Worth imo.
Ze brainwashing. It is working on this one. Give him a few more years and heāll be buying gold, bullets and nonperishable food.
Which one?
Socialism?
Government coercion?
Paneraās failed restaurant?
1 Like
Jokes on you. Iām a Costco cult guy. Half my basement is already nonperishables!
This one, but more specifically, the federal government overriding states rights
1 Like
Donāt forget the piles upon piles of poor white boys we sent to dieā¦ none of whom owned slaves. Damn racist country.
Also government coercion wrote slavery into law in the first place, and allowed escaped slaves to be recaptured in āfreeā states.
Not to mention government coercion was used in Jim Crow, segregation etcā¦
I canāt speak for every restaurant/business who has tried this model, but this seems to be the fate of a lot of themā¦interesting what happens when you ignore silly things like, at the very least, charging break-even prices
So heāll be me in the future?
I think you mean the piles upon piles of people the south killed so they could keep owning human beings lol.
That is correct, the govt made an already existing free market practice legal by way of allowing it AND by writing it into law
Kinda still better than the owning people thing
The federal government.
Which is a good argument for why the govt has to force taxes on the populace instead of allowing them to take care of each other on their own.
Keep telling yourself you need to be oppressed. Just one more chain will set you free.
Whoa, whoa, whoaā¦āforce taxes on the populace?ā I think not, brohan. Social Contract. Anything the Government* does has already been consented to because that.
*(I should note that doesnāt necessarily apply to other countries. Sometimes, the U.S. has to use its social contractedness to determine that other countries have invalid social contracts and need fixing)
1 Like
I donāt need to be. But Iām willing to bite that bullet to ensure the selfish pricks around me do āthe right thingā.
Call it forced altruism haha.
I just wish the govt would be more effecient and effective with the programs our tax money supports. But I work with govt officials daily, so I know how that goes haha.
So the story was āsocialist restaraunt failsā and your response is āthis is why we need taxesā. I cannot begin to empathize with your mindset.
There is nothing altruistic about spending other peopleās money that was taken at gunpoint. Especially when a big chunk of that money is taken from unborn future generations with deficit spending and printing money.
I know youāre being toung in cheek, but damn.
1 Like
Actually I was responding to what someone said about that story. I think pay-what-u-want businesses are either stupid, or prey on guilt and social shame to make money.
I think true altruism is too rare to be relied upon. It all boils down to me believing people are basically selfish AF need an outside influence to be āgoodā.
I agree, people are selfish
Will this āoutside influenceā be people? If so, see above.
3 Likes
Yup, we just gotta do our best to put the few good folks in those power roles.
Considering they seemingly do not make money, Iāll bet on the ātheyāre stupidā
You should really have just said ānon-existentā
This is your issue - you think being selfish is ābadā, per se ā¦ what does my motivation matter if the result is serving my fellow man? Thatās what free market is - Iām selfishly pursuing my own ends which help my communityā¦Everyone is motivated by their own self interests ā¦ you think the Government employees you work with are not selfish? Youāre fooling yourselfā¦
Good according to who? Whatās your definition of good? It seems to me that you think itās to force people to give up a portion of their paycheck in order for someone else to spend it āfor the greater goodā ā¦ am I wrong?
3 Likes
Exactly. People suck so letās give a select few, who are generally the worst of us, the power to force us not to suck. Does not compute.
