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phoenix00's avatar

1) Blame Wall Street. Corps are currently incentivized to reward shareholders in the next 10-Q more than their own long-term sustainability

2) See 1). Paying workers = looks bad on the balance sheet.

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Jeebus knowledge in the IT industry is a never-ending cycle. Can't keep up.

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It's made-up BS just like every other conservative piece of drivel. Property prices in SF and LA would've crashed if there's an exodus.

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I seem to recall a certain former Secretary-of-State had a similar plan for coal miners, but nooooooooooo

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Serious-but-related note: "The military will pay for higher education" is a HUGE draw for high-schoolers.

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Who would be doing the shredding and dicing?

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The Mexicans. Possibly the Filipinos.

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The power of white skin and a penis.

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Trickle-down economics!

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Let them drink champagne!

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

Oh my gawd, I thought of this EXACT song.

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Bobathonic's avatar

They should show him Star Wars. He'd tweet out "These are not the droids we're looking for".

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schmannity's avatar

People are saying that Fletcher has been involved in many murders. I'm not saying it, but many are, bigly.

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Bobathonic's avatar

But Ming *is* a better leader.

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Nick Scroggs's avatar

OT but for some reason this reminds me of something I've been seeing lately online, claims that conservatives are having an exodus from California to places like Nevada supposedly "fed up with the liberal progressive's mistakes and BS." Which I've never heard of, and I've been here all my life.

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