In 1945 corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 perfect. In 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it's about two percent.
Ever wonder why big car companies pay two percent tax while the guys on the assembly line pay forty?
I guarantee you the interrogation staff at UNATCO will not be as forebearing as I am.
Based.
Two Percent Tax is on its way back to the people, and you can't do a damn thing to stop it!
>In 1945 corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 perfect.
good question
> In 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it's about two percent.
nigga that was more than a century ago; you're talking about agricultural society vs high tech industry. by the way deus ex got it all wrong here: corps love freelancing because it lowers down the job price, especially with shitskins having access to internet and prevents any possibility of unionizing. more and more people are gonna be (((self employed))) because (((outsourcing))) is highly lucrative
the entire game is just some basic corruption shit and worse parts of joe rogan podcast.
Imagine being this retarded.
except send you back to the people, in a bodybag
You came all the way to Paris to tell me that?
what does any of that conspiratard shit have to do with bob page manufacturing a plague and selling the cure for it
>tax the big car company 40 percent
>they move their facilities outside of your country
>now there's no assembly line and guys pay zero percent tax
problem solved
THATS CONSOLIDATION
I want to post something like "do you have a single fact to back that up" but Deus Ex has become prescient and even outdated in some respects. Corporations have more power than the government, man.
That's actually the main thing for me, because biopunk is the most logical outcome of all cyberpunk subgenres; we're facing extreme demographic explosion in Africa and India, so the shitskins and niggers are bound to drown what's left of continental stability in the next 20 years. Corps love that and the politicians don't mind because you get a numerous and loyal group of voters while everything EXCEPT the gated communities is falling apart.
The only way to counter this would either to have a government that /pol/ would approve of and that would make Hitler look like an altruist
or
a manufactured virus that Savitri Devi would be proud of.
that was the point of the original as well, page isn't a politician he's a CEO
dang bro are u some kind of genius? i can only imagine the enormous intellect required to post useless interjection nobody asked for in a video game thread about quotes for a 20 year old game on an anime website
> Corporations have more power than the government, man.
No shit. Ever heard of East India Company? Hanseatic League? The Medicis?
>Laputan Machine
>Im not a machi-
>"Sticks and Stones"
Jesus JC, you literally just turned a man's brain into jello, murdered him cold-blooded as he was powerless to fight it, and you tell a one liner pun?
>good question
What a shame.
>while everything EXCEPT the gated communities is falling apart
I'm sure this is a problem we can correct
The Rockefellers and the Rothschilds aren't famous for their political parties, senpai.
You ever hear those stories out of Joburg in SA? how they drive out in convoys led by armored trucks to work? how entire skycrapters are hollowed out, filled with trash and squaters live in them like giant vertical caves?
Are you aware of the current episdemic in Matembo?
this game was so optimistic thinking that it would take until 2052 to reach the breaking point
This is why they're coming for your GEP guns.
When due process has failed we really do live in a world of terror
Whoa, cool it with the antisemitism.
>only one American candidate meaningfully discussing wealth disparity
Don't worry! Just keep poor blacks, baizuo, and sentients all angry at each-other, and as long as nobody makes informative posts on social media, they'll never notice who's really behind it.
I AM THE PEOPLE!
Tell em bernie bro
yeah, Yang is based
Two wrongs don't make a right, though.
Neither do two wongs make a white
>refuse to let said company sell in your country or levy tariffs so high that it's economically infeasible to import
>factories come back just for the privilege of being able to sell in your country because it still makes economic sense even with a moderate level of taxation
I've exactly zero fucks to give about idpol agendas, but there seem to be only two ways for this:
1. Big businesses are an organic part of the civilization at large. I.e. symbiotic relationship at worst, an organ as part of a whole organism at best.
2. Big businesses turn into corporations, demand personhood, care only about their own growth no matter the cost. The common theme here being they treat the rest of the world as food or hostile entities. This is how parasites or tumours behave in relation to an organism they inhabit.
And if they dont come back someone else will.
This isn't what happens.
>FDR's pseudo socialist New Deal shit gets reversed
>wtf they're taking over
He was a moderately enjoyable individual.
The parasitic tumor comparison is really apt. The brain now exists only to feed the stomach.
>only one candidate
>Bernie
>Yang
kek, dark and psychic forces already trying to turn us towards tribal politics
The wealth increase of the big guys is in capital gains, which aren't realized until you cash out
If everyone cashed out at once, the value would crash, like when the latest crypto bubble popped
>America's 50 year run of prosperity, equal opportunity and boomerism curiously coincide with an above 50% tax on the rich.
Nah, it's the working poor's fault
Are you kidding? things were only really that good during the 50s, the 60s and 70s saw huge amounts of debt and economic decay.
Guillotines soon?
based idiot poster
The huge period of American economic and urban decline matches up with the high level of taxation though.
Numbah one : That's terror
Numbah TWO : That's terror
JC doesn't even give a shit about taxes. He just whacks a vending machine open and eats the stuff that falls out.
consolidation
Well done!
Smells like leftie propaganda to me, personally. "muh evil corporations muh evil rich people muh evil capitalism"
t./pol/ack who has never actually played the game
it's bed time for americans, don't you have a 9-5 you have to get up for tomorrow?
Explain?
He'd been talking all that good shit all the time you were fucking around the grounds, acting like his swinging dick was the biggest game in town now that he had his precious skysat feed.
JC told 'em straight up different. Blew the man's fucking mind with two little words and a catchphrase. That's what niggers sitting in the dark with a flamethrower and pussy tears get for that kind of noise.
"Smells" like you have a memebrain
You will soon have your god, and you will have created it with your own hands.
Licking corporate boot to own the marxists
Let's ride this shit into the fucking ground
Number 1: That's terror.
Number 2: That's terror.
>Implying corporations don't fucking love socialism as long as they can act globally.
You killed his Cyborg Waifu Anna, the least you can do is fight him with honor.
what do the numbers mean, googling yield curve doesn't explain the gist of it
when the yield curves inverts usually it means a recession is a brewing
it just did it again this month so...
Corporations love any system where they can get a nice exclusive contract with the state. Socialists are too fucking dumb to understand that, corporations are very much like microbes, the more you try to control them, the more you create a bigger, meaner, stronger version of it, resistant to all your safeguards.
What's the date diapason?
dumb fucking socialists, why can't they understand that corporations actually enjoy being taxed
Navarre only had herself to blame. She'd been pushing you from the start to be a cold-blooded psycho.
Her death should properly be counted as a suicide.
The numbers at the bottom represent pay-out dates for treasury bonds, 3 months, 5 years etc. The numbers on the right are the yield percentage (how much interest is paid out on the bond)
Look up Treasury Bond Yield Curve
you know you don't have to kill either of them, it's completely optional
It's almost as if cyberpunk as a genre was trying to warn us about neo-liberalism or something
more like liberalism in general, or honestly just capitalism full stop
We are in for some shit lads, Prep.
That's fair if you're talking about more radical writers in the genre.
But most of the popular stuff is written by idealistic liberals (failing to acknowledge liberalism would naturally lead to neo-liberalism/imperialism/etc) who were just afraid of the growing role of corporations in what used to be considered affairs of the state along with the loss of national identity etc.
It's possible to save that guy without killing her?