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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"For months, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the two wealthiest men alive," said Sanders, "have been working overtime to abolish the NLRB. Why is that? These notorious anti-union billionaires want the absolute power to exploit their workers and violate labor law. The lower the wages they pay, the more money they make. Since Election Day, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have become $184 billion richer and are now worth $669 billion. But, apparently, that’s not enough."

At least the robber-barons a century ago had the good taste to pretend to be virtuous by building libraries and starting foundations for the public good. These guys have not a bone in their bodies that tells them to do anything other than acquire more.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I believe this bone theory of yours but it warrants further consideration imo. We should examine their bones more closely in an effort to discover this supposed defect.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think you’re giving too much credit to the robber barons of old. They also were exploitive and considered themselves above the law, perhaps even more than today. Those virtues tended to be after the fact, when they start feeling their mortality, caring about what legacy they leave behind .

Take Bill Gates as a better comparison to robber barons of old . You may be too young to understand just how bad a reputation he had, he could be as cut throat as anyone, and most of his good deeds have been since retirement. Don’t get me wrong, Bill Gates has turned into quite a force for good, but he wasn’t when he ran Microsoft

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I watched the docu (series?) about him a handful of years ago. It made me like him. Then he argued against open-sourcing the covid vax and I've hated him ever since.

I was a die-hard Mac user in the 90s. I hated him then, but I was too young to know much about his business ruthlessness. I did know "embrace, extend, extinguish" in the 2000s. IE completely halted development of the web for a long time. Firefox shook things up. Chrome is the new IE. Le sigh…

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NLRB = National Labor Relations Board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board

Trump loves the working class, in fact he is completely dependent on them.
He loves them so much, he'd prefer if it was cheaper to hire them to wipe his ass and make money for him.

So when Trump says he loves the working class, he is not lying, it's just not the kind of love you'd want. Because what he loves is to exploit them.

No shit. He always has been.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone listening to Bernie Sanders already knows Trump is the enemy of everyone except Donald Trump. He despises everyone as being below him and covets everything anyone has.

[–] bilb@lem.monster -2 points 1 year ago

Uh, Mr. Sanders, did you consider that the working class loves using slurs at work?