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generalelectionmusings · 10 months
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Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.
President Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural Address on Wednesday, March 4, 1893
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mckinlily · 6 months
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Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.
Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.
He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.
Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.
But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.
Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.
So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?
Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.
Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.
Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.
Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.
Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.
Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.
But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?
Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.
Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.
So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.
Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.
At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.
The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.
Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.
All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.
Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.
But by GOD is he trying.
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easterneyenews · 4 months
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aurianneor · 5 months
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Housing
Why is housing so expensive, whether to buy or rent? Why are people forced to pay when "the right to housing is a human right." With limited financial means, it's hard to find affordable, good-quality housing. (https://www.humanrights.ch/fr/nouvelles/droit-humain-logement)
In the cities, prices have skyrocketed. They have become inaccessible to part of the population. And the countryside is emptying out because there are no public services or means of subsistence (no jobs). (Map of average prices per m² per municipality for house and apartment sales in 2020: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/reuses/carte-des-prix-moyens-au-m2-par-commune-des-ventes-de-maisons-et-dappartements-en-2020/) Yet property owners and sellers don't produce wealth. They collect it from others. Employers have to raise wages to keep up with housing costs. In order to pay, employees have to cut back on other expenses , even though they are the ones producing the wealth. The number of meals served at the "restos du coeur" is exploding, as are requests for social housing.
The state's response is to pay ever more to build housing, and governments all over the world are defiscalising housing production to implore homeowners to build more. These owners are the ones who pay the lowest taxes. Real estate is the goose that lays the golden egg for property owners, and a financial drain on the rest of us, who pay twice. What's more, as people are forced to live further and further away from their place of work, this creates fatigue and pollution, as well as additional costs due to fuel prices. And in exchange, people are living in housing that is in poor condition, too small and built of concrete with no soundproofing. These buildings are rapidly falling into disrepair and they pollute. They're not built for the well-being of living, but to maximize profits.
In the same way as in the food sector, we need to stop subsidizing local residents so that they can then pay the subsidies directly to the owners. That's like giving public money to landlords! We need to control prices to house people. In the 70s, in the West, people paid off their homes in 10 years. We also need to restore efficient public services throughout the country: roads, hospitals, police, swimming pools, schools and so on. Last but not least, there must be farmers in the countryside. Before the Second World War, 40% of the population worked on farms. We need to stop using machines and chemicals to compensate for labor that could be used in the fields. We need fair purchase prices for farmers using organic permaculture. In all industrialized countries, farmers employ illegal immigrants under very poor conditions in order to cope.
We need a universal basic income. Today, without work there is no sustenance and no dignity. We have regulations that create "bullshit jobs", as David Graeber puts it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs). People are forced to live in the city. Instead, we need people in the countryside to create healthy food, which is also a human right (https://www.humanrights.ch/fr/pfi/fondamentaux/en-bref/couverture-minimum-vital/droit-a-lalimentation/). In wartime, when the men were soldiers, the country ran on the labor of women and the elderly. With robotization, there's even less need for manpower. (In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Other_Essays). We need to redistribute wealth instead of concentrating it in the hands of the richest.
