The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. th-cam.com/video/uxRSkM8C8z4/w-d-xo.html georgeoughttohelp.com beyonddemocracy.net
*+ElectricJohnny* Hey friend, his real name is "Tom Walker" and he and another smart fellow called Andrew Doyle write these rants. It's a great character.
They won't have a point of reference to do so - they'll grow up in a social environment stripped off many things we, today, take for granted. And who is going to tell them stories about a different world? The very generation which gave up on all of it, in exchange for a minor improvement in "convenience"? As the saying goes, "what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over"
Just look at the U.S. for the highly profitable law & order prisons and detention centers. The US justice system now controls about 7 million people of which 1/2 are on probation. If arrested and can’t make bail to freaking bad in you stay. Corporations like Starbucks,Victoria’s Secret,etc inmates get paid .23 an hour. What corporations will do for cheap labor. www.unicor.gov/PieProgram.aspx
If you use Netflix you do. Everyone seems to forget that Amazon's real moneymaking machine isn't retail, it's AWS. A significant portion of the internet's major services use it, so by just surfing the web for a few hours you're giving them a few cents.
Similar was said about Wonga before it went bankrupt. Church called them a disgrace untill they realised they had shares in them. Also at the same time it was disclosed they had investments in weapon manufacturers/sales & porn sites... I'm sure their God is proud of there good investments 😱. 🙈🙉🙊👏👍
You make it sound as though the church accidentally bought shares in Wonga. =P Regardless, it hardly supports their claim to the moral high ground if they willfully invest in such a blatantly despicable practice.
TheOneLichemperor the bishop was notified after his statement/interview about the church of England investments, he personally never knew. The church say they invest in portfolios so didn't have prior knowledge (I not believe that tbh).
This year I cancelled my Prime membership, and managed to do very little shopping on Amazon. If a lot of people did that, problem solved...? Well it's not that easy... Their insane amount of money can buy some good PR, so it's gonna take a lot of Jonathan Pies to make people associate Amazon with evil. But I think we've already done a good job denting Facebook and Google's reputations - many people think of privacy infringement and political bias when they think of those companies. We can definitely make a difference if these memes spread.
The problem isn't corporations - it's the *system* that allows them to act like this! This is exactly what a capitalistic system ALWAYS will lead to in the end!
Justen Smith - no, its the system. It isnt the corporations fault for exploiting tax loopholes, or workers - its the system that permits it. NO company is too rich to be taxed - but many states are too scared to do the taxing. Dont blame the child for eating chocolate of you give him the keys to the sweetshop.
@@rick-potts No, because if you try to tax them, they leave. If they leave, you lose out on taxing the money they give to the employees. If you seize assets before they leave, the other corporations and the rich stop investing because you have no qualms taking their shit. Securing corporation tax is a race to the bottom, free market enterprise, who can provide the best security for the lowest price? You'll find it's the countries with all the corporate HQs. Tax evasion is a symptom of high taxation and/or corruption brought about by government investment in private enterprise. Fact is, even countries with closed borders suffer brain drains when taxation gets too high. Our government isn't privatising anything, it's handing out localised monopolies. It's the curse of beaurocracy, it can never fully remove itself from a given sector once put in place. As such, they have given the railways the profit focus of capitalism without the competition and resulting efficiency and lower costs. So all in all I agree with your statement that it's the system, just for completely different reasons.
Good on you mate! Check out George Carlin*, Jimmy Dore and Secular talk. America based, though they do review some UK stuff, but of similar quality. *Typo
@@Samuel-vq4ii What? Apple basically doesn't pay a single tax dollar? And they're the biggest ripoff of them all. They produce with slave conditions (like the rest) and then sell for 10x the price.
Bullshit. Apple are usually not a "rip off" at all. How many of their products, especially the computers, need to be broken down and priced and compared to everyone else before people stop saying this crap? They are *expensive* but they are not a *rip-off*. Just because they don't operate at the cheap end of any market. And before you ask, on my desk I have 1 Apple laptop, 1 Dell desktop, 1 Samsung laptop and 1 Samsung phone and I have been an IT pro since the last century (just).
In about 10 years time Amazon will be the only store, Facebook the only communication (and its subsidiaries), Google the only way to obtain information and Apple the only way to do all of the above...
Apple are pure greed. They lock you in and rip you off. You're paying for the brand, nothing else. If you break down an Apple you will find an overpriced Samsung, idiot! IT pro-bationer, more like.
