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In Praise of Inefficiency: Should We Serve the Economy or Should It Serve Us?
 It's become a virtual religion among America's CEO class: maximize efficiency no matter what it does to customers, communities, or employees - Inefficiency, it turns out, has considerable upsides. Trader Joe's VP Marketing, Tara Miller, announced on the store's Inside Trader Joe's podcast that they will not be installing self-checkout machines in their stores. Good on them.
"The bottom line here is that our people remain our most valued resource," she said. "While other retailers were cutting staff and adding things like self-checkout, curbside pickup, and outsourcing delivery options, we were hiring more crew, and we continue to do that."
In not using everything available to them to increase efficiency, Trader Joe's is very much the outlier in America. That's because — unless regulated — capitalism will almost always push for maximum efficiency because that's the fastest way to maximize profits.
It's become a virtual religion among America's CEO class: maximize efficiency no matter what it does to customers, communities, or employees.
Read more at HartmannReport.com.
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Law: " 14th Amendment Section 3, July 9, 1868 " No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability".
Hour Two: In Praise of Inefficiency - Should We Serve the Economy or Should It Serve Us?
The wealthy with cushy desk jobs want YOU to work until you're 70
Crazy Alert! Georgia GOP has plan to allow affluent Atlanta neighborhood to secede from Atlanta
Hour Three: Excessive Wealth Disorder, student loan forgiveness, economic reform & taxing the wealthy- Gabriela Sandoval PhD, Executive Director, Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute (EWDi) 
Tweet: " Thank you to everyone who has already responded to "THE DIVIDER," which comes out next week. We're grateful for the positive reaction. Since some have asked, just want to be clear that we withheld no revelations while he was president. (1)" by Peter Baker.
Here's one way to get to one party rule - just "cancel" the democratic party
A shocking new bill proposed in Texas would force internet providers to block access to any website that carries information about abortion medication or tells women how get an abortion.
Tweet of the Day - Hate it when that happens....
Tweet: " Hate when that happens. I was attacked and screamed at in 2018 by an insane woman named Marjorie Taylor Greene. She had no respect for the privacy of me as an 18 year old school shooting survivor or my staff. She was self righteous, insane, and completely out of control." by David Hogg.
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