The shrinking dream of the #TechWorker — from “maker of a #DentInTheUniverse” to “disposable source of free cash-flow for a #StockBuyback”

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers-ad0a6b09f7e6?sk=6dc50e8e1afc9bbd523a2fee4959e5c0

#Labor #Unions #TechUnions

#10yrsago Copyright enforcement as the New Prohibition: @waxy’s speech on fair use https://waxy.org/2013/04/the_new_prohibition/

#10yrsago American oligopolies are the new monopolies https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-oligopoly-problem

#5yrsago Trump’s sweetheart tax deal for economically useless financial engineering triggers a #StockBuyback bonanza https://www.ft.com/content/5f062834-3f51-11e8-b9f9-de94fa33a81e

#5yrsago T-Mobile fined $40m for scamming rural users with Potemkin ring-tones https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/t-mobile-deceived-customers-with-false-ring-tones-on-failed-phone-calls/

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George Will with, as is to be expected, a trash opinion built upon trash logic and a trash worldview.

Opinion Biden and Schumer lead nonsensical progressive charge against stock buybacks - https://archive.is/G2pKb#selection-781.0-811.105

For thoughts on stock buybacks more in keeping with my own views, might I direct you to my own views?

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/biden-falls-short-with-his-single-digit-stock-buyback-excise-tax

@law #law #tax #stockbuyback #stock

We should be calling the issuance of corporate debt to fund stock buybacks "Bondzi schemes." Pass it on.

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/biden-falls-short-with-his-single-digit-stock-buyback-excise-tax

#stockbuyback #bondzischeme

What’s Wrong at the Times - The American Prospect

Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.

#nytimes #labor #unions #stockbuyback

https://prospect.org/labor/new-york-times-union-contract-strike/

What's really going on here? #Abbott #babyformula #stockbuyback

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-26-formula-sickened-babies-abbott-5billion-stock-buybacks.html