Exchange between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz 

in order to become a billionaire you have to be sociopathic, there is no billionaires that didn't achieve their status without exploitation

It helps!

Obama ordered a drone strike on a wedding in Afghanistan in order to kill one suspected terrorist. The result was dozens of dead innocent people including children. Don't talk to me about sociopaths until you realize both sides are chalk full of them.

Statistically true. Sociopathy is exhibited by 5% of the general population, but around 80% of CEOs. As such, their positions are obtained through unethical behavior rather than merit, which greatly harms the workers, weakens their companies, and damages the country as a whole.

@Trance #1fan A *sociopath, but yes.

Ever wonder why?

@@thetasworld margins. they rather spend $1.0 million on legal fees than pay their employees $1.1 million in wages. its what capitalism does because the whole point is to get the most out of the least overhead possible. its entirely sociopathic and deliberately ignorant towards inflation, costs of living, soaring rent prices and what would generally seem fair to the average worker. then of course we're supposed to buy into the lie that the so called "Free market" will regulate itself and customers and employees will simply gravitate towards businesses that do better business - but we all know thats complete fucking bullshit, just like the lie that trickle down economics works and we should be handing out more tax breaks to billionaires. its just plain old exploitation, just dressed up as "the american way," in order to promote selfish individualism and divisive rhetoric.

its still cheaper that way.

Because they don't deserve it. They're not saving the world. THEY POUR COFFEE

They are not as valuable as you yourself as a customer would pay them.

They are all psychopaths that need to be parentally terminated by society.

@@rsr789 instead of bitch-ing and moaning and being a pathetic bottom feeder, how about you start your own business, let's see how that pans out.

Its NLRB judge so I mean take their decisions with a grain of salt

when ur a billionaire, nothing matters

That's the problem with corporate organizations and the legal system. They can pretend that those are allegations as long as their legal team has enough money to appeal to the decision until Supreme Court. It allows them to break the laws for a couple of years (the legal process is extremely long), hope that a judge at some point in the process will be on their side and, if not, they will pay a huge fine that isn't high enough to cover all the profits that they wouldn't have made if they followed the law in the first place.

@@YanBrassard That is basically the problem of every human. "Prove me guilty and until then, I'm innocent", even though, deep down, that person knows he is guilty. What people who resort to this fail to understand is that this behaviour plays against them in the long term. Once guilt is accomodated by law, people will see how they refused to accept it in the first time, and people will lose confidence in them.

@@josedelbosque7559 Exactly. If he is not admitting his fault until he is condemned, people will have trust issues in the brand and it will harm them more than anything else. Maybe the Starbucks CEO relies on the fact that even with a court fine their customers will remain faithful to the brand. I do not know why people prefer Starbucks over independent coffee shops (that are usually offering a better quality at the same price), but in every country that I visited (Paris, New York, Istanbul and I'm currently in Taipei) people are making lines in front of Starbucks stores when there is a crazy good independent coffee shop one or two streets away... I think that the random customer is simply lazy and will go the brand that they know instead of searching on Google for a nearby coffee and see all the alternative options.

Yes he did say that. That’s how blatant it is

At this point 300 stores have voted unions out of the 30,000 … the unions have ASKED for each store to bargain on their own independently. Not Starbucks.

😓😓

​@@froth7133 Yes but you don't need to meet EVERY STORE in person. That's just woefully inefficient. Teams calls and encrypted video channels are perfectly fine. We are negotiating contracts, not renovating a store.

This is the fault of the union

A judge can't tell someone how to run their business. Period

@@scottburns2600 So then businesses have a right to make people wear masks, even if the government doesn't require it? Oh wait, despite all the moaning, they do.

@@scottburns2600 lol that’s funny because that’s literally what the federal government can do

@@scottburns2600 it’s called regulations and it literally happens all the time in every sector.

@@scottburns2600 Ah, another theorist

Henry Ford started the 40 hour 5 day work week, not unions

@@ericolsen18 health benefits? Overtime pay? Vacation time? 401 k? Safer working conditions? Pensions? The end of child labor (which BTW republicans are trying actively dismantle in red states at this moment)? I didn't think so. Sit tf down.

