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Definitely! Union membership is in decline and so are wages. The boomer generation seems to think the government is the largest negative impact on our lives when it's actually the corporate suits.

You an FPV guy or a cinematic guy?

Costco's whole thing is that they have a flat markup on all their goods. It's static - price goes down for them, they lower their retail.

They also pay a reasonable wage - my buddy works there and is clearing 31.50/hr + voluntary OT + 6k bonus/yr. Regularly makes 80k a year, just floor staff not management/supervisor.

And they pay their upstream and logistics providers 2-3x market rates as well- my girlfriend works for a major trucking company doing pricing and Costco voluntarily overpays for their lanes so they have more reliable deliveries.

Many many companies price-gouge and underpay their employees or steal wages. Costco doesn't. Fuck Walmart, Safeway, Amazon, etc.

Thanks, I know how to use markdown, I just can't get my lemmy client to upload an image to my instance to get the URL to begin with.

Pretty sure the headline was changed by USA Today, based on the page title. Once I figure out how to include an image I'll add it, but I think when the OP posted this, that was the headline.

There's also just a fundamental problem with planned economies from a purely economic standpoint: they are much less efficient at actually providing the minimum set of goods and services required by a population, and they're worse at achieving growth. See the most recent Nobel Prize in economics for a citation. Funnily enough, the same paper's arguments apply equally to oligarchic economies and crony capitalist economies, which are semi-planned economies by a small group of the ultra wealthy.

More specifically to the OP, communist countries have planned economies, which by nature requires a strong authority to tightly control production. Hence why communist states always have very consolidated political power structures. And once the power is consolidated, all it takes is one bad actor to get that power and ruin everything.

Wow that's an aggressive reply, assuming I'm just dismissive as opposed to unaware.

The answer is that I am unaware - I haven't seen these articles you're discussing.

My buddy's dad with terminal cancer had to go through a hell of a process to get approved for MAD. I haven't heard of people being railroaded into it here.

This has also been my personal experience with their brand.

If I'm shopping in a new space where I can't find a clear winner in reviews, I consider Anker to be the safe bet for a good product. Let's hope they never logitech themselves.

Whether it's divisive or not really depends on your perspective and reasoning.

"What voters did we fail to capture, and why?" is a very valuable question to be asking. "Who can we blame?" is not. This article would help answer both of these.

A family of 4 on 140k combined income would indeed be kind of tight, especially depending on where.