Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions

Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by BatFastard on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:21AM (#14970001)

But the bottom 90% do the labor that earns that top 1% all the money.

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by madengr on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:44PM (#14971038)

But the top 1% provide the jobs. Unless the bottom 90% collectively strike, or you "nationalize" everything (that works really well /s), what ya gonna do about it?

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by BatFastard on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:20PM (#14976055)

Do they really "provide the jobs" the companies they own provide them. VERY few of those people are critical to the companies they own.

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by madengr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:37AM (#14978641)

I agree, at least once the company is well established, but they do own them. If you nationalize them, or somehow make it so the company "serves the greater good", rather than the interests of it's owners, the results are disasterous. It's playing out in Venezuela now.

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by pixl97 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:32PM (#14971570)

Until AI and robots start doing it, then you'll have to worry about the fate of the bottom

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Re:Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions by BatFastard on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:25AM (#14976342)

If we wait that long there will be rioting in the streets around the world. Better to consider things ahead of time

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