Wal-Mart is donating $500K to food banks. They have 4,600 stores, so they're donating less than $110 per store.
They are seriously cheap fucks. Brookshire Grocery, which has about 200 stores, is donating half a million.
If you donated a load of groceries to a food bank, the chances are that you, proportionately, did more to help people needing food than did Wal-Mart.
Keep in mind that SNAP, the ACA and Medicare work also as subsidies to labor exploiters like Wal-Mart, which thereby don't need to pay a living wage to their workers.
Meanwhile, OpenAI, which is backed by billionaires and large tech giants, wants the government to back their loans, so they will have nothing at risk. (OpenAI lost about $12 billion last quarter.)
Sam Altman read the room and realized that asking for a few hundred billion in loan guarantees wasn't a good sell when tens of millions of Americans are going hungry, so he walked that back.
For now. Corporations and oligarchs always seem to want the government to guarantee their shit, while deriding those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Socialism for the rich, same as it ever was.
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They are all afraid that when the Ai bubble will pop like the .com one did.
ReplyDeleteIts underfunded and over valued. When it pops the it will be an interesting
day.
Eck!
Wal-Mart is offering a Thanksgiving meal package again this year and Trump is claiming it is proof that he has lowered food prices. However, in comparison to last year, the turkey is smaller, there are fewer items, the pre-made pie from last year is now ingredients to make it yourself, etc.
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He's such a liar and conman.
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Ever worked at a food bank?
ReplyDeleteI have.
When the people (7 out of 10 or so) show up for their food in a year old Lexus, with a couple thousand dollars in gold around their necks and on their ears, each holding a $12 Starbucks, and the woman has a brand new set of nails, it kinda makes you believe that they could make better choices about where they spend their money so they won't need the Free Shit.
I have no doubt that there are many people who really depend on the food banks for their meals, but most of them also make really bad choices about where they spend their money. Poverty is often a choice.
I have and I've worked at an animal shelter. People do make bad choices. Some are grifters.
DeleteBut making people go hungry to teach them a lesson sounds rather evil.