And the US supreme court essentially declared that donating money = free speech, hence campaign donations should not be limited. Leaving an average citizen's "speech" to compete with the "speech" of multi-billion dollar corporations and lobbyists.
I'm from the fucking US and I love it. Welcome to what we have been dealing with. For profit prisons, slave wages, large business passing the buck off onto the tax payer, and the enabling consumer.
It's well documented how horribly Amazon treats its workers/drivers. But what has really frosted me in the past year is how the company fights tooth & nail to prevent unions. This has involved the National Labor Relations Board since some of the tactics are illegal.
I'm vegetarian, never owned a car, _actually do_ live in a cave (with internet and solar power), never used amazon, never owned an apple product and for the last ten years haven't owned a TV. Literally cannot remember the last time I went out for a meal. I use Linux to avoid the Windows trap. What's more I'm really happy with my life-style.
Dont worry, I've got your back. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000HQR9UQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1537210545&sr=8-2&keywords=shepherds+pie&dpPl=1&dpID=51vXJfZZmcL&ref=plSrch
I can't even being myself to laugh. It's not a problem that can be solved simply. It's the worst of capitalism. Big businesses exploiting everything without a shred of remorse. Law and justice should be unbreakable but if they can be bought then that puts liberty and personal freedom in danger. No one, no matter how much money they have should be above the law. Something has to change.
One point, US prisons are closer to western slave labour than Amazon. Just saying the problem is bigger than being told here, both are still deplorable.
I've been at least 6 months Amazon free. It's amazing how not hard it is to wait a few days for something to be delivered. The trickiest part is also avoiding all their subsidiaries, but with a little care, it's very doable.
@@wakaisgood yes global warming is partially natural, however we are responsible for a lot of it. It wouldn't be nearly as serious without us contributing to it
I got a leaflet about Amazon creating 2500 jobs from my local politician. Quite how I'm supposed to feel about celebrating tax evasion all for the sake of a few jobs to get the numbers down is despicable. The worst part is that we are indeed complicit in it because the prices are inviting and for many, just getting something delivered takes the hassle out of everything instead of going out and trying to find what you're looking for.
The problem is that everyone justifies their complicity by saying “but I’m just one person! It won’t matter if *I* use plastic bottles, or amazon, or palm oil, or eat meat. But the problem is that the whole planet is made up of “just one persons”
I'd love to have a lot of money and not worry about bills, but I can't understand how he could be the richest man in the world owning a trillion dollar company and not want to pay his employees a good wage.
Simple he would be out of the business, or be a lot smaller if he would pay a "good wage". It's all economy of scale, even a small savings on each sold product sums up to astronomical savings if you are selling millions of units. Amazon is the best example of economy of scale, they cut cost everywhere where they can, the only important thing is too sell a lot and keep good customer service, because a happy customer will come back. I like the hypocrisy of our society, we are outraged by bad working conditions in Amazon warehouses in US and Europe, but we don't care about working conditions of people who make products that is sold by Amazon. Our phones (iPhones) are made in factories where people where jumping out of the windows so often that they installed anti-suicide nets to combat the problem. They didn't make the working conditions better, they just installed anti-suicide nets. Our shoes (Nike) are made in factories where people collapse from overheating. Globalization is truly amazing.
Simple answer - Greed. Pure and simple. Greed is the worst of the 7 deadly sins. It kills more than wrath, wrecks more lives than lust, causes more fights than envy or pride and makes more disease than gluttony. Greed is everything that's wrong with the world.
The company is worth $1 trillion, but that's just what it's been valued at. It's assets, including cash, will be far, far, far less. And, unlike Apple that keep a considerable amount of their money as cash, Amazon don't. Amazon are also known to run on very thin profit margins, or even losses, as they reinvest a lot of their profits. As for Bezos himself; like many people of his personal wealth a lot of it is also tied to the valuation of their company.
Pls, last year Bezos pocketed 107million a day.. He's literally the richest man alive, so no excuse for him to not pay his workers a living wage.. If 107million a day is not enough than nothing is and the only motive to want more is greed. Don't try to rationalize this bs, there's nothing rational about one person earning 107million a day whilst half of his workers struggle to even eat properly each day..
Do you realize how much one person actually can cost to a company? Also he pays good wage. Even having 10 people with decent wage will cost around one million.
I use amazon all the time and I'm not sure why everyone is suddenly up in arms about it. It has paid shitty wages since inception and has dodged tax within full gaze of legislators and even with the duplicity of entire nation states (I'm looking at you Ireland). You can pretty comfortably apply the same logic (minimising tax liability and "cost of employment") to almost all multinational corporations. Boycotting them does, and will do fuck all - legislation and the resolve to use it are the only things that will bring change to that equation.
