If this keeps up…
The Last Two Workers in the U.S.
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Why would any of you progressive leftists want a job, especially from an evil corporation (partnerships and sole proprietorship are ok?)? After all corporations are only interested in making you their slave. So I’d say you leftists got what you wished for. You can freeload off your fellow taxpayers for 99 weeks and watch The View, continue higher education for another 5 years getting your associate’s degree or whatever it is people do when they aren’t productive.
Yes it is good to know we can count on the hard working right to do all the important work. Like sit on various blogs all day everyday and regurgitate the propaganda they absorb during the Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck breaks they take when they are exhausted from their regurgitating. I sure don’t know what the business you claim to own does US 395, but I sure wish my job were that cushy.
US 395, I am self -employed, an employer, and liberal. What’s your freakin’ point?
someone,
You are aware that the times posted on here are Eastern right? It was 7:09 AM when I made my first post. It’s now lunch time.
Liebchen, US 395 is a troll, he has no point except to cause mayhem. I really shouldn’t feed the troll, but I can’t help it. Especially since the asshole is stalking my Myspace account I haven’t looked at in years. (Yes it took me 5 years to get my AA degree, so fucking what?)
Ironically, the good or service she wants to sell is firing people, and the cycle continues.
The real problem is absentee ownership. Owning stock is a form of absentee ownership. It doesn’t matter to the vast majority of people who own Haliburton stock what Haliburton does, as long as their stock either goes up in value, provides dividends, or both. Thus there is no responsibility to the absentee owner for the destruction brought about for them to get money.
Thus, we end up with a situation where companies wreck themselves so that their quarterly statements please the almighty shareholder.
Indeed, US 395 is a troll. What else is new?
The problem right now is not absentee ownership. A company is not going to self destroy itself. The problem we have now is the government is taking over entire sectors of the economy. Businesses are not hiring because of the health bill passed that nobody read and we are just now finding out what a disaster it is. Nobody knows what the tax rates in January are going to be.
Aggie,
In spite of the inane lingo (absentee ownership has a precise definition outside leftist circles, and not necessarily socially harmful), you have a point about anonymous societies isolating the partners from the actual responsibilities and obligations entailed by them. May I remind you though, that state-run enterprises are the most “efficient” way to push those responsibilities far, far away.
I think the first L in LLC is part of the problem. If I invest in Aggie’s company, and Aggies company’s locked seeds pollute the genetics of the world wheat supply, I am only liable for my initial investment if and when world courts ever reign him in. In the meantime, I will reap any rewards that I am due as per the terms of the investment. No one can come after me as a co-conspirator. If I felt that were a possibility, I would not have invested in the first place. I would be a much much more timid investor. That is why limited liability is so important. Without it, the corporation could not act like a monster.
Bucephalus….I agree completely with you, what’s the point?
Oleg,
If you were a co-conspirator, you are not personally protected with an LLC or corporate legal entity.
every investor is a co-conspirator. The conspiracy is as follows:
Here’s my investment. Now go get me a return on my investment.
Then we can be sure that the only question anyone down the chain in ‘how?’ and never ‘why?’. The why question has been taken care of: ROI
So the biology wiz who figures out how to lock the seeds needs only to focus on, as Albert Speer put it, “just getting the job done.”