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Post by priestling on Oct 7, 2011 15:31:51 GMT -5
I've always wondered about that discrepancy... McD's is a good example of this... a big mac around here? $3.60. A (admittedly rather tasty) salad? $4.80
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Post by ltfred on Oct 7, 2011 16:03:32 GMT -5
I'm also really wondering about the point of all this. I mean...I've got money tied up in stocks. I have a trust fund. A trust fund made up of five years worth of social security death benefits because my mom died when I was 13. It is how I pay for college. If, for instance, there was a riot on Wall Street or the Anonymous took out the stock exchange, I would be about a hundred times more fucked in the ass than the rich fuckers they're pissed off at. Well only a person in blind anger would call for dismantling certain companies. The goal here is to make the companies yield and to make sure they don't get try to "pass the savings on to you". The entire financial sector should be nationalised for a few years. In the long run, 99% of people would be better off, in higher wages and more employment, lower loans and better health insurance. Almost nobody holds any large amount of shares- they're very muh concentrated in the hands of a minority. Therefore, if you reduce the profits to be made through gambling in order to increase the wages to be made through real work. |
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Post by Meshakhad on Oct 7, 2011 16:07:52 GMT -5
Part of me thinks we should outright ban futures trading. More because it can destabilize the economy than anything else.
As for the movement, I'm kinda hoping it becomes a left-wing counterweight to the Tea Party.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 7, 2011 16:29:12 GMT -5
Only, ya know...fucking sane. You can be angry, anger is more than acceptable given the circumstances, but don't go full-blown Teatarded.
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Post by scotsgit on Oct 7, 2011 18:18:14 GMT -5
Well only a person in blind anger would call for dismantling certain companies. The goal here is to make the companies yield and to make sure they don't get try to "pass the savings on to you". The entire financial sector should be nationalised for a few years. If I had my way, not only would it be nationalised, the people who work in should be conscripted and paid the same as an infantryman is. Let them earn their promotions the old fashioned way. |
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Post by ltfred on Oct 8, 2011 3:22:26 GMT -5
The entire financial sector should be nationalised for a few years. If I had my way, not only would it be nationalised, the people who work in should be conscripted and paid the same as an infantryman is. Let them earn their promotions the old fashioned way. I think that lawyers should be legally obliged to serve as a public defendent for a few years after breaking the bar. And doctors and teachers should have their degree paid for by the government like soldiers do. (I don't think banks should be permenantly nationalised, mind- just until the government has reorganised and recapitalised all banks and fired every bank employee above a low management rank) |
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Oct 8, 2011 4:44:21 GMT -5
Part of me thinks we should outright ban futures trading. More because it can destabilize the economy than anything else. As for the movement, I'm kinda hoping it becomes a left-wing counterweight to the Tea Party. I wouldn't ban it outright, however I would severely limit it to those who use it as a form of insurance, and in a reasonably limited quantity. Namely, for instance, grain futures to grain farmers, limited to 2000 bushels per cycle or something like that. This I believe used to be the case until the current cycle of deregulation allowed huge conglomorates to fuck with the price of commodities for profit. |
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