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The Offshoring of Big Blue: How IBM Became India’s IBM

IBM once represented the pinnacle of American engineering and managerial excellence. Today, it employs more people in India than in the United States and ranks among the S&P 500’s “Low-Wage 100.”
Its CEO, Arvind Krishna, still gives the company a distinctively American influence, hauling in the largest compensation package in the Low-Wage 100 at $38.0 million, or 765 times the company’s median pay of $49,630.

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‘Hannah Montana’: GM’s Chief People Reduction Officer

Reports that General Motors has adopted a controversial employee-ranking system that Microsoft, Ford, Goodyear, and other companies abandoned years ago have triggered widespread criticism.
Meet Mary Barra’s Montana ranch hand overseeing GM’s HR practices.

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The $40 Trillion Scam: How U.S. Debt Benefits the Rich

Uncle Sam’s national debt surpassed $40 trillion in recent days, and America now spends more servicing that debt than it does on national defense. History shows that many once-great empires collapsed after debt service eclipsed defense spending.
What should alarm and anger everyday Americans are the bipartisan policies responsible for this crushing debt and how the wealthiest Americans ultimately benefit.

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Disrupting Uber: A Blueprint for Democratic Socialists

Silicon Valley sold Uber as a technology revolution.
A recent Government Accountability Office report documents it has become the new poster corporation for taxpayer subsidized low-wage labor.
Some thoughts on how Democratic Socialists could disrupt the company that best embodies the excesses of unfettered capitalism.

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Uber’s Tony West and The Passing of #MeToo

Remember #MeToo?
A New York Times investigation found that female lawyers representing Uber questioned women suing the company over alleged sexual assaults about their clothing, drinking, childhood trauma, sexual histories, and even whether they were wearing underwear on the night they were assaulted.
The executive ultimately responsible for Uber’s legal strategy is Tony West, the former senior Obama Justice Department official who oversaw the DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women and later played an influential role in Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.

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The ChatGPT Consumer Protection Agency

The focus on AI is overwhelmingly how artificial intelligence will change work. Virtually no attention has been paid to the technology’s potential to become the most powerful consumer protection tool ever created.
Thank you ChatGPT for sparing me a $720 subscription headache.

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SAIC, China’s Humiliation of GM & Capitalist Greed

Ignorance is bliss. Otherwise, more Americans might be alarmed to learn how General Motors became dependent on the state-controlled Chinese automaker it once taught to build world-class vehicles.

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The Flies on Trump’s Oval Office Walls

How many flies are buzzing around the Oval Office walls? Apparently enough to reconstruct top-secret meetings, presidential frustrations, and internal debates in remarkable detail.

The more alarming question is why corporate journalistic curiosity is so selective.

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Michigan AG Dana Nessel’s Jewish History Lesson

Jewish history is filled with progressive movements that Jews helped champion—only to ostracize them later.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is the latest example.

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