Le combat d’une lanceuse d’alerte contre les dérives de la défiscalisation locative - Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2019/02/12/le-combat-d-une-lanceuse-d-alerte-contre-les-derives-de-la-defiscalisation-locative_5422456_1653578.html
Crise du logement - Le Devoir: https://www.ledevoir.com/crise-du-logement
POINT DE VUE. « L’avenir des villes dépend de plus en plus de l’avenir des campagnes »- Ouest France: https://www.ouest-france.fr/reflexion/point-de-vue/point-de-vue-lavenir-des-villes-depend-de-plus-en-plus-de-lavenir-des-campagnes-5f7cff50-7d93-11ee-9e40-5131acac1bc0
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4-day workweek: https://www.aurianneor.org/4-day-workweek-2/
Le goût et la santé: https://www.aurianneor.org/le-gout-et-la-sante-savoir-lire-les-etiquettes/
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”: https://www.aurianneor.org/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-hire-smart-people-and/
“I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”: https://www.aurianneor.org/i-once-calculated-that-i-did-about-one-thousand/
Basic Income is possible: https://www.aurianneor.org/basic-income-is-possible-the-instrument-of/
I moved out: https://www.aurianneor.org/i-moved-out/
Stop the all-concrete approach: https://www.aurianneor.org/stop-the-all-concrete-approach/
Fair trade and organic farming: https://www.aurianneor.org/fair-trade-and-organic-farming/
Ecoterrorism: https://www.aurianneor.org/ecoterrorism/
How can we win back trust?: https://www.aurianneor.org/how-can-we-win-back-trust/
Freedom and coexistence: https://www.aurianneor.org/freedom-and-coexistence/
Humiliated by the Republic: https://www.aurianneor.org/humiliated-by-the-republic/
Restricting personal wealth: https://www.aurianneor.org/restricting-personal-wealth/
Cut out the middleman: https://www.aurianneor.org/cut-out-the-middleman/
Organic mass production has no future: https://www.aurianneor.org/organic-mass-production-has-no-future/
Isolation phonique: https://www.aurianneor.org/isolation-phonique-le-silence-est-dor-et-comme/
Rob the poor to feed the rich: https://www.aurianneor.org/rob-the-poor-to-feed-the-rich/
Le logement: https://www.aurianneor.org/le-logement/
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willorng · 6 months
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#ModernMoneyManga
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 10 months
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"REBATE CHEQUES TO BE MAILED OUT VERY SOON," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 20, 1933. Page 2. ---- Commissioner McFarlane Strongly Protested Against Grant --- The rebate cheques for the electrical consumers will be mailed from the office of the Public Utilities Comimission at once. This was the decision reached at a meeting of the commission held on Monday after-noon.
It will be recalled that the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, a few weeks ago, sanctioned a rebate of 10 per cent. of the amount paid during 1932, following a motion in favor of the rebate, which was sponsored by Commissioner James Halliday and seconded by Mayor Bruce Hopkins. The total amount of the rebate will be in the neighborhood of $25,000.
It was reported at the meeting that the rebate cheques were ready to be sent out to the consumers, and on motion of Commissioner Halliday, seconded by Commissioner Harris, it was decided to have them sent out at once.
In an endeavor to alleviate the unemployment situation, Commissioner Halliday asked the commission to undertake all the extension work possible. Commissioner Halliday asked particularly that the underground extension work be undertaken from Queen's power plant on King Street West to the city limits, and that efforts be made to the end that this work will not cost the city extra for street lighting. Mr. Halliday said that he felt that the Commission should do everything possible to create work for the unemployed.
Manager Folger will present a report to the commission in regard to extension work that can be undertaken.
The chairman, John P. Sowards, presided at the meeting, and also present were James Halliday, R. N. F.McFarlane, James Harris and Manager C. C. Folger. Mayor Hopkins was out of the city on business, and unable to be present.
Manager Folger stated that he was working on a report dealing with the arrears in accounts. This report will be ready in the course of the next few days, and it was decided to hold a special meeting on Monday next to deal with it. Following this meeting, it is expected that the commissionwill adjourn for the summer holidays.
With a strong protest from Commissioner McFarlane, the commission, on motion of Commissioner Halliday, voted the sum of $50 for "advertising purposes" to the Electrical Contractors' Association of Ontario, meeting in Kingston on June 29 and 30.
Commissioner Halliday said he felt that the commission should make a grant to this convention and he was warmly supported by Commissioner Harris. It is expected that the convention will bring about 400 visitors to the city, and Mr. Harris said that it would mean that money would be spent in the city, and that the commission should encourage such conventions by making a grant.
"I am not in favor of spending the money of the people in this way," said Mr. McFarlane. "It is illegal to vote money for this purpose, and I am not in favor of the proposition and will not vote for it."