If you're not living through a drought or in a place like Flint with contaminated water, you don't need bottled water. Period. It's the biggest scam I've ever seen, convincing people to pay for that shit. Just awful.
@@ibuprofen303 I was kidding. In the west, there is still some or just really close to it, in the arab peninsula, asia etc. it's still way too widespread it's insane.
thats all back to front ITS NOT A CASE OF POLITICIANS CANT MAKE THEM PAY TAX these corporations dont creep into the tax office window at night & change the tax codes, the politicians wright the tax codes so they. there cronies & there party donors can rip us off themselves thats why they dont close the loopholes down. Corporations just piggy back on it if they wanted they could simply put a couple of prime directives in the tax code(thats directives that overrule all other clauses) SAYING FOR EXAMPLE ALL CORPORATIONS DOING ANY KIND OF BUSINESS IN THE UK MUST PAY A MINIMUM OF SAY 20% TAX & ANY CLAUSES LOOPHOLES SO ON TAKING IT BELOW THAT AUTOMATICALLY BECOME VOID but thats never going to happen as long as our own MP.s are screwing the tax system the corporations will be screwing it right along side them
It's all about the revolving door policy where the MPs and tax office civil servants end up being on the board of directors for the companies that pay little to no taxes.
Exactly. Everyone screams 'capitalism is evil!' while ignoring that the revolving door between government officials writing the regulations and seats at large corporations is the real problem. It's clear as day! I can't even imagine how anyone could debate it! Corporations are writing tax law and business regulations. That's not a theory. It's been public knowledge for decades. It's also the antithesis of capitalism. You can't have free market capitalism when a small portion of businesses control the government and write the laws, because smaller businesses can't compete! And that's the way large corporations like it, when nobody can compete with them. And the few that struggle close to the top get bought out. This is NOT capitalism.
a Russian Bot Mainly the politicians and their staffers. There are very few tax office civil servants outside of the appointed positions that go between the two. Don't blame the bureaucrats as unlikable as they can be they are innocent in this case. Jeffrey Dean Maybe it is the antithesis of Utopian capitalism but it is exactly what the more socialist leaning have been fighting against since before Marx learned to write. It is why the regulations that are currently being abolished were put in place in the first place and it seems to be the inevitable result of unregulated capitalism every time.
Don't blame individuals who buy Starbucks or use Amazon. Work together as a group to take down large corporations that have created the system that results in Amazon or Starbucks.
Amazon leaching off taxpayers by employing them and lowering prices on just about every imaginable product. Which makes you more of a leach: keeping money people voluntarily gave to you, or taking money someone voluntarily gave to someone else?
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tjwd Turdies went to war with IRAQ on suspicion of weapons of mass destruction, they slaughtered and coloured the country red with all the blood they spilt of innocent civilians. They did all this for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 0 weapons of mass destruction found. this is the nincompoop party you think there is no alternative to. Let ANYONE take over, tories set the bar really low, a political party would have to work pretty damn hard to get worse than TURDIES.
It's corporatism. If this was free market capitalism then monopolies like amazon, Google and wallmart would not hold the power they currently have at the moment. And the government is slowing pushing out smaller businesses, especially with the introduction of article 11 and 13 where small business would be swamped with bureaucracy and fines.
It's the intelligent thing to do these days. He's absolutely right about how the meat industry corrupts PR for their own benefit, whilst putting the most horrendous chemicals into meat just to keep it red looking in the wrapper. That said, most people will blindly ignore it and carry on until the heart failure from cholesterol or cancer from chemicals. Much like smoking. So in the end who gives a shit what the stupid do to kill themselves. Evolution isn't it.
You're absolutely right about Amazon. I heard that their workers have to pee in bottles because they will loose their job to someone else if they take a piss break. Honestly, I don't care about my one day Amazon delivery if this it the price we pay for it. fuck that!
Took put Amazon Prime to get something quick intending to cancel. Forgot and was charged £7.99 for next month. 18 days into my unused first paid month I filled in the cancel form and was offered a refund too and took it! Hooray for Amazon!
This trend cannot continue forever! We must do something - anything - to stand up in defence of the exploited. We are living in a world of injustice. Luckily, there is still hope for humanity. Pie for President!
Thanks Tom, spot on, as always!
“Politics is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
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@ElectricJohnny
Except it's not...it's his stage name.
