May 25
“The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good,” Leo wrote.
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“The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good,” Leo wrote.
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;
and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
Audrey Hepburn.
On true Beauty (for my dear Friend @buckhead1111 ).
MeidasTouch shows clips of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Arizona in front of a HUGE crowd.
Dr. Alexander has agreed to accept both measures of the New Utopian project. He will become a kind of genetic chimera, host to all the minds of Rapture, accessing their talents and memories via the ADAM we have gathered. And, deriving in part from project W-Y-K, I have developed a new set of behavioral constraints; Dr. Alexander will live to promote the common good… his love and loyalty shall be spread evenly across the entire human race. For me, that is discipline, at great personal cost. For him, at last… it will be instinct.
"I had to take a relatively high level statistics course in college and one of three things the professor spent time doing was showing us how statistics could be manipulated to show whatever they wanted. Not so we could do it, but so we could spot it. That is what big pharma, defense contractors, politicians, surveys, medical groups, and many others do. Then they wonder why members of the public don't trust them."
- M.D.
“Elon Musk says he doesn’t like unions because they create a lords-versus-peasants mentality,” Gould said. “It certainly seems that Musk is trying to hold down the peasants here.”
William B Gould IV quoted in an article by Steven Greenhouse in The Guardian. Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’
Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board
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The 'Garchs do seem rather strident these days. I know the tenor at my workplace has changed for the worse. "NON-NEGOTIABLE" in shouty text leading off a mass email stuck out, and while I haven't seen it written anywhere yet, we've all heard "the gloves are off!"
I work at one of the firms the Insitute for Policy Studies calls the Low-wage 100 which includes the S&P 500 companies with the lowest median workere pay. MAGA is big where I live, so I was heartened that the gist of this article: Low-Wage Corporations Have Poured $341 Billion Into Stock Buybacks Since 2020: Report being talked about at work.
I doubt many of my co-workers read Common Dreams, so it's encouraging that the news got out. I hae to hand it to Robert Reich whose earnest efforts to help us to understand the politics and economics of the day have reach.