Mr. McFarlane recorded his vote against the motion sponsored by Mr. Halliday, who had the support of Mr.Harris, and the motion was declared carried. Mr. McFarlane held that the vote was illegal, pointing cut that there were five members of the commission and that only two members had voted in favor of the motion.
Mayor Hopkins being absent from the meeting, however, did not have an opportunity to vote, and as there was no tie, the chairman was not called upon to cast his vote.
Commissioner Harris drew attention to the fact that the City Council it a recent meeting had voted the sum of $50 for the Corporation to take out one page in the official program for the Orange celebration to be held in Kingston on July 12. He felt the commission was justified in making this grant to the electrical convention. "The motion has not been carried legally, but has just been railroaded through," remarked Mr. McFarlane, after the vote had been taken on Mr. Halliday's motion.
On the recommendation of Manager Folger the commission decided to purchase a set of fireproof filing trays for the housing of the ledger records from Hanson and Edgar for the sum of $126. The filing trays are similar to those used in practically all the offices of the Public Utilities all over Ontario. The question of the purchase of a stoker which has been under consideration for some time was further laid over in order to secure additional information.
Theft of Lanterns Manager Folger brought to the attention of the members of the commission the theft of a number of red lanterns placed for the protection of the public on the excavation jobs around the city. Mr. Folger said that just recently four lanterns had been stolen from an excavation in front of Tete de Pont Barracks and that last year seven lanterns had been stolen. He pointed out that as these lanterns were placed on excavation work for the protection of the public was a serious matter. As a result of the thefts special nightwatchmen had to be hired. The members of the commission decided that it was a case for the police to investigate, and the matter will be reported to the police, in an endeavor to run down the guilty party or parties, and to avoid future trouble.
The commission decided to extend its power line on the south side of Highway No. 2, so as to provide a service for the military camp known as Project No. 47. The matter of the purchase of cable and a carload of fire brick was referred to Manager Folger.
An application for electrical power was received from six householders residing on a roadway beyond the Outer Station, will be referred to the Ontario Hydro Electric Commission.
On the recommendation of Manager Folger the commission appointed A. D. Nelson, accountant and Oscar J. Cherry, chief electrician, as delegates to the sessions of the Ontario Electrical Municipal Association to be held shortly at Windsor.
The commission received an application from Dr. N. E. Berry for gas, water and sewer services for Queen's Crescent from Lower Albert to Collingwood Street. Dr. Berry will be advised to place his request before the City Council.
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chawsl · 11 months
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prussianmemes · 8 months
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arguing with a friend over not all zoomers abandoning normal wallets. i love my george costanza oversized dad wallet. how could you not love a pocket office...
let me hear your wisdom in notes!!!
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comicsmithy · 1 year
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Crazy.
The opposite of functional and good.
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Jive No.1: Chandrababu is happy with the Supreme Court verdict
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National President of Telugu Desam Party, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, expressed happiness over the Supreme Court's statement that it cannot interfere in Jiveo No.1. He questioned why the AP government is going to the Supreme Court when the trial is supposed to be held in the High Court. They criticized that they are wasting public money with wrong decisions. Even now, the state government has realized its mistake and demanded to withdraw Jivo No.1 immediately.
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bet-on-me-13 · 5 months
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Ellie isn't allowed to travel alone Anymore
So! Ellie was raised in a Lab by a Genuine Bonefied Supervillain. She was raised to be a Villain as well, so her Moral Conpass is a little skewed.
Sure she *mostly* knows what is right and wrong from Danny's quick lesson before her Adventure around the Country, but she still has trouble separating what is moral and what is not from time to time.
So it's really no surprise that the moment she left Amity Park she somehow ended up being branded a Villain.
Look, it's not her fault she didn't know not to attack the flying guy in Blue Spandex when he approached her! One of Danny's biggest warnings shen she left had been Stranger Danger! She did what any 12 year old girl would have done when approached by a strange Older Man!
Its also not her fault that her powers (being Magic based), managed to affect him! She didn't even use her full power! (She maybe should have kicked him in a different place tho...she hopes he wasn't planning on having kids...)
