The last time I recall Billionaires getting unemployment is Covid. 2008. Even the Silicon valley bank collapse Biden bailed out the banks that didn’t pay into the fdic.

Because we can’t allow rich people to lose money, apparently. Better to tax working people, while the rich pay lower rates if not nothing, and use that money to subsidize the rich’s business and bail them out from crashing markets.

They get subsidized, bailed out, we get unforgiving laws enforced by an aristocracy reared to have nothing but contempt and caprice towards us. They are elected positions too, and we don’t even field candidates in all but a few districts for prosecutors, or judges for that matter. Two of the most powerful positions in the country, and both parties being lousy is never more true than it is with country judges and prosecutors.

Child labor is bad, but so it exploiting adults. They work those unfortunate souls in east and south asia, 6-12s, 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. No retirement, no workers compensation, unemployment, few safety precautions, few guards against toxins, the waste of these companies is dumped into the ditch behind the factory poisoning the entire watershed.

A great mass of these workers are not even citizens of the city where they live. It’s not like the US but like Europe used to be, you had to be accepted into a guild or have connections to get residency in a city, and China is still like that.

In the Great Leap Forward, they decided to sell the working population to western corporations, to garner our technology, willingly handed over, their factories built for them by western capital, to undercut labor and environmental costs in the west.

In the process they needed a mass of exploitable workers larger than their cities, as the majority (as I understand it,) still lived on small holding farms. They had a decent life, and some interesting and intelligent designs like bio-digesters for excrement and waste that they drew methane off of to heat and cook. But they were forced out, hundreds of millions, and thrown into the industrial meat grinder.

Threw into cities they had little to no connection to, and weren’t citizens in. On a word from their employer or whomever they can be thrown out of town, or beat up by the cops, or fined, etc, for even being in the cities they aren’t residents in, illegal immigrants in their own country, working 6-12s for starvation wages

We fund this system with every piece of electronic junk we buy now. The joke is on us too because the race to the bottom was in both labor and environmental standards, and quality. Every corner has long been cut, every penny of cost shaved, and more that could not be cut without affecting functionality being cut as well. So it breaks, Maybe right away. Everything is garbage, and once quality products are now defective since 2021, like best buy electronics, and the evidence of which suppressed on search engines, the only results being the help forums hosted by the manufacturers of those defective products like their sandisk mp3 players, of which I had 3 fail in that year alone due to bad soldered joints and a software glitch, no trauma from my end. Best buy refused to make good on their garbage products, were rude about it on the phone too in their automated 1-800 number bullshit.

The artist of that image, Ercan Baysal, is a left-wing Turkish cartoonist. The nose doesn’t look particularly different than most other characters he draws. I don’t see any evidence that it’s intended to be antisemitic in any way.

If you want to reuse it instead of the antisemitic one, I’ve uploaded a blank and more neutral version on my templates page ;)

That is the (fake) populism of the right in a picture. Except that pile of cookies is so much bigger than that now. A billion is such a large amount, a thousand millions, a thousand thousand thousands. They have up to hundreds of thousands ^3.