Billionaires in space
By Betsey Piette posted on July 26, 2021
Centibillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and multibillionaire Virgin Group founder Richard Branson used the profits they extracted from their companies’ workforce to launch themselves on personal space rides in recent weeks. And centibillionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk is expected to follow.
One thing is clear: None of these billionaires did any of the work that got them into space. All the labor to build their capsules, rocket launchers, launchpads and more was done by workers, whose labor these billionaires exploited.
These same billionaires’ earthly fortunes came from superexploiting workers in their factories, sweatshops and warehouses. They managed to pay little to no taxes to support public services. Nothing of benefit to humankind will come from this.
The most revealing moment of Jeff Bezos space launch happened after he landed
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Disturbing moment sheriff tasers 16-year-old boy at migrant shelter because he was refusing to go to school and had destroyed property
A video obtained by Reveal News shows Bexar County Sheriff s Deputy Patrick Divers tasering a 16-year-old Honduran boy at a migrant shelter
The incident took place May 12, 2020 at the Southwest Key Casa Blanca shelter after the teen had reportedly broken two beds and plastic bins
Divers bodycam video shows him being met by a staffer who told him the boy was acting really crazy. He s been breaking stuff … He s super aggressive
The teen was reportedly upset because he did not want to attend class that day
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Amazon announced Monday that it is launching a new program aimed at improving the health and safety of its workers.
WorkingWell will help employees avoid workplace injuries and improve their mental health, the e-commerce giant said in a blog post.
The program was piloted in 2019 and will be expanded to all American operations by the end of the year.
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It involves showing employees videos on how to do tasks without hurting themselves, mindfulness practices and signage in break rooms indicating what snacks are healthy.
Amazon has a history of misleading the public and lawmakers about its worker safety track record.
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Anita Muldoon could sense that this might be her last chance to make it as a cop. She was riding shotgun in a Minneapolis squad car in the fall of 1993 when her training officer offered a blunt assessment of her standing. “You’re not trusted,” he told her. “And you won’t be until you’re in a physical fight.”
To rectify this, he said, she’d need to “leak” someone, as in make them bleed. Muldoon felt her stomach drop. She had known she would stick out from her peers a liberal woman embarking on a law-enforcement career in her mid-thirties. She just hadn’t understood all the reasons why. Since coming to the 3rd Precinct, she’d often heard the n-word from her colleagues. Now her training officer motioned toward a black man walking in their direction on the sidewalk.
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