So she did what her instincts told her to do. She took any money he had on him and ran the hell away!
It wasn't until she was 2 cities over when she saw a newspaper titled, "Little Villain Girl Mugs Superman in Broad Daylight!", that she realized she may have screwed up...
After that, she really had no excuse.
She knew that she probably shouldn't have kept Mugging the Heroes who approached her, but she wasn't a Fenton for nothing! Her Family Motto had always been "Commit to the Bit", and she was gonna stick to it!
So when the Fast Red Guy tried to tie her up, she phased off all his clothes and took off with his money (not the mask, she knew enough not to take that off)
And when the Grumpy Bat Guy tried to corner her with some weird papers he pulled out of his Belt, she just distracted him while her clone picked his pockets and made off with the wheels of his Car. That one made her a pretty penny!
The flying Green Guy was fun, his attacks were just throwing Ghost Candy (pure willpower) at her. He did stop doing do after she nicked his fancy talking Ring however, but it was fun while it lasted
Then she came across a Orange Fish Guy, and he actually seemed nice enough. But she was committing to the Bit, so she took the fancy Trident he had and sold it at a nearby Pawn Shop for some extra cash. He would probably be able to find it, that's why she chose a nearby location.
All in All, her Adventure had been really fun! So she decided to visit Amity Park again to tell Danny all about it!
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Aquaman walked into the meeting room of the Watchtower, a very frustrated look in his eye.
Barry spoke up first, "Oh! I know that look in your eye! She got to you too didn't she!"
Arthur just glared at Barry for a second before walking over to his Chair, sitting down with a thump. "She is certainly a tricky child."
"What did she take this time?" Clark asked.
"..mttrident..." Arthur grumbled out quickly.
"What was that?" Asked Barry with a twinkle in his eye. He heard it, but he wanted everybody else to know.
"She took my trident, Okay!" Arthur shouted out.
"I feel ya man." Responded Hal, "At least with me she threw it back at me when she realized it wasn't making 'candy' anymore. What did she do with yours?"
"She sold it at a Pawn Shop!" Arthus yelled in frustration, "She managed to steal one of the most Powerful Magical Weapons in the world, the Symbol of the entire Atalantean Royal Bloodline, and she sold it and a Pawn Shop!"
"...how much did she get for it?" Asked Hal.
At this, Aquaman just collapsed to the table and groaned.
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Alternatively she could have just kept all those things, and gradually built up a collection of all the JLA's most treasured possessions.
She has Supermans Wallet, not very important to him but it was her first mugging
She has Batmans Utility Belt (trackers removed) along with his Tires
She took Flashes Costume Ring (his civilian clothes still stuck inside)
She took Green Lanterns ring as well, but unfortunately it managed to escape after a few days. It was feisty.
And her crowning Jewel is the Trident she took from Aquaman.
(She avoided WW, cause she likes her too much to steal anything from her)
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laststandx3 · 1 month
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When Jesus pretended to be dead for 3 days it's a miracle and everyone is sympathetic. But when I, James Somerton-
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feather-bone · 7 months
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This is the devil’s hole pupfish! A tiny species that lives only in One water-filled limestone cavern in Nevada. It was one of the first animals on the endangered species list. At the last count in 2022 there were 263 pupfish observed - the most in 19 years! They’re tracked pretty carefully, as their 215 square foot habitat (the smallest of any know vertebrate) is fragile and has been disturbed in the past by groundwater extraction and other human interference.
[ID: an illustration of a shiny metallic blue fish, the male devil’s hole pupfish, facing to the right. It is on a lighter blue background with a ripple pattern. End.] l
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bismuth-soup · 7 months
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Thighs look big in this pic
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ravenmoodle · 5 months
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The Lords In BLACK
I like to 'stain' them with shadow, I think it adds to the spook.
Anyway, I probably wont be doing much more of them, and idk if I'll do the other two for while- but I did stick a poll up on Ratreon for which of the last two I should design next when I do
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