I would suggest that when someone who Spotify gives $250 million to says something racist, a lot of people agree with him. And when he says something racist in support of Trump, that helps Trump and other racists.
Edit: The Majority Report covered it and showed exactly how racist the whole conversation was to multiple groups, but you have to be willing to sit through them repeatedly pausing the video and talking, which is their thing. Not sure of another source.
Capitalism is starting to feel like a massive piss-take. You’ve got corps laughing all the way to the bank with billions in profits feeding their employees with fucking potatoes.
It has multiple times, housing bubble, dot com bubble, soon the used car bubble, then it’ll be another housing bubble with apartments etc… Capitalism has such a stranglehold on the world that it’s going to take a very long time for it to change enough to be called something else that actually works
I expect nothing will happen right through the crops failing, famines, mass migrations, wet bulb heat waves, ecological collapse… Nothing good anyway… Most likely fascist police state; probably sooner than later.
The divide will keep growing until people start to get hungry.
We’ve already proven time and time again that the worst they’re going to get out of us for anything they do is harsh words and disapproval. And since they know the worst we can do is complain they’re going to keep doing it.
There won’t be any legislation or policy charges to help us.
When we can’t eat and can’t feed our children we’ll finally have to motivation to make the changes ourselves.
the dearth of people in this thread who can identify it as such is sad evidence of a lack of media literacy.
edit: i can’t reply to @kescusay because i deleted this post from lemmy.ml, but, i see they replied:
It’s the Independent, not spam. Indy100 is part of the Independent.
so, ok, I looked, and yeah, I see this “indy100” site is indeed part of a business called “The Independent” which carries the name of a former newspaper.
But this story, like most of the content on indy100, appears to have no basis in reality. It is not “news”, it is dishonest garbage pretending to be factual for the purpose of selling the audience’s attention to advertisers. aka spam.
Here is a little something from the IRS pub 525 about bonuses.
Bonuses and awards. Bonuses or awards you receive for outstanding work are included in your income and should be shown on your Form W-2. These include prizes such as vacation trips for meeting sales goals. If the prize or award you receive is goods or services, you must include the FMV of the goods or services in your income. However, if your employer merely promises to pay you a bonus or award at some future time, it isn’t taxable until you receive it or it’s made available to you.
So do they really believe the fair market value of a potato is $12? The IRS doesn’t go by retail price.
The FMV for a pound of russet potatoes is $2.50 soo yeah no they are doing too much and should be reported.
Meals and lodging
You don’t include in your income the value of meals and lodging provided to you and your family by your employer at no charge if the following conditions are met.
The meals are: Furnished on the business premises of your employer, and Furnished for the convenience of your employer.
A baked potato was $25 at the strip club I used to frequent, but for that you got two strippers bringing it to you while playing a rather amusing game of hot potato.
It’s a “potato bar” not just a potatoes to presumably that price is intended to include all the bacon, cheese, etc.
Really though it’s probably just whatever the hotel cafeteria charges for potato because that’s a lot easier than coming up with a new price and then justifying it in case of an audit.
I believe they have to be doing something shady, there is no way in hell that would cost$15 per person. Even a nice potato bar is $11 per person according to Google. I’m not an expert in business finance but I know bulk means less cost.
If it’s a potato feast as lunch, it’s not taxable and if they still deduct it, it’s wage theft.
So, get your Christmas bonus by suing your employer, then get the actual bonus by leaving and getting a less toxic employer. Don’t forget to roast them harder than the potato on Glassdoor as you’re leaving.
Did that article have blank templates to fill in tweets? It seemed like there was a quota of tweets the author had to fill in the spaces for and missed one.
If I refresh, I briefly see that, then the tweet loads in. There was either a temporary error, or you’re blocking embedded tweets (which is probably wise).
Yes, and strike. Force the pigs that though this was a good idea to shell out hundred a month per employee in better wages. And call it “the potato raises” to drive this home.
It is appealing and their upper management should be ashamed.
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