Fuck the 4th! Why else would he be:
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
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*+ElectricJohnny*
Hey friend, his real name is "Tom Walker" and he and another smart fellow called Andrew Doyle write these rants. It's a great character.
Do you know what a fourth wall is?
It's called Amazon because that's where you have to look for their owed tax money they've stashed away.
It's called Apple because that's what the devil tricks people into eating
Barney Google must be rolling his eyes, somewhere
It's called "hiding in plain sight." Reminds me of a comedic sketch involving a fictitious law firm called "Dewey Cheatham & Howe."
If they carry on packaging things like they do they will soon have nowhere to hide their ill gotten gains.
No one owes tax money. That's just something the government says.
"privatising law and order" - future generations will not look kindly on us
Don't feel too bad, judging by the way the UK is going, wont be many future generations to worry about.
It's already happening in the US on a massive scale.
Oh, you haven't seen idiocracy?
They won't have a point of reference to do so - they'll grow up in a social environment stripped off many things we, today, take for granted. And who is going to tell them stories about a different world? The very generation which gave up on all of it, in exchange for a minor improvement in "convenience"?
As the saying goes, "what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over"
Just look at the U.S. for the highly profitable law & order prisons and detention centers. The US justice system now controls about 7 million people of which 1/2 are on probation. If arrested and can’t make bail to freaking bad in you stay. Corporations like Starbucks,Victoria’s Secret,etc inmates get paid .23 an hour. What corporations will do for cheap labor. www.unicor.gov/PieProgram.aspx
This world is getting pretty weird. Cheers for trying to make sense of it cheers Pie.
Getting?
It's a long slippery slope but just seems more slippery of late.
Bottled water. . . . Evian is NAIVE backwards!!!!!
But what about the chemicals the government puts in tap water, like DIeHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!
@PESFIFA Motorhead being the best......
Yes, dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous stuff, especially when inhaled, and is a major component in many environmental disasters.
@@coconinoco it's tasteless so be wary, it's also an industrial solvent
Memes is SEMEN backwards!!!!!
I don't use Amazon. "You can never get enough of what you don't really need"
I researched Amazon 15 years ago, and found it to be evil. Bezos will not get my money
Just a shame you're profile name isn't Tyler Durden.
Fancy changing it for me? ^^
If you use Netflix you do. Everyone seems to forget that Amazon's real moneymaking machine isn't retail, it's AWS. A significant portion of the internet's major services use it, so by just surfing the web for a few hours you're giving them a few cents.
I don't use Netflix either. I do surf the web a fair bit though - maybe I should cut down
Nice quote!
“We can have vast wealth in the hands of a few, or we can have a democracy. We cannot have both.” - Brandeis
Similar was said about Wonga before it went bankrupt. Church called them a disgrace untill they realised they had shares in them. Also at the same time it was disclosed they had investments in weapon manufacturers/sales & porn sites... I'm sure their God is proud of there good investments 😱. 🙈🙉🙊👏👍
You make it sound as though the church accidentally bought shares in Wonga. =P
Regardless, it hardly supports their claim to the moral high ground if they willfully invest in such a blatantly despicable practice.
TheOneLichemperor the bishop was notified after his statement/interview about the church of England investments, he personally never knew. The church say they invest in portfolios so didn't have prior knowledge (I not believe that tbh).
I'm willing enough to believe it, though I wouldn't put money on it!
It’s a good job god doesn’t exist, either that or he’s a lazy cunt
Trust me, most Christians hate the church institutions more than any of us ever could.
This year I cancelled my Prime membership, and managed to do very little shopping on Amazon. If a lot of people did that, problem solved...? Well it's not that easy...
Their insane amount of money can buy some good PR, so it's gonna take a lot of Jonathan Pies to make people associate Amazon with evil.
But I think we've already done a good job denting Facebook and Google's reputations - many people think of privacy infringement and political bias when they think of those companies.
We can definitely make a difference if these memes spread.
The problem isn't corporations - it's the *system* that allows them to act like this!
This is exactly what a capitalistic system ALWAYS will lead to in the end!
Justen Smith - no, its the system. It isnt the corporations fault for exploiting tax loopholes, or workers - its the system that permits it. NO company is too rich to be taxed - but many states are too scared to do the taxing. Dont blame the child for eating chocolate of you give him the keys to the sweetshop.
@@rick-potts No, because if you try to tax them, they leave. If they leave, you lose out on taxing the money they give to the employees. If you seize assets before they leave, the other corporations and the rich stop investing because you have no qualms taking their shit.
