Illinois has terrible politics but genuinely surprised by Pritzker.
Friendly reminder that most of Europe has TWENTY FIVE DAYS MANDATORY PAID TIME OFF PER YEAR and still gets 11 holidays in addition. Fuck this rat race in the US.
It makes fun of the French in particular but it's my favorite, funny pro-America work/life thing.
It's very funny because all the people he quoted as examples of USian innovation had their French counterparts.
Also yeah your month off is still paid lol, it's a paid vacation.
Well it seems at least one member of the capitalist class remembers how they maintained their wealth and avoided revolution by throwing the workers a bone every now and again
Isn’t Jay Inslee the governor of Washington a billionaire and okay-ish by US ghoul standards?
I was almost entirely sure this wasn't true and a cursory search indicates that his "net worth" is estimated at 7 million. This is up from like 300k prior to assuming the governorship in 2013, so there is room to complain (and it illustrates the core problem), but it's still good to be within the realm of reasonable approximation
edit: To some extent it's a moot point because the position fulfills many of the same awful drives that being a billionaire does, but I think that it's reasonable to recognize that this wasn't purely class warfare, which is probably the reason he is "okay-ish"
it's both tragic and funny that the last people to notice this isn't working are the same people with all the leverage to do anything about it.
Quite a few realise early, they've read Wealth of Nations if not Capital. but if you're committed to the system and believe it's good, the fix looks more like adding another set of epicycles rather than a new system. These people genuinely believe that every crisis can be solved with a few Social Democratic reforms and kicking the can down the road
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Blue bloods with a conscience. It’s like finding a $50 on your way home. It’s no way to plan a monthly budget, but fuck it I’ll take it
It's the Roosevelt advantage- having an independent source of wealth makes you less beholden to the structures of the party and thus more able to do things the party and powerful circles wouldn't let you do.
Congratulations Illinois for now being the only state in the union with vacation.
i'm completely surprised by him too. hes actually like, really good governor. maybe the best of all 50 states currently?
The guy in Minnesota just made them a trans refuge state last week. Admittedly I don't know anything else about him.
He's done some good work on the executive level—pardoned a bunch of people w/ marijuana convictions and expunged arrest records. Of course "good" is relative in :amerikkka:
Maybe he's one of those libertarians who believe that "gay couple should be able to grow weed and own AR15s"
In America, saying "I want gay married couples to protect their marijuana plants with guns" would have made you a freedom-loving libertarian in 2014, and a totalitarian 1984 woke today.
I think its a mix. You can't really accumulate the political capital to get much positive stuff done if you can't get anything through the legislature.
I mean, is local thingy passing good laws due to electing not-evil local reps, or is he going around bullying them? So, where are the origins basically
I mean, it was only a matter of time until US inflation eroded the phrase There are no good billionaires. There are no good multi-billionaires
This is Rod Blagojevic erasure. He's the one democrat that followed through on card check for union recognition, at least for public sector workers. He also sold a senate seat.
He more obviously sold a senate seat that had been sold before.
It's 40 hours or 5 days a year for most people. Better than nothing but still lower than pretty much every other country
Unless they're techbros which generally have fascist leanings, Billionaires are generally international rather than national bourgeoisie and that means that they are generally more committed to keeping the wheels on a bit longer and looting over timescales of centuries, not years.
i refuse to believe this man is real, simply because he looks too much like the actor who plays the fat defense lawyer in Law and Order SVU