I’ll give you this. In the early part of the 20th century unions had a role to play. Then they got corrupt and frankly idiotic. They got to a point where they were dangerous parasites on industry. A major airline pilots union about 15 years ago struck for a rate of oat tge business model couldn’t support. They refused to compromise. The airline went bankrupt. Now not only the pilots but everyone else at that company was out of work. That’s unions in a nutshell and has been for 75 or more years. Basically mafia type extortion racketeers.

Hard work makes the middle class

@@Harry-Sachs no it does not. Without unions you'd be slaving away for 5 dollars an hour, no benefits, no weekends. That's how capitalism works.

Sanders? Yeah.

Which I agree with 100%.

No problem. I agree that they should just quit, but they need meaningful alternatives.

No problem. I agree that they should just quit, but they need meaningful alternatives.

No problem. I agree that they should just quit, but they need meaningful alternatives.

Whether he said it or not, its a true and fair statement. Employee/employer relationship is created via a CONTRACT. We both agree with its content and conditions. If I dont like it, I should leave and find one I like. What drives salary up is the desire for a company to contract the greatest, not "anybody". Be the greatest and you'll be well paid. Be mediocre,and you should not. Only laws protect mediocricy.

As long as the rich never admit to breaking laws, then, that's it. They didn't. End of story. Those with the money and power WIN. Those without these things LOSE. Winners and losers; nothing more.

well he's rich so

@@ReverendSnedley what’s your job ?

@@dasrhinegold What's yours?

@BRT Breaking federal labor laws over 100 times doesn’t make you a trend setter… it makes you a dick.

Depending on how employees are paid, it can be illegal to pay them benefits. Don't ever trust politicians. All they do is lie.

I noticed that too. Should that even be permissible? It could be seen as leveraging a matter of legal importance for commercial benefit.

😂😂

Who doesn't know what Starbucks is or see the logo daily already?

It’s deeper than that dummy

@@creativemindplay So you're saying because everyone knows you're an idiot, your advertising doesn't count as advertising?

When it is a CEO of a 100 team corporation maybe but when you have almost half a million team members I doubt they know each one’s birthday and calls to wish them happy birthdays or knows small details as who was fired and so forth 😉

Are you demanding accountability from a CEO? Who are you? Go ask your local Congressman or Senator to read a damn bill before they vote for it in Congress. They pass these 50,000 page bills and almost every American is a criminal now. Most Congressmen don't even know what's on page 2. That's the real swindle, not some private company CEO who happens to even give 401k and college tuition benefits to the minimum wage employee. Do you know that for every worker wanting to unionize, there's 8 different jobseekers willing to take on the same job without the benefits of the union? (At Starbucks)

@@carlosmesa5077 that’s not what @Nias was saying. When you have issues like Unionization and Union busting, no matter how large, you best believe that the CEO is made aware. You’re intentionally misrepresenting his comment to make it seem insignificant when you knew what he was meaning.

They are like Zeus. They look down at the insects on earth and send down lightning bolts to terrorize them. They don't seem capable of making anyone's life better except their yes men and themselves.

@@carlosmesa5077 I think you're missing the point. Good CEOs understand the actual direction that shit should roll, which is uphill. If someone who manages one of your departments fucks up you as the CEO need to own it. Not just blame someone else.

A tragic BS move.

BS move for sure. Pro franchises are a for profit business, but they are also part civic institutions. Schultz, a billionaire, decided that the City wouldn’t allow the team to be profitable enough for his liking, so he gave the whole entire city the finger and sold them. What a guy…. $ is all he cares about…

Good for him! You can do that too )))

I completely agree...I live near the buffalo store and will continue to boycott any unionized store. I just want a cup of coffee not subsidize a union.

@@TheNewCarryTrade Sure thing, it's nice to support billionaires too instead, they definitely need the money.

​@@TheNewCarryTrade why would you boycott a place where people unionized? Are you a communist?