Securing corporation tax is a race to the bottom, free market enterprise, who can provide the best security for the lowest price? You'll find it's the countries with all the corporate HQs.
Tax evasion is a symptom of high taxation and/or corruption brought about by government investment in private enterprise.
Fact is, even countries with closed borders suffer brain drains when taxation gets too high. Our government isn't privatising anything, it's handing out localised monopolies. It's the curse of beaurocracy, it can never fully remove itself from a given sector once put in place. As such, they have given the railways the profit focus of capitalism without the competition and resulting efficiency and lower costs.
So all in all I agree with your statement that it's the system, just for completely different reasons.
@Justen Smith >They buy everything
They pay into the private sector, increasing the flow of capital?
Good luck spreading memes in Britain
I'm actually doing a Jonathan Pie video for my English coursework
Alasdair Perry.
Will you post it after?
@@KlaraZoom Ah I don't think I'll be able to I'm afraid
Which one, if I may ask?
@@loyolean Was gonna do the 'David Cameron: VILE MAN' Video, that's definitely one of my favourites :)
Good on you mate! Check out George Carlin*, Jimmy Dore and Secular talk. America based, though they do review some UK stuff, but of similar quality.
*Typo
Top job again Mr. Pie. 👌👍
Hey up Mr Coops. Fancy finding you here! Spike.
Martin Short hey up Spike! Hope you’re well bud. Small world innit? 😉✌️😁
Bloody good to hear from you mate! I hope life’s treating you well. We had some wicked times back in the day. Take it easy spike! 👍😁✌️
This man puts into words everything that I think. Nice to know I'm not alone.
Simply brilliant
Another great vid. Thank u you are soo right. The key word to why we live in a fuc*ed up world is GREED folks! GREED!
Amazon, Google , Facebook and Apple just as bad as each other.
shaun davies Apple isn’t that bad when it comes to taxes, they only dodged taxes on a few watch bands.
@@Samuel-vq4ii What? Apple basically doesn't pay a single tax dollar? And they're the biggest ripoff of them all. They produce with slave conditions (like the rest) and then sell for 10x the price.
Bullshit. Apple are usually not a "rip off" at all. How many of their products, especially the computers, need to be broken down and priced and compared to everyone else before people stop saying this crap? They are *expensive* but they are not a *rip-off*. Just because they don't operate at the cheap end of any market.
And before you ask, on my desk I have 1 Apple laptop, 1 Dell desktop, 1 Samsung laptop and 1 Samsung phone and I have been an IT pro since the last century (just).
In about 10 years time Amazon will be the only store, Facebook the only communication (and its subsidiaries), Google the only way to obtain information and Apple the only way to do all of the above...
Apple are pure greed. They lock you in and rip you off. You're paying for the brand, nothing else. If you break down an Apple you will find an overpriced Samsung, idiot! IT pro-bationer, more like.
Mate... This is the brewing frustration I harbour every second of every day. Your best work by far.
In my case, for sixty years. _"Anarchism is democracy taken seriously"_ - Piotr Kropotkin.
Amazon - the new church. It's terrible but nowadays we can't go without it. Jonathan pie, you're awesome.
And Disney is the mega church
Once again, needfully magnificent rant , bravo. Thanks from us who can’t do what you do so perfectly
And the US supreme court essentially declared that donating money = free speech, hence campaign donations should not be limited. Leaving an average citizen's "speech" to compete with the "speech" of multi-billion dollar corporations and lobbyists.
You got it!
Not exactly what they decided but that is the end result.
Damn so spot on.. Great one as always Jonathan!
the crown and the church were so focused on their own power struggle, they never noticed the merchants taking over the world.
by far one of your best congratulations Jonathan.
"As long as our TV's are 4k ready" 😂😂😂
I'm from the fucking US and I love it. Welcome to what we have been dealing with. For profit prisons, slave wages, large business passing the buck off onto the tax payer, and the enabling consumer.
Go get em Pie.
Keep up the good work Sir ! You ARE our VOICE !!! Only VOICE !!! fed up of these bastards !!!!!!!!!
It's well documented how horribly Amazon treats its workers/drivers. But what has really frosted me in the past year is how the company fights tooth & nail to prevent unions. This has involved the National Labor Relations Board since some of the tactics are illegal.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
We're living in Robocop world. Richard Branson is Dick Jones.
You have 10 seconds to comply.
Robocop is still a relevant today as it was back them. Maybe even more so now. Its like they predicted the future.
I would slightly disagree, as he is just a Dick.
