Late Cycle Capitalism

[SuburbanFarmer]

Has more to do with how stingy and shitty they were to their customers for years when they had little competition. Then when places like Jersey Mikes went national, Subway had no brand loyalty to speak of.

Can I get some bread with maybe two thin as fuck slices of turkey and a pound of lettuce, please? That's what you will serve me anyway, so fuck it.

This. And their 'meat' hasn't tasted like meat for decades.

[Okeefenokee]

I miss deli sandwiches from the commissary. Those things were enormous and cheap.

Tax payer funded. You are welcome





Bitch

Commissaries still sell discounted products to authorized patrons as they have since 1825. Today’s customers save thousands of dollars annually on their purchases compared to similar products at commercial retailers. Customers receive substantial additional savings through special sales and coupons. The discounted prices include a 5-percent surcharge, mandated by Congress, which covers the costs of building new commissaries and modernizing existing ones. Patrons thus help pay for their commissaries twice – once as taxpayers and once through the surcharge. Commissary employees’ salaries are tax-funded.

Surveys consistently rate commissaries as one of the military’s top nonpay benefits. Many young service families, particularly those stationed in high cost-of-living urban areas, simply could not make ends meet without the price savings provided by commissaries. Those savings amount to about double the appropriated cost of running the system. In other words, preserving this level of compensation in direct dollar payments to military personnel would cost the government twice the current fund appropriation.
https://www.commissaries.com/our-agency ... ry-history

[TheReal_ND]

I'm not opposed to this symbiotic relationship between the free market and propping up the warrior class.

[Speaker to Animals]

Google engineers refused to make a tool which would win the company military contracts, according to a report.

“Earlier this year, a group of influential software engineers in Google’s cloud division surprised their superiors by refusing to work on a cutting-edge security feature. Known as ‘air gap,’ the technology would have helped Google win sensitive military contracts,” reported Bloomberg. “The coders weren’t persuaded their employer should be using its technological might to help the government wage war, according to four current and former employees.”

Following the protest by employees subsequently known as the Group of Nine, the tool was “postponed,” and the company reduced “the scope of the feature.”

Employee rebellion has become more common at the search giant, and other Silicon Valley companies including Microsoft and Amazon, with several employees leaving Google over their drone contract with the Pentagon.

Employees requested that the company cancel their contract “immediately,” declaring, “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war.”

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/2 ... contracts/

I told you guys this shit was coming.

[Speaker to Animals]

The CEO of a pharmaceutical company is facing criticism for describing a 400 percent price increase of an antibiotic as a "moral requirement."

Nostrum Laboratories, based in Missouri, raised the price of nitrofurantoin last month from $474.74 a bottle to $2,393, according to the Financial Times newspaper. The drug treats urinary tract and bladder infections.

CEO Nirmal Mulye said the price hike was based on market dynamics, according to the newspaper.

“I think it is a moral requirement to make money when you can ... to sell the product for the highest price," he said.

Mulye said the branded version of the drug increased in price to $2,800.

“The point here is the only other choice is the brand at the higher price. It is still a saving regardless of whether it is a big one or not,” he said.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/40 ... equirement


This is the kind of mentality that is going to cause the implosion. There is no "moral requirement" to shaft people because the state granted you a monopoly via a patent.

Indeed, the moral requirement is for Congress to fucking stop this farce of patent laws forthwith so people cannot do this shit.


Also, consider that the merchant cunts who think like this are the ones leading the political class. We are being governed by fucking merchants and it shows.

[Fife]

This *NOT* an example of market failure. It's state failure.

Eliminate all state-granted IP monopolies. IP really is about the most gross example of the Hamiltonians dry fucking our country asses.

[Speaker to Animals]

I didn't call it a market failure.

I called it total merchant cuntery, and it is.

People like this infect the GOP and DNC alike. This idea that "we have a moral obligation to generate as much profit as possible" is fucking sick.

[Fife]

All monopolies are granted by the state, and enforced by the state.

The solution is rather obvious, eh?

[DBTrek]

Fife hates roads.
StA hates merchants.

Where can we send them where they won’t be bedeviled by asphalt and commerce?
That utopia has to exist somewhere.

[Speaker to Animals]

I have contempt for the merchant class and their values, not really hate. Though I do hate merchant values injected into the ruling class. Merchants have no business in government, really. There are exceptions, but as a general rule, merchants lack virtue, especially honor and integrity.

There is a reason every true aristocracy in history held contempt for merchants. It's not some coincidence.

Deep down we all know they are naturally traitors. They'd sell you down the river if it profits them and they can get away with it.

You can see the truth I what I say in this man's own words. He sees profit as much as he can get away with as the highest moral imperative.

These people are incapable of governing nations. They need to be driven out of both parties.