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To understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation…

August 15, 2019 By jamesb

A New York Times piece that looks at capitalism and workers rights and the idea of slavery.... A couple of years before he was convicted of securities fraud, Martin Shkreli was the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company that acquired the rights to Daraprim, a lifesaving … [Read more...] about To understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation…

Filed Under: Government, Law, Politics, the Economy Tagged With: American Economic growth, American Economics, Banks, Capitalism, mortgages, Profits, Slavery, The South, Unions

Amazon to stop warehousing certain things they don’t make enough money on….

December 16, 2018 By jamesb

...from Axios.... Amazon has trained us "to buy everything from major appliances to daily staples online. Now it is having second thoughts about some of those sales because they don’t make money," according to The Wall Street Journal's Laura Stevens, Sharon Terlep and Annie … [Read more...] about Amazon to stop warehousing certain things they don’t make enough money on….

Filed Under: Other Things Tagged With: Amazon, CRaP/Can’t Realize a Profit, Online Retail, Profits, Warehousing

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