Environmental protections
samedi 26 janvier 2019 à 01:00The environment-hater's cancellation of environmental protection regulations is causing damage all around the US.
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The environment-hater's cancellation of environmental protection regulations is causing damage all around the US.
Companies and managers in the US really try to tell employees who to vote for. And not just a handful of them.
In the absence of legal protection against this, we need to make it very easy for employees to lie to their bosses about how they voted.
The US economy is so concentrated that in many areas there is little competition. This drives consumer prices up, and drives small farms out of business.
It also means less competition to hire any given worker, which drives wages down.
Amazon warehouse workers in the US are pushing to unionize. The company treats them as throwaways.
Children that grow up in poverty are mentally and physically stunted. This is a big drag in the economy — estimated at around a trillion dollars a year for the US.
The wealthy people who don't care about poor people's suffering might care about that.