@@squareinsquare2078 I'm sorry friend. I must have misunderstood your comment. I thought that you were advocating for the free market to set wages and compensation. My bad...Whenever I've felt underpaid, I simply found a different job. That's worked well especially during one of the largest labor shortages in history.

@@TheNewCarryTrade But if everyone did that you'd have no one to serve your coffee...

That's because he's a psychopath with no ethics, morals, or humanity. And his actions demand society terminates him from the ranks of the living.

i know bernie has been doing it for almost 50 years now

That was my first thought.

*Ding ding ding*

I mean how is he supposed to bribe the union leader without employees finding out if the leader demands transparency in negotiations?

Yup

That’s because not only would it help the union’s negotiations but it would also be evidence in any other issue

He will pay more for his workers )))) Sell coffee very cheap 🙈

That’s not always the case, that’s only in a bench trial

Nigel you do NOT know NLRB law. NLRB "judges" are not federal judges. They can't issue contempt, they can't marry you and most importantly they are not approved by the senate. They can't find a person "guilty" of a crime. They are administrative personnel. And cases like this go to "exception" which is similar to an appeal and administrative judge rulings are very often overturned.

Judges issue non-binding opinions all the time.

Tell us you don’t know how things work by actually saying it.

It Stopped in 2008 for me...and I would still boast the question to anyone who could please explain to me where the value is in a $6.00 cup of coffee? Bartenders everywhere would like to know!

Unions have destroyed a lot of companies!

Have you ever started a business and take all the risk? Yes boycott, no one is forcing you to buy premium coffee. Can never figure out why anyone would spend that much for a cup of heated water and beans

Welcome to Captialism, my friend. You don't have to go there, and that is your choice. People aren't forced to work there either. Some of you people should just go move to Cuba!

@@reichbates6548 Having been a union member for more than 30 years, I've only seen jobs saved.

I bet the coffee you drink is hard as fuck. Stygian black no doubt

lol so silly its cringe

Lol imagine if he spoke this bluntly about his views before congress

Disgusting.

That pretty much tells the mindset of this greedy, lying sack of 💩

​@@paulbasaur unions are cringe

It is totally different. Just because a judge says something is moral or legal does not make it moral or legal. Have you not ever heard of Dred Scott???

@@empirecity61 moral is up to you but legally... its literally the definition of legal..

@@empirecity61 he's not talking about morality. He keeps saying they didn't break the LAW when they were already found guilty of breaking the law. Like it was already official.

The NLRB is a totally political organization. They view their mission as promoting unions. They do not feel it is their role is being fair to the employer.

Because they work for The most corrupt employer in the world.

Yes, and that reason is cronyism and corruption in the government.

Yeah, and there’s a reason why McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Arby’s AND STARBUCKS…etc DO NOT!

@@desboukis no I don't think so actually

@superwalkingtours Well, I guess all those companies will soon be unionized 🙃

What laws has he broken? Why hasn't he been arrested?

@@nunyabiz8149 look at what his company has been charged with. Schultz deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his life.

he thinks he is

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Google 'Legal Personhood'

Do you understand what a monopoly is or are you dumb ? It’s not as easy as don’t go to Starbucks. This corporation has worked hard to make sure they are the only option for many people

Free market. Supply and demand !!

But if you boycott Starbucks wouldn't it lead to store closing and people unionizing losing their job or being forced to accept non union pay?

@@EricT01 keep touching your forelock .

LOL.... $7 will skyrocket....The unions will destroy the business then act like their shocked when it closes.

Wait until they unionize. More like $10 drinks. Then you'll go?

@@Packer1290 probably won't buy those either.

bingo. not only at Starbucks!

You can buy 13 oz of Starbucks' Breakfast Blend for roughly $14. That's 72 cups worth of coffee.

I drink Liquor and/or Tap water. Fuck all of em.

You won’t be missed every time I drive by one cars are around the block at the drive through, people need to get their fix.

That's a common refrain but, no, it's not. If you drink the right flavors. Stop into a Dunkin or a Timothy's where the coffee has only two qualities - hot and brown.