I'm vegetarian, never owned a car, _actually do_ live in a cave (with internet and solar power), never used amazon, never owned an apple product and for the last ten years haven't owned a TV. Literally cannot remember the last time I went out for a meal. I use Linux to avoid the Windows trap. What's more I'm really happy with my life-style.
I've boycott amazon, nestle, as well as many other companies. I urge you to do the same as well, don't let them leach of you or your country.
How can comedy be so seriously right. We dont live in a democracy, we live in a corpocracy and it wont change until we the people rise up.
I do like me some Shepherd's Pie if I'm being honest...
That... might just be precisely what he was talking about XD
Worth the end of the world tbqh.
Cottage pie for me. Shepherd's pie is the work of Beelzebub. Lamb? Pfft.
Shots fired! *Cue massive TH-cam comments section fight*
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Amazing. Everyone should listen to this man.
I can't even being myself to laugh. It's not a problem that can be solved simply. It's the worst of capitalism. Big businesses exploiting everything without a shred of remorse. Law and justice should be unbreakable but if they can be bought then that puts liberty and personal freedom in danger. No one, no matter how much money they have should be above the law. Something has to change.
Greytruth I think britain needs sharia, these usurer businesses would get whats coming to them!
Hell yes, Jonathan Pie you absolute savage.
One point, US prisons are closer to western slave labour than Amazon. Just saying the problem is bigger than being told here, both are still deplorable.
Wow, a massive corporation acting really greedy?? I'm as shocked as I've ever been!!
I've been at least 6 months Amazon free. It's amazing how not hard it is to wait a few days for something to be delivered. The trickiest part is also avoiding all their subsidiaries, but with a little care, it's very doable.
Love this channel.
Make politics and new worth watching.
Last time I was this early, global warming was a hoax
Last time I was this early we were trying to save the rainforest.
Matty apparently the early birds gets the joke.
@@wakaisgood yes global warming is partially natural, however we are responsible for a lot of it. It wouldn't be nearly as serious without us contributing to it
wakaisgood ok but it was a joke. Just saying
It still is a hoax. They've doubled down on it recently because people were beginning to catch on.
well said Mr Pie!!! We need more ethical actions more than profiteering actions!
My Alexa just cut out when I watched it
...
Hmm
It was sending a report to HQ.
😂
I got a leaflet about Amazon creating 2500 jobs from my local politician. Quite how I'm supposed to feel about celebrating tax evasion all for the sake of a few jobs to get the numbers down is despicable. The worst part is that we are indeed complicit in it because the prices are inviting and for many, just getting something delivered takes the hassle out of everything instead of going out and trying to find what you're looking for.
And yet we will all still use Amazon...
Not some of us.
The problem is that everyone justifies their complicity by saying “but I’m just one person! It won’t matter if *I* use plastic bottles, or amazon, or palm oil, or eat meat.
But the problem is that the whole planet is made up of “just one persons”
I haven't enjoyed a comedian so much since jon stewart
Tell you what brother! You have my respect and love!
"We all still use it"
Speak for yourself.
Never used Amazon. Never will. Simple as that.
Say no to Amazon, quite honestly. I also stopped buying there. Thanks Pie!!
Fantastic!
Proper off da hook. One of your best of recent, Mr. Pie.
I'd love to have a lot of money and not worry about bills, but I can't understand how he could be the richest man in the world owning a trillion dollar company and not want to pay his employees a good wage.
Simple he would be out of the business, or be a lot smaller if he would pay a "good wage". It's all economy of scale, even a small savings on each sold product sums up to astronomical savings if you are selling millions of units. Amazon is the best example of economy of scale, they cut cost everywhere where they can, the only important thing is too sell a lot and keep good customer service, because a happy customer will come back.
I like the hypocrisy of our society, we are outraged by bad working conditions in Amazon warehouses in US and Europe, but we don't care about working conditions of people who make products that is sold by Amazon. Our phones (iPhones) are made in factories where people where jumping out of the windows so often that they installed anti-suicide nets to combat the problem. They didn't make the working conditions better, they just installed anti-suicide nets. Our shoes (Nike) are made in factories where people collapse from overheating.
Globalization is truly amazing.
Simple answer - Greed. Pure and simple. Greed is the worst of the 7 deadly sins. It kills more than wrath, wrecks more lives than lust, causes more fights than envy or pride and makes more disease than gluttony. Greed is everything that's wrong with the world.
The company is worth $1 trillion, but that's just what it's been valued at. It's assets, including cash, will be far, far, far less. And, unlike Apple that keep a considerable amount of their money as cash, Amazon don't. Amazon are also known to run on very thin profit margins, or even losses, as they reinvest a lot of their profits.
