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A Boring Dystopia

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Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having no actual person guarding your business is a recipe for theft.

From 1977 to 2021, in 2021 inflation-adjusted dollars, state and local government spending on police increased from $47 billion to $135 billion, an increase of 189 percent.

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs

[โ€“] Facebones@reddthat.com 11 points 3 months ago

gestures broadly at the entire us pharmaceutical industry