Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
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That's not what your article was about.
It was about a business owner who gave his employees $70,000 per year and also cut his own pay to $70,000 per year.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You are trolling me, 6ix. Dan Price raised the minimum wage to $70,000 because he didn't want to be seen as a rich greedy bastard like, and it is in the article, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. And he lowered his own salary because he didn't want to be seen as a greedy bastard like every Republican businessman. But what he did NOT do is give away his corporate shares to his employees. In that way he is following Mark Zuckerberg, who kept all his shares but lowered his salary to $1 per year. $1 is symbolic for Zuckerberg. $70,000 is symbolic for Dan Price. Zuckerberg and Dan Price are making symbolic statements to their employees. If I were to make a symbolic statement it would be to lower my salary to $137,700 -- Social Security's 2020 maximum amount of taxable earnings.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's not what your article was about.
It was about a business owner who gave his employees $70,000 per year and also cut his own pay to $70,000 per year.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
"13 top executives who earn a $1 salary"
www.businessinsider.com/ceos-who-take-1-dollar-salary-or-less-2015-8
"Dan Price had hoped that Gravity's example would lead to far-reaching changes in US business. He's deeply disappointed and sad that this hasn't happened."
www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811
Dan Price should have known that all those good things that happen in Switzerland cannot happen in America because the Swiss are Communists. You can ask any Republican in Congress or business, but don't tell them the Swiss are already doing it for employees, and the Republican will say that what the Swiss are doing is pure Communism. The Republicans will never allow America to change into Switzerland, one of the most Capitalistic countries on Earth.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
If I were to make a symbolic statement it would be to lower my salary to $137,700 -- Social Security's 2020 maximum amount of taxable earnings.
Then do it.
In this fantasy world where you run a multi-million dollar business, you'd have a harder time living off of $137,700 per year than I do off of $7,000.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You have not stop trolling me, 6ix. You have not stopped to acknowledge that American workers are at a serious disadvantage compared to Swiss workers because Switzerland has no GOP crying about Socialism and Communism overpaying Swiss workers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If I were to make a symbolic statement it would be to lower my salary to $137,700 -- Social Security's 2020 maximum amount of taxable earnings.
Then do it.
In this fantasy world where you run a multi-million dollar business, you'd have a harder time living off of $137,700 per year than I do off of $7,000.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The right to strike was enshrined in the Swiss constitution in 1999. Could you imagine how upset the GOP would be if there was talk of adding that right to the US constitution?
www.thelocal.ch/20181019/why-are-strikes-rare-in-switzerland
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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How COVID-19 thrust 325,000 children into or near poverty in NY
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/coronavirus/2020/10/19/how-covid-19-t
hrust-325-000-children-into-near-poverty-ny/3668453001/
Back in 2020 old news story, California governor says 60,000 homeless could be infected by novel coronavirus
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/california-governor-60000-homeless
-could-get-virus
California still trails many states in COVID-19 vaccinations. When will that change?
https://news.yahoo.com/california-still-lags-many-states-173454484.htm
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Some Q-anon channel
Philadelphia at Night - Kensington Avenue
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6VfoodccExqo/
How much coronavirus relief is coming? Here’s what the Senate just passed.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/03/06/how-much-coronavirus-r
elief-is-coming-heres-what-the-senate-just-passed/
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Oligarchs and other wealthy Russians have stashed up to $214 billion in secretive Swiss bank accounts, leading trade group reveals
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-oligarchs-wealthy-stash-billio
ns-dollars-secretive-swiss-bank-accounts-2022-3
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Banker people with chocolate and watches
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Specifically, what’s frustrating me is America’s seeming inability to build the things it needs to build in order to prosper and flourish in the 21st century. From housing to transit to solar power to transmission lines to semiconductor fabs, the U.S. has little trouble marshalling the financial and physical capital to create what it needs, but ends up stymied by entrenched local interests who exploit a thicket of veto points to preserve the built environment of the 1970s.
Ever day, new examples of this stasis pile up. In Berkeley, a plan to build student housing was just blocked by a court, which demanded that the university study whether students themselves constitute an environmental hazard. I wish I were kidding, but I’m not.
The Build-Nothing Country
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-build-nothing-country
Stasis has become America's spoils system, and it can't go on.
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Would Swiss even care if Hollyweird collapsed?
More on Unions, Workers, Guilds and Strikers
Hollywood Writers Go on Strike, Late Night Comedy Shows Including Jimmy Kimmel Hit Hardest
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/01/hollywood-writers-g
o-on-strike-late-night-comedy-shows-including-jimmy-kimmel-hit-hardest/
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Switzerland - A Haven for Russian Money?
https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-a-haven-for-russian-money/a-68783551
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the men behind the curtain?
Drive-In Sex Box
the Hindu Street Shitters don't agree
Why did India refrain from signing Ukraine declaration at peace talks in Switzerland?
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/india-refrains-from-signing-ukr
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