As for Bezos himself; like many people of his personal wealth a lot of it is also tied to the valuation of their company.
Pls, last year Bezos pocketed 107million a day.. He's literally the richest man alive, so no excuse for him to not pay his workers a living wage..
If 107million a day is not enough than nothing is and the only motive to want more is greed.
Don't try to rationalize this bs, there's nothing rational about one person earning 107million a day whilst half of his workers struggle to even eat properly each day..
Do you realize how much one person actually can cost to a company? Also he pays good wage. Even having 10 people with decent wage will cost around one million.
Brilliant stuff Jonathan!
Ink cartridges are sacred.
Three years past and this content is still fresh as a daisy. America is the same across the board.
Read "Not On The Label" by Felicity Lawrence. If you think there's something wrong with most food we are sold then you're right.
Thank you once again
Won't use Amazon under any circumstances.
Me neither.
Me neither, I'd rather go without!
I’m sure they’re quaking in their boots.
Ah mate, but Audible is well bangin doh
I use amazon all the time and I'm not sure why everyone is suddenly up in arms about it. It has paid shitty wages since inception and has dodged tax within full gaze of legislators and even with the duplicity of entire nation states (I'm looking at you Ireland).
You can pretty comfortably apply the same logic (minimising tax liability and "cost of employment") to almost all multinational corporations.
Boycotting them does, and will do fuck all - legislation and the resolve to use it are the only things that will bring change to that equation.
He hits the nail on the head about so many problems .
Bottled water is one of the most ridiculous product that people buy into, second only to canned air.
bottled water is cleaner and has a higher alkaline content
If you're not living through a drought or in a place like Flint with contaminated water, you don't need bottled water. Period. It's the biggest scam I've ever seen, convincing people to pay for that shit. Just awful.
no, debt-money is the biggest scam on the planet. :)
Absolutely spot on... Pie for PM!!
Yum yum nothing like abit of privatization, steroid meat whilst having a cup of slave coffee.
"B-b-but it's 2018, there's no slavery nowadays anymore, how could that possibly be?"
There's plenty of slavery in 2018, but not in the West.
@@ibuprofen303 I was kidding. In the west, there is still some or just really close to it, in the arab peninsula, asia etc. it's still way too widespread it's insane.
+BottomFragger - Ah ok lol I was 50/50 whether you were serious or joking.
when u word it like that, its sad that the world is this way.
There is no man more on point than this man. He is point man.
thats all back to front
ITS NOT A CASE OF POLITICIANS CANT MAKE THEM PAY TAX
these corporations dont creep into the tax office window at
night & change the tax codes, the politicians wright the tax
codes so they. there cronies & there party donors can rip us off
themselves thats why they dont close the loopholes down.
Corporations just piggy back on it
if they wanted they could simply put a couple of prime directives
in the tax code(thats directives that overrule all other clauses)
SAYING FOR EXAMPLE ALL CORPORATIONS DOING ANY KIND OF
BUSINESS IN THE UK MUST PAY A MINIMUM OF SAY 20% TAX & ANY
CLAUSES LOOPHOLES SO ON TAKING IT BELOW THAT AUTOMATICALLY
BECOME VOID
but thats never going to happen as long as our own MP.s are screwing
the tax system the corporations will be screwing it right along side them
It's all about the revolving door policy where the MPs and tax office civil servants end up being on the board of directors for the companies that pay little to no taxes.
Exactly. Everyone screams 'capitalism is evil!' while ignoring that the revolving door between government officials writing the regulations and seats at large corporations is the real problem. It's clear as day! I can't even imagine how anyone could debate it! Corporations are writing tax law and business regulations. That's not a theory. It's been public knowledge for decades. It's also the antithesis of capitalism. You can't have free market capitalism when a small portion of businesses control the government and write the laws, because smaller businesses can't compete! And that's the way large corporations like it, when nobody can compete with them. And the few that struggle close to the top get bought out. This is NOT capitalism.
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Mainly the politicians and their staffers. There are very few tax office civil servants outside of the appointed positions that go between the two. Don't blame the bureaucrats as unlikable as they can be they are innocent in this case.
Jeffrey Dean
Maybe it is the antithesis of Utopian capitalism but it is exactly what the more socialist leaning have been fighting against since before Marx learned to write. It is why the regulations that are currently being abolished were put in place in the first place and it seems to be the inevitable result of unregulated capitalism every time.
