Mammon category archive
The Snaring Economy 1
A Danish court realizes that running a for-profit gypsy cab outfit is not “sharing,” even if you do with your iJunk:
It is now expected that Friday’s ruling will clear the way for cases to proceed against an additional 40 Uber drivers who have been charged with violating taxi laws.
More at the link.
Let’s Have a Range War 0
Someone is trying to steal our land.
Virtual Unreality 0
This looks like a clear case of date-and-switch:
The existence of the fembots – fake profiles used to keep men on the “Life is short, have an affair” forking out funds in case they got lucky – was revealed after the infamous hack of the site. . . .
At its worst, the site was accused of having just 1 per cent of “real women” among its members: the rest of its female profiles were fembots.
Investment Advice 0
Buy a politician.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
One more time, in Wingnut World, there is no such thing as the common good.
The World Is Their Oyster (and Their Oyster Knives Are in Hock) 0
I was lucky. My parents paid for my college education. Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, that was indeed possible for middle class families. Hell, when I was a young ‘un, there was still a “middle class.”
That was before college tuition became incredibly expensive and student loans became an instrument for perpetuating penury and paying for banksters’ country-club memberships.
Aside:
I got a letter today asking me to contribute to some memorial for Ronald Reagan. I shall answer it with an envelope full of subscription cards for The Nation, hoping that the senders will read it and learn something.
But they won’t.
Ryan’s Derp, Trustworthiness Is So Old Hat Dept. 0
Shaun Mullen, in what is almost an aside buried in a longer piece about the current state of the campaigns, reports on the latest conservative con: Republicans want to eliminate the concept of “fiduciary responsibility” (emphasis added):
In Republican World, everyone is on the take; the take is all there is.