I have, lots. Look at what China has done. Rather than line the pockets of billionaires they spent money on infrastructure, build a world class high speed train system, housing, and on and on and on.
All the time. We were steadily working on that until Republican treason happened now we have to get rid of that before we can even get back on track let alone go forward.
When, after 40+ years of Gallup measuring it, Employee Engagement is *still* below 30%, it tells you the C-level just doesn’t care. Wall Street rewards them and their board handsomely with 70% of their employees suffering day in day out.
I see video's of asian innovation all the time. From fun things like smoothy machines made from real fruit that YOU put into the machine to firefighting drones for tall buildings.
Yes, because before DOGE, we were about to cure Cancer, cure Alzhimers. mRna was going to revolutionize modern medicine, and because of Trump and his band of morons we are going to be set back decades.
There will never be a time when about half the population aren’t complete dicks. What we can do is outvote them and outmaneuver them so we can make america great again. That’s how you use that phrase correctly. Taking it back.
The sad truth is that Corporations "legally" can't do that in most cases. They have a fiduciary duty to make profits, regardless of whether that would require environment and society destroying actions. That is the root of evil in our capitalistic ecosystem.
yes, what i don't understand is that was the message Biden was saying all through his presidency yet it wasn't heard, understood, or embraced by red America. Yet they will suffer the most under the trump/billionaires administration.
Why does it have to be so hard? Greed knows no bounds. The middle class pays a significant amount in federal income tax. Why can't we have a significant voice in how the $$ are spent?
All the time. We have the resources, talent, and innovation to build something truly just and sustainable if only we prioritized people over profit. Imagine what we could accomplish with that shift in values.
When you see the redbook videos from China, I believe I see a glimpse. Weird, what happens when you're not blowing stuff up with one missile the cost of several schools
A common theme among our troops advancing toward Germany at the end of WW II was “Imagine if we put forth all this effort into building/creating something.”
I often think the US is a young country. Like a young person, we think we are invincible and always right. However, we lack wisdom and an appreciation of world history.
I used to but at this point it’s hard to imagine anything good happening here. Sad to say my millennial heart is pretty broken at the state of our country. The American dream was a lie.
I'm sick of focusing on the military. This blank check for made up wars are getting old. Then you've got 31% of all veterans disabled. There are 5.5 million veterans on disability all due to Republicans and fake wars. Now it's the Houthis and we're in bed with Hamas sending money Qatar.
I immediately thought of you when I read Jess' question. The moral agreement that our government should do good for the majority has been thrown out like wilty lettuce.
I'm not the only one on this side of the pond who was taught to respect the effort against fascism - see the character played by Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan.
Today I heard the Mormon church has 260 Billion dollars in the bank. They could give every Mormon a million dollars and still have loads left over. Instead they take. And that’s the same for the USA as a whole. Greedy, culty cunts.
Not just America but humanity itself. We have reached the Moon but seem trapped to our earthly desires. Forever doomed to repeat the cycle of hierarchy. Greed is the deadliest sin and must be punished.
Yes. But I don't dwell on it because it's too depressing to realize that for my whole lifetime (I'm nearly 70), we've been told great things are right around the corner.
Where is my flying car? Where is that cure for the common cold?
Americans are kinda dumb. Rage against a label while struggling to pay rent, find child care, go bankrupt for medical problems, do active shooter drills in school regularly etc etc etc
sometimes lately, i've just thought i'm going to lose it big time and i will be so crazed i won't even be able to explain myself to the police who will be called to take me away.
Look at how successful we were until the MAGA era. Imagine if we all got along and 50% of the country wasn't racist and sexist! I guess one can only dream. 🗽
All the time. I remember all the fun and interesting science documentaries I could watch back in like, 2008-2015 or so. It was wonderful to see people working on fixing problems.
Yes:
Under Pres. Biden with Antony Blinken, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , @debhaalandnm.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com et al, there were major steps, toward a healthy economy, rising wages, environmental care, consumer protection, equal rights, IRS and Social Security functions, and world peace, etc.
Thats how i feel about humanity in general. If everyone got what they needed to survive we could focus on doing things we're proud of, and then people could build on those things. Common wellbeing leads to individual success leads to collective success.
Absolutely....I don't know if this will make sense, but this concept relative to the topic haunts me, that by not trying to make world society the best it can be for us all, that we have squandered people who would have cured cancer, or harness clean energy, or more...
we definitely could have colonized a couple planets by now and established new countries with distinct cultures due to the insane geological differences between planets if leaders were less greedy and the main person trying to do that wasnt just doing it for his own personal sweatshop colony.
Seriously even Churches don't focus on the common good. All the small neighborhood churches got swallowed up by the megachurches and all that money goes into Leer jets and sports cars.
