Nuclear weapons are still a threat to the survival of civilization.

Cory Doctorow: many major gig economy companies are con games, funded by Salafi Arabia.

They are designed to grow very large over a period many years, but always losing money. *Then, Softbank exits with an IPO that offloads the money-losing company on suckers who think its longevity means there must be a 'path to profitability.'* The way the investors profit is that the IPO brings in more than their investments.

Food delivery companies have many ways of preying on the restaurants they offer "services" to.

The few giant meat-processing companies in the US want Congress to give them immunity for working conditions that encourage the spread of Covid-19. The corrupter has already told OSHA to support the businesses rather than the workers.

To shut down the meat plants until they could run with safe procedures would have caused a disaster. But the government could have made them, could still make them, heavily liable for failure to protect the workers in all feasible ways, while helping to increase what is feasible.

*Activists protest ban on distributing food to migrants in Calais.*

It is unconscionable to try to eliminate inconvenient poor people by denying them food.