#corporations are evil

[swan2swan]

Ryan Potter took to Instagram to explain why he's not returning to voice his character in the certain-studio-made animated spin-off of a dinosaur franchise distributed on a streaming platform:

And honestly, that makes sense.

My assumption is that he requested that the returning cast be paid as if it were Season 3 of the show (assuming 4 and 5 were Season 2, and that the first show wasn't contracted as a lump group). But we're all familiar by now with the legalese of "If you change the title, it's a new show, not a renewal!", and clearly Ryan didn't want to play that game.

Furthermore, obviously getting all three corporations involved in this show's production to bow to that was just too much work and too impossible a demand, so he walked.

Paul, Raini, Sean, and Kausar are all still tied enough to these roles/have free enoigh schedules that they could use this to dig in further. As for...Darren? I think that's new Kenji?...he's already doing Blue-Eye Samurai, so signing up for this project probably checks another box off of his Netflix contract. And Jenna, well...Netflix works for HER now.

But hopefully, moves like Ryan's can bring awareness to the dangers of Synthesized Speech, and further pushes in the union can lead to better pay.

And hopefully the other VAs can come to a con sometime so I can give them money for signatures!

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

You get what you deserve, CEOs are just as replaceable if more so then workers. I mean there's only one CEO per company so it's way easier. In fact why don't we do away with capitalism as a whole and automated most of the economy as possible? We deserve to seize the means of production and do with it what we want.

[amarhismoongoddess]

The truth is Starbucks doesn’t want homeless people in their retail locations, that’s why they don’t want people sitting or using the bathroom anymore “for free”. Instead, they’re pretending it’s something it’s not, with the CEO stating he’s trying to bring back a “coffee house community feel” or something like that.

All of your corporations could literally band together and lobby to have homelessness completely eradicated in this country. You are the ones who get the most aid and tax breaks when you’re basically built up Gods bullying us minions. You’re not even companies anymore you’re entities. Give people something back. You don’t want homeless “hanging” in your stores then I’m sure you can hire them, start some sort of education program or lobby in the major cities you’re in for better alternatives.

Alternatively stop giving this place and places like it your money. They’re trying to take everything away even 3rd spaces out of greed. And we know how racist they are.

[erik-powery-for-america]

WHAT HAPPENED TO BERNIE SANDERS?

[nando161mando]

Corporate welfare at its finest: Tyson Foods fixes wages and still gets government handouts. Oh, and let’s not forget their factory farms allow bird flu to keep spreading. It’s time to #TalkAboutTyson

Tyson has been reporting increasing profits while getting millions in government awards ($115.3M in Q4 2024 according to USAspending.gov) and fixing both prices and wages for their workers to be as low as possible.

Meanwhile, they cull millions of chickens and the fact they get bailed out by our taxpayer dollars means they have no incentive to change their disgusting, overcrowded factory farm conditions where diseases can flourish.

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[shinmothra13returns]

Exploited and Abandoned: A Worker’s Story of Corporate Greed

These less than human people will toss you under the bus if you criticize or don't do as they say. Heartless modern slavery.

[lenorayoder]

so glad spotify fired their employees and replaced them with ai that takes songs i've already put in playlists and regurgitates them back at me in a slightly different order. what a lovely service.

[itsseriouslyridiculous]

there are a lot of news stories where a corporate whistle blower is found dead and the police say it's suicide.

I don't think it's suicide. I think the corporations pay someone to make their problem go away.

it is so suspicious for someone who is providing information to die when there are court cases going on

[eatingtherich-amenu]

NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe

Has been cried by employers for over a hundred years and has never been true.

People like to work. Every Universal Basic Income test every run has shown people continue to work when given ‘free’ money and there is an endless list of benefits aside from income to being employed. However, primarily and usually, people's driving factor to work is income. The employee is selling their time, skills and energies to the employer. And the employer wants that as cheaply as possible. There is a direct conflict for the employer of wanting to not do the work themselves and not wanting to pay someone else to do the work. They also usually remember doing the job themselves and what they were paid then stays as a fair value in their minds, despite it being years or decades prior. 