Yes, it happened in the 1950s when corporate tax rates were 50% and tax rates on the top 1% were 50.6%. We built bridges, interstate roads, airports, etc. and corporations, and the wealthy still made plenty of money. Maybe only 1 mansion or 1 yacht, not like now where they have 5 mansions & 5 yachts
I think about it on a global scale, historically, from an agnostic position, and from a yoga mindset. Our egos will be our undoing. I often wonder what we were supposed to be doing here on earth all this time. Everything else seems to have a purpose except us. We are a persistent disease.
Most civilized countries are better off then the US. Canada is just one example but got a lot of luck because of there resources and tiny population. And they have one great thing going for them, they got all the Canadians.
Those resources are there because it's where the dinosaurs died. And the province I live in used to be a glacial lake and they've found one entire mosasaur skeleton. And the way the water flows is why we we have the number of lakes we have here (over 2 million in the country).
I think the real answer is “every race” rather than “only white people.” Voters had no issue supporting common good over corporate greed when said “good” only benefited white people.
Totally unrelated, but coincidentally, Boy Howdy Technology is a company that makes free, minimally-exploitative versions (just with a simple tiny banner ad) of all the mindless pay-to-play smartphone games, like colored ball sorting and word search.
#JB2028 #GutsAndGumption
Because we are tired of excuses and want a leader who doesn't have to take airline lobby $ or sell his soul and integrity in a wine cave to big $ corporate donors. Like FDR he has his own $ and is his own man. His State has High Speed Rail 😳🤔 He gets sh!t done for us. 🤷♂️🙏
But greedy corporations own the common goods! They decide for us, Congress, SCOTUS, and DearLeader! As long as he listens. If he strays, they reduce his weekly payments!
There would be no homeless or hungry people. I think about it all the time. The most frustrating part is that it would be sooo easy to fix if people weren't hoarding wealth.
Yes. Quality public education pre-through higher ed, actual action on climate change, protect our natural resources, paid maternity and paternity, high quality food in our public school and in general. Taking care of our veterans for life. Just to name a few.
.. I was just thinking about how crazy it is that we have the Power to get all of this ... But .. In no order .. Greed , Racism , Mysonogy , Hate and Ignorance seems to have stopped it from happening all of my long life ..
Common good is the purpose of pooling our resources and creating a government.
They would not a one of them have jobs otherwise.
Not a single one of them.
I’m pretty sure there are others that are having thoughts of figuring out a way to leave this country.This is not the America that we were brought up in & believed in and don’t want for our grandkids
I don’t think we can withstand four years of this, it’s too disheartening.
Speaking for a friend :)
If Trump had never been elected, I think our collective effort would have been directed at achieving equal Justice for all—and a simplified, fair and equal tax code.
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When, after 40+ years of Gallup measuring it, Employee Engagement is *still* below 30%, it tells you the C-level just doesn’t care. Wall Street rewards them and their board handsomely with 70% of their employees suffering day in day out.
They. Don’t. Care.
https://www.youtube.com/live/xKg4y96luFU?si=jaCLLrrJ3aFQfevp
Why concentrate on Corporate greed?
What do we have?
A SHIT TON OF CHEEP ASS BILLIONAIRES.
🗳️ 💙🇺🇸💙 🗳️
The meaning to life.
How to make people happy again.
There was a battle between those two forces until Reagan was elected, and corporate greed applied the knockout punches!!
There has been far too much emphasis - even in schools- on individual success over the common good, compassion and cooperation.
So many messages need changing.
"I am because we are"
No one is truly self made
Bravissimo.
Where is my flying car? Where is that cure for the common cold?
I can guarantee we would not be a third world country.
Under Pres. Biden with Antony Blinken, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , @debhaalandnm.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com et al, there were major steps, toward a healthy economy, rising wages, environmental care, consumer protection, equal rights, IRS and Social Security functions, and world peace, etc.
https://www.jeffculler.com
Seriously even Churches don't focus on the common good. All the small neighborhood churches got swallowed up by the megachurches and all that money goes into Leer jets and sports cars.
🪦The United States of America
🪦The United States Constitution
🪦Constitutional law
They are being suffocated to death by Trump & his MAGA GOP
P2025’s evisceration of judicial & legislative branches is institutionalizing fascism
Fucking.
Howdy.
Because we are tired of excuses and want a leader who doesn't have to take airline lobby $ or sell his soul and integrity in a wine cave to big $ corporate donors. Like FDR he has his own $ and is his own man. His State has High Speed Rail 😳🤔 He gets sh!t done for us. 🤷♂️🙏
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
They would not a one of them have jobs otherwise.
Not a single one of them.
I don’t think we can withstand four years of this, it’s too disheartening.
Speaking for a friend :)
How about Limited Liability greed? 😂
https://www.sanjosebusinesslawyersblog.com/benefit-corporation-and-social-purpose-corporation-alternatives-to-forming-a-purely-for-profit-business/
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-a-california-nonprofit-mutual-benefit-corporation.html