Monday, August 16, 2021

Capitalism in 2021



Pictured, lower half: a YouTube preroll that announces that Amazon raised its minimum wage to  $15/hr for warehouse employees. Rather than actually improve working conditions and paying their employees more, Amazon decided to spend a lot of that money on promoting their modest pay raises.

Pictured top half: Jeff Bezos takes off into the upper atmosphere for 15 minutes with William Shatner and a small group of other rich people in a dick-shaped rocket not to further science or break new ground, just because.

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