People want to work. People like to work. It’s beneficial for social, cultural, emotional, physical, mental and other reasons. It builds pride, develops a sense of identity, helps grow communities and engages physical and mental energies. 

What people don’t want is to be taken advantage of or treated poorly. This is not a workforce issue, this is an abuse issue. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a fair wage, then you don’t have a successful business. Other people do not owe you their time and abilities just for you to be able to call yourself a business owner.

“Basically: there’s too much stick, and not enough carrot. “The social contract is breaking down. It’s not working,” writer James Ball said on a recent episode of the New Statesman podcast. “Work doesn’t pay. You can be in professions and you can’t get a house. We haven’t had a pay rise, collectively as a nation, since 2007. People are doing everything ‘right’ and not getting the living standards of their parents at their age.” As Ball suggests, the financial crash has had long-lasting consequences: as the Resolution Foundation reported in 2019, young people’s pay and prospects have been forever “scarred” by the events of 2008. Additionally, new research from the RSA has found that 63 per cent of young people in full-time work experience financial precarity, rising to 79 per cent of those receiving universal credit.

Eve Livingston is a journalist and author of Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions. “Throughout young people’s lifetimes, work has paid less and less and conditions have worsened as successive governments have cut protections and dismantled union power,” she says. “In that context, it’s no surprise that young people are questioning the value of work or don’t see the point in doing it at all – if you know that work won’t pay for you to have any quality of life then there might seem to be little point in doing it just for the sake of it.”Source: Young people don’t want to work. Now what? | Dazed

[1theneighborhoodcoffeeaddict1]

"People will be given justice, or they will take vengeance" - YouTube comments section.

[centercitychronicals]

Guys, hear me out. And this is a big big hear me put here... well kink shame the supreme court and corporations that are dumping sewage into our waterways.

I know kink shaming is wrong and we shouldn't do it, but I really do think if we started calling them out by name and with pics, about them being into scat, they may just stop.

Think about it; a bunch of us saying they want dookie in the water so they can drink it without shame, might just get the job done faster than petitions and in person protesting. Because if they aren't into that and find it really gross, they won't want to have that as the thing their famous for.

Like, do you guys see the vision here? Even most people into scat talk about it while anon, because it's a taboo thing. But if Fox News reported about xyz ceo or member of congress, or the Supreme Court was forcing their scat fetish on the public... I think they would try to fix their image and actually stop the sewage nonsense.

It'll be like the sonic bullying, but better

[obsessed-with-the-bitches]

Business execs want people to forget a very specific fact so I'm gonna remind everyone right here, right now:

EVERY REGULATION ON THE BOOKS WAS WRITTEN IN BLOOD AND FOUGHT FOR BY PEOPLE

If you ever think: well that doesn't need to be a rule, you're wrong. It's there because someone did it at least once and someone (possibly many someones) died.

For examples of this, look up the New York Shirtwaist Factory Fires or the Radium Girls. Or so many other examples.

REGULATION SAVES LIVES.

Never forget. Never forgive. Never stop blaming corporations and greedy businessmen.

Anyone with a milk allergy needs to be on high alert. In the midst of a flurry of ongoing food recalls, the FDA has updated its initial recall of a handful of Cal Yee Farms' chocolate products to the highest risk level. Originally, the FDA announced a recall of numerous Cal Yee Farm products because they may have contained undeclared milk, soy, wheat, sesame, FD&C #6, and/or almonds. The recall has now been elevated by the FDA to the most serious level of recall, Class 1, for only a few of the affected products: the company's dark chocolate almonds, dark chocolate apricots, and dark chocolate walnuts because the chocolates contained undeclared milk.

[shinmothra13returns]

13 Signs Working Hard No Longer Pays

Hard work only gets you an early grave.

[highsummonermercar]

Do people really prefer a cashless society? In this era where people constantly use cards and are not aware of issues such as the Playstation Network going down and the Barclays bank app issue in Feb 2025, it's glaringly obvious we can't be a cashless society when corporations can go down and we can lose everything digitally.

Please have cash with you in case of emergency if you are locked out of your bank accounts or can't access media you bought digitally. It's very obvious what's going to happen with these greedy companies in the near future.

[victusinveritas]

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.