This rant was absolutely epic well done
GCSE time
I've just found Jonathan Pie on TH-cam and im over the moon 80+ videos to get thru
Don't blame individuals who buy Starbucks or use Amazon. Work together as a group to take down large corporations that have created the system that results in Amazon or Starbucks.
I had to scroll down far to find a sensible comment but here it is
Brilliant - we live in sad times - so many wrong decisions being made its spectacular.
45 views, 84 likes. Good job youtube.
2 hours, 3 likes. Shit job HeyMrBear.
I wish we had Jonathan Pie in the U.S..
Jeff Bezos knows what he's doing
Greedy fucker.
Jonathan... I love you man!
You’re getting close. Keep circling.
Let me guess - withing a year he'll realise the terrifying truth:
All powerful figures are lizard people.
anti-Semitism is anti-capitalism for idiots
Amazon leaching off taxpayers by employing them and lowering prices on just about every imaginable product. Which makes you more of a leach: keeping money people voluntarily gave to you, or taking money someone voluntarily gave to someone else?
I'm not an AnCap, AnCaps recently got me a 30 day ban from Facebook, I'm just interested to see some responses here
Is anyone else getting "The Nigel Farage Show" on LBC on their 'up next' autoplay? I suspect there might be something slightly wrong with that particular algorithm...
All the fucking time! Ive watched a few clips of LBC but Farage gets his own notification on the main screen of my phone. Something dodgy there like.
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Tell the algorithm that you are not interested in farage.
Mine is a CNN being shit journalists again.
You stay in your comfortable echo chamber then
Masterpiece! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
TORYS OUT NOW!
The problem is we don't have any alternative.
tjwd your opinion not mine
Who do you think's viable?
tjwd Turdies went to war with IRAQ on suspicion of weapons of mass destruction, they slaughtered and coloured the country red with all the blood they spilt of innocent civilians. They did all this for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 0 weapons of mass destruction found. this is the nincompoop party you think there is no alternative to. Let ANYONE take over, tories set the bar really low, a political party would have to work pretty damn hard to get worse than TURDIES.
We had a Labour government from 1997 - 2010... we went to war under them, not the tories.
Brilliant and so on point! 👏👌
gotta love the smell of capitalism
It's corporatism. If this was free market capitalism then monopolies like amazon, Google and wallmart would not hold the power they currently have at the moment. And the government is slowing pushing out smaller businesses, especially with the introduction of article 11 and 13 where small business would be swamped with bureaucracy and fines.
Mmmm!... Smells like a dead whale!
@@5ryans corporatism and capitalism are the exact god damn same thing.
In the morning?
@Sen484 you just described capitalism
Spot on with this one Pie m'boy.
LOL
The real truth is spoken here by Mr. Pie, if you do not see it you are blind.
Johnathan Pie 🥧 sounds like he’s going Vegan 🌱👍
It's the intelligent thing to do these days. He's absolutely right about how the meat industry corrupts PR for their own benefit, whilst putting the most horrendous chemicals into meat just to keep it red looking in the wrapper. That said, most people will blindly ignore it and carry on until the heart failure from cholesterol or cancer from chemicals. Much like smoking.
So in the end who gives a shit what the stupid do to kill themselves. Evolution isn't it.
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I thought he was standing outside The White House!
GET THE DAMN TORIES OUT!!
Like if you agree 👍💰😡
Ya cause that'll fix it 🙄
Get Nigel Farage in
@Jago Yelland
Labour first.
Yeah! Kick em out and bring UKIP in!
Time for anarchy
Excellent accurate commentary Mr. pieman
Cum
Nice.
Laude?
The man just keeps getting better and better.
Too early
You're absolutely right about Amazon. I heard that their workers have to pee in bottles because they will loose their job to someone else if they take a piss break. Honestly, I don't care about my one day Amazon delivery if this it the price we pay for it. fuck that!
Not bought anything from Amazon for years, it's really not that difficult
Took put Amazon Prime to get something quick intending to cancel. Forgot and was charged £7.99 for next month. 18 days into my unused first paid month I filled in the cancel form and was offered a refund too and took it! Hooray for Amazon!
"When injustice becomes justice resistance becomes every Americans duty to throw off all oppressors foren or domestic"
Thomas Jefferson...
Spot on as always
" I just don't like water out of a tap " 😂😂
I'm going to have to watch this one a second time to process the whole thing.
Way of the world! WORD!
This trend cannot continue forever!
We must do something - anything - to stand up in defence of the exploited. We are living in a world of injustice. Luckily, there is still hope for humanity. Pie for President!