Political Meme Thread 21.9.5 Endwalker

8 according to this story https://www.reuters.com/markets/com...-kentucky-after-barrage-tornadoes-2021-12-13/

A small price to pay for profit.

Rule of Acquisition# 211. Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success... don't hesitate to step on them.

And the company almost certainly had life insurance policies on the employees, with the company as the beneficiary, so it’s actually possible they turned a nice profit.

I am familiar with having life insurance on important members of the company administration, and there is also liability insurance for employee deaths on property and at work, but life insurance policies on your low level employees are not a thing as far as I am aware.

When I ran my businesses I had to consider insurance for certain employees and owners who may have had skills or input that would cause a business loss if they died or were sick. Normally that sort of thing is reserved for the highest level people in the company.

Even if they did have some sort of insurance for those people, the families should be thankful because that is where the money is coming from when the lawsuits get decided. I am assuming keeping these people at work, and the building not withstanding the impact is going to make the company and property owners liable, and this is why you have insurance.

Walmart was doing it up until at least 2000. Big companies like Wallyworld get a nice tax deduction for taking out such policies on their employees, and then collect the benefit when the person dies.

According to the tax code of the US corporate life insurance payments should not be deductible if the policy benefits the recipient who is not the insured or their family. That may be a change that occurred around that time. Even your article seems to say the practice is open to lawsuits and isn't done as much anymore because the courts opened up those policies to the relatives.

You really think that folks who died making $8/hr have families that can afford to hire a lawyer?

Going by the article you cited they had lawyers and a lawsuit. Did you read the article you cited? Oh, and some lawyerrs will work for a percentage of the winnings if they feel they can win something. So yes, if you have a possibility of a settlement that a lawyer can leach off of yes poor people can get a lawyer. It does not even have to be a lot of money as many lawyers know insurance companies, like the ones who make lifge insurance policies, often settle for smaller sums to avoid court battles.

I guess the short answer is: are you fuckling kidding? of course they can get a lawyer.

I am not saying it is perfect or good, but if a lawyer can get paid they will come running.

Class action lawsuits exist.

And? I doubt if an ambulance chaser shows up and specifically mentions the subject, the survivors will think to sue over any insurance policies.

I don't understand why he had to go sit down. It's a valid question - and the same goes for Klingons. I know Trek has had a couple episodes with Klingon, Ferengi, and Cardassian scientists, but ... still, you gotta wonder.

Because it's implying the US does those things but its citizens "just get on with their day and don't think about it".

Ah. So, Americans are Cardassians. I, personally, would view Americans as Ferengi as we are obviously failing at the whole conquering thing.

Well, your position on women's rights is slowly regressing to the "can't wear clothes or own property" stage, sure.

Like burning down a library in the name of "social justice."

You mean like when Christians did that in Alexandria?

Refresh me on the history of that one. I vaguely recall that the library burning was accidental? Been a while since I read about it.

Which burning do you mean? It was torched several times.

I think the final time, when most of what was in it was lost? Like I said, it's been a long time since I read about this.

by 642 AD, there were many libraries in many cities that rivaled the library of Alexandria. When Muslims captured Alexandria in 642, they burned anything that had "anything untrustworthy' in it - the same thing Christians did when they captured Alexandra.

In 48 BC, when Julius Caesar burned Alexandria, his intention was to burn the docks, but it spread to the library.

Ah, this must be what I was thinking of.

Somebody needs to get on that quick.

Sure would permanently cure a case of Covid.

Guess what:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/anti-5g-quantum-pendants-are-radioactive/

Have a hankering for ribs?