So you're gonna break up all the monopolies and duopolies in this country? Maybe take away production and give a bunch of start-up capital to the workers? We have an app and call it a 'tech start-up' would that help?
No? You're just gonna post about it like you are some regular schmuck? Ok.
Throwback to when he tweeted about gas prices and asked companies to lower them
And when Mayo Pete was complaining about air travel
While both were formally occupying their current offices
This is relates to the noises he's making about banning non-compete clauses. He's threatening to do something good. The question is if he will. I give it a 20% chance.
So a big nothing? Most non-compete clauses have been shown over and over to be unenforceable in court, unless they are adequately compensated during the period where they cannot work. They're not illegal, but they basically never hold up.
Throwback to Elizabeth Warren's campaign merch from 2020
https://2020.elizabethwarren.com/toolkit/cross-stitch
I love how they admit that capitalism is just theft + rules
Big Structural Bailey! Big Structural Bailey! Big Structural Bailey!
I wonder where BSB is now…. Landfill? Enormous warehouse from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark? In front of a vape store in a dingy first ring suburban strip mall?
Damn, I wish I knew who the president was, Jack, I'd like to have a word with him :biden-alert:
Reminder that while its possible Biden may actually genuinely believe this sentiment: you should never forget that actual real life successful capitalists recognize its fucking bullshit. I always recommend people to read Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" because, unlike Ben Shapiro or other conservative writers, Thiel's livelihood isn't built on preaching to the choir and selling capitalism to the masses and it actually gives genuine insight into how people like him think.
One of the more revealing things he talks about is the fact that actually capitalism inherently bends towards monopoly and actually hates competition, because if this perfectly balanced system of competition they preach about actually existed there could never be any actual profit or surplus value generated.
The rich know this. They operate on this knowledge. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a rube or is somehow being paid by them.
Yeah, the word "competition" implies an ultimate winner. That's what competition is. I'm becoming increasingly and painfully aware that not only are capitalists irrational but insane. And stupid.
i have yet to hear anyone unironically say "real communism has never been tried", yet every other week someone comes out saying that real capitalism has in fact, never been tried
Capitalism
without competition isn't capitalism.
It's exploitationfixed
The usual pivots to the Petty Bourgeoise - factions of capital are divided between "we want big capitalists to have more" and "we want small capitalists to remain capitalists". Both are in agreement that the working class is scum that should at best be appeased for a few years.
But if the capitalist class is disorganized into many small businesses but we're in a few unions, we get more leverage. Look at Workers' United's progress in Philly against indie coffee shops vs their struggles with Sbux
Exploitation should be competitive.
- Joe Biden