@@gheller2261 it’s disgusting burnt dirt

​@@GrapefruitSoundLab I am not against this guy and don't care for Bernie but the coffee is burnt waste by-product.

Just the words union and household put together says everything. You should start your own business that requires multiple employees to show up and follow the company rules to stay afloat, attempt your ass off to make a yearly profit, and possibly (maybe) open a second location a few years later to repeat the original success. Now imagine your employees want to erase your ability to grow your business with their inane tyrannical unionization tactics to the point where you can't even keep the original business you busted your ass for years to keep afloat, and you have to let everybody go and close the business. Boy, those employees sure did themselves and you a favor didn't they? LOCUSTS.

Same with Amazon, I wish we could boycott them, but let's be honest, it's too convenient.

They can go work some other place !! Free market !!

@@LEK-we2hh which they will, gladly do. Nobody wants to work for corporate scum who treat employees like shiz. It's a new era.

what’s your view on the teamsters tentative agreement?

Bernie is a clown

How many people Mr Sanders employ ? Pay them very good ? Socialism = jealousy ! Did you live in a socialist / communist country ? I did !((

That's really the whole purpose of a corporation right? Its a collective with no one person being responsible. Its literally called a Limited Liability Corporation for a reason.

Accountancy 101: the owners and the business are to be considered as separate entities.

Yes. According to the financial risk they take investing in the company.

We have a huge tool if the Democratic Party can pull it off - taxation! We need to form an international coalition to catch and tame these tax evaders.

We used to have those tools. They were called unions.

There are many tools in congress, and many of them don't care about working people.

Or just start a business and play the game instead of be a wagie

“I earned all my money, i had nothing and no help” --Howard Shultz “I don’t like being called a billionaire despite having billions cause I grew up poor and working class in government assisted housing...” --Also Howard Shultz The self described self made men never seem to be 100% self made do they? They always seem to ignore any instance where they took or had help from government and tax payer paid programs, or government and corporate welfare handouts written for them by the lobbyists they pay to bribe those official to write said laws

Yeah, imagine their prices with unionized workers. They'll be priced out of business

@@scottburns2600 Yeah, imagine fair payment and less greed.

@@Antarem yeah like the unions aren't greedy. They have their share of labor bullies too!

Let me set the tone, know what the heck your talking about!

Thar was good

Which hurts the workers the most.

Why ? You realized most of the top corporations in unionized driven states have lost the most corporations the last 3 years and those states are now feeing the effect?

That will lead to store closures and redundancy

If YOU were a CEO you’d do the same.

Sorry, Bernie is a fraud. His schtick is caring about the 'little guy", so he has a platform to pitch. I've dealt with him since he was the mayor of Burlington. He and his family have always been about making money for themselves (look up Burlington College sometime). I think he has a role to play in Washington by ruffling some feathers, but to say he should be the President right now is outrageous. The past 6/7 years in the Capital should make that perfectly clear!

Yeah.. as though the situation is joe shmo employee just happened to get into a conversation with this guy, which happened to be about unions, guy replies with something joe shmo *could* have taken the wrong way...

You've never had a conversation with someone that took what you said the wrong way?

Answer: Nothing of any substance or worth to the company or our society.

You just saw it. To be the sacrificial scapegoat so the corporation can continue unabated.

Not complicated - they keep their companies profitable so that everyone who works for the company can earn a living. It doesn’t happen by accident. We the have the choice to work where we want in this country. If we don’t like the leadership of our employer, we can find somewhere else…even if it’s painful to do so.

I love watching the peasants pretend to be smart. Brings me joy. The starbucks ceo made about 17 million last year. With over 400,000 employees, if you took away the whole ceo salary, each employee would get an extra $42 dollars a year.

No, the frontline workers keep the companies profitable. The CEO keeps the shareholders profitable, there’s a difference.

It’s shitty coffee too!

Super bitter and burnt coffee

@@chrismacdonald102 It's demonstrably not. Millions of people are not buying bad coffee to make a point, or support a company resisting unionization. But by the same token it's no better or worse than alternative, more ethically based sources.

