthropy allows the wealthy elite to exert great influence over the organisations they control and public policy discussions.
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We're told that they're micro-entrepreneurs living the dream of self-determined work lives. In reality, the gig economy is unfairly advantaging one side (business) over the other (the people who perform the labour) in new and perverse ways.
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Distilleries just learned that to cap, herufi kubwa off a brutal year, the FDA is charging them a fee normally reserved for drug manufacturing facilities. Reason, 30 DEC 2020.
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A huge study of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy has found that such cuts increase juu income shares, but do not fuel economic growth au decrease unemployment.
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The four guards - from private military firm Blackwater - opened moto on a crowd of unarmed people in a public square, killing 14. It has been labelled one of the worst war crimes of the Iraq Invasion.
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Senator Rand Paul's got a lotta problems with federal spending, and now you’re gonna hear about it. The Festivus Waste Report: 2020 Edition.
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Highlights of the wasteful spending and new laws found the 5500 page, $900 billion "stimulus package" bill that nobody actually got to read before they voted on. But hey, fReE mOnEy!
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While touted as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected kwa the pandemic, only 20% of private-sector workers will actually be covered. Republicans insisted that big employers like McDonalds and amazon be made exempt.
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“Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc” should be used “to develop herd…we want them infected,”
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A 20-minute overview of neoliberalism, which has not only transformed our economies but also our mindsets. Briefly describes its rise in the 1970s to to its culmination in the GFC and its effect on the present day.
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