I knew an HR manager who pushed their own MLM scheme onto a large corporation as a way of rewarding employees for meeting certain milestones. We would get gift cards/points that could only be used through fucking Amway or some shithead company and when they finally called her on it (years later) she got a slap on the wrist and the entire program was just cancelled.
I think your theory checks out.
That AND it disrupted access to healthcare for people with active infections. We're not talking people can't drive 15 minutes to get treatments, we're talking multiple days of travel to other towns.
This travel time was already a barrier to their access to care. Disruptions to travel, medical supplies, and quarantines from covid have also added to this burden.
TB disproportionately affects countries that have been heavily exploited by the imperial core.
By "infected" I mean they have latent TB. Once you have TB, it never actually goes away, it just becomes "dormant" and will opportunistically become an active infection again later.
So you could say up to 1/3 are carriers, but I don't really like that term, as it implies they are carriers like they carry a certain gene, when with TB, your immune cells basically just clump around TB to quarantine it. If your immune system gets weak or that clump of cells gets disrupted, boom! You have active TB.
It takes an incredibly low amount of exposure to transmit TB to someone else too.
Oprah - "...and you get a sanction! And you get a sanction! And YOU get a sanction!"
I totally agree. This seems like an "uh, oh, we fucked up. How do we reverse this?" kind of decision after posting their polling results on Twitter.
It's just the worst one.
Pretty sure $1000 is the line where it becomes a felony. Walmart has been known to keep track of theft and wait until they have enough evidence to bust you for a felony. "If we hit them with a felony, they go to prison and they can't steal anymore," is the justification. Really, they just don't see us as humans.
Makes shitty coffee, busts unions, supports genocide...all things people have told them they would boycott them for.
Starbucks ignores them and people stop buying their shitty coffee.
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Tell me you know nothing about socialism without saying you know nothing about socialism.
Sure, it was for spices, definitely not for money.
It was a different time. We don't do that anymore!
Ignoring everything else the US needs, I'd love to see the US gain a public-facing union rep like Mick Lynch (UK). Someone who won't put up with the media's nonsense and is straightforward in their goals and methods for representing their union's values.
As much as hero worship can be a problem, I think such people help improve the class consciousness of the US working class and could help them realize, "Hey, we actually CAN do something to change and improve our government. Here's how."
I think it's just missing a bit of specificity.
Building more bike lanes will reduce traffic. Building more bus lanes will reduce traffic. Building more tram lines will reduce traffic. Building more car lanes will ~~reduce~~ induce traffic.
Not perfect, but solid logic within reason (Building 100 more bus lanes will reduce traffic).