Yeah! How dare workers try to bargain for better wages and conditions as a group?! Workers should starve and work three jobs to make ends meet!

Really? Never? I'm sure you have data to show that

I would have accepted the higher pay/bonuses and unionized asking for more lol

None of which you would have gotten from being in a Union. I've known too many people that were part of a Union who set at home waiting for the Union to find them work but even though they weren't working they still had to keep paying their union dues anyway.

@@jamesreynolds852 name 3

One of the true beauty of America is its "at will" job system and fundamentally the base of its economic power and dynamism. Unions are the opposite of this..... if their current socialist trend empowers Unions , America will become the new latin america

@@ES-ds3mn He can't.

lol have you seen sbux profits lately?

Shut up and drink your mocha frappe

Ah yes first its a higher minimum wage which sends all the labor to giant corporations and now you want unions to destroy everything. Self inflicted wound.

@@orionide4032 ?

It won't Liberal white women will continue to spend $5 for a cup of coffee. The real problem is not Starbucks. It's Bernie not letting the CEO awnser the questions he was asked. Don't you find it funny when the ceo said I would like to respond the Liberal congressman would not let him?

People fear the unknown, and chain stores provide a "known" and "safe" element wherever you may find yourself. It's fulfilling a basic human psychology and very successfully I would say. Now quality... that's a different subject entirely.

Would you prefer he lie?

@@ericanderson8795 except they did break the law. My district held two meetings trying to intimidate workers from unionizing. My friend’s store is suing the district manager for such.

@@justice5657 define intimidate in this context

@@ericanderson8795 Our DM (wont tell you what district) has shut down the unionized stores in the city, they hosted a store meeting with us (the employees) and the DM. They brought up the frustrations of our baristas when labor cuts started happening (despite our increase in profits at our location). He said it’s great that workers have the right to unionize. He also said that it would be out of his control if we did unionize and if we became the third to get closed down.

@@ericanderson8795 it started with the stores unionizing and formulating a contract, to them getting fully shut down.

Union is a quiet partner !

Because he specializes in Marketing! And with all this undue attack on his company by congress he made sure to not let this opportunity go to waste

Because they know who's really in charge.

So you want him censored? Typical. Let me remind you that this is a free country wether you like it or not.

Which mom and pop shops? I haven't driven past one in years.

Many "mom n pops" businesses are more expensive than the franchises they compete with.

@@elirien4264 well yeah, they don’t have the infrastructure to have prices as low as mega corps

Mom and pop shops have lower pay and less benefits. "Fair pay" movements are really about envy

@@sandcastledx well they usually have lower pay and lower benefits because they’re are being run out of business by mega corporations who are trying to establish monopolies

Lmao. A guy who’s literally done nothing. Hasn’t made a single persons life better

@@killap3nguin He's literally making tons of people's lives better right now by enforcing our right to unionize. Just like he fought for civil rights, gay rights, and legislation that helps poor and middle class people since when even most Democrats were openly racist and elitist (yes, some of them still are and hide it). What he didn't accomplish, was blocked by politicians that don't give a shit about the American people. Maybe you don't believe in any of those things, in which case it's not even worth having this conversation. And even so, do you think that trying to make people's lives better and failing is worse than actively harming them like 90% of Congress?

Didn't appear to be squirming to me. Just doesn't want a union. I don't blame him. Work somewhere else if you don't like it. Plenty of jobs out there.

Well, you have a chance to create your own company and let your employees create a union that will hurt shareholders ( yours ) values. Let's see how long will you tolerate that

Something to that… That this aging idiot is taken seriously by any American may mean we deserve him.

What does that have to do with a video about Bernie asking questions?

​@@Facetiously.Esoteric It has to do with Starbucks and their mistreatment of workers and him being the only republican who agreed

Got to Love Bernie! Always standing up for the American Worker vs. Billionaire Corporate People.

@@TihetrisWeathersby Go to the video about him and praise him there instead of trying to make this video about Bernie about a Republican.

@@Facetiously.Esoteric It's a cspan video, who cares