This link is probably better suited to the Stupid Thread, but here’s a pretty excellent and fairly on-topic special.
I will never get over Americans talking about our billionaire class as if they’re our surrogate daddies or friends or shining examples of hard work in capitalism, as if one can do actual “hard work” for or “earn ever penny” of a billion dollars. If you dare say anything slightly irreverent about them, like maybe one of them is having a bad hair day, you very well could be told you want communism, you’re jealous, and didn’t do anything with your life, and/or asked, “Did you create jobs?”
They look upon us with contempt and as dirt people.
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I don’t feel this is a quality uniquely inherent to billionaires.
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It isn’t.
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Nice videos BTW. I’ve been watching the channel.
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Thanks! Training has really taken off with my nutrition figured out.
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The super-rich and the poor have much more in common than they do with the middle classes.
Only in the case of the former their vices are an “eccentricity” while in the case of the latter the very same vices are supposedly the reason for their economic woes.
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Im aware of the top-down paradigm, but I don’t explain it in detail because it involves meanie talk.
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This is spot on, btw.
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He is wrong, of course, and it’s because he doesn’t understand, by virtue of not being of Mediterranean heritage, the connection between culture and society in the places (like Ancient Greece) where democracy was born.
He is descended from people who believed in feudalism so his mind is incapable of understanding the temperament and reasoning of Mediterraneans.
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That’s lazy.
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I remember attending a renaissance theater play with a perplexed American cousin on a visit. She was deeply confused about the plot and characters and the conversation went like this:
“So the horse thief and smuggler, he’s the villain, right?”
“No, he’s the hero”
"And the other guy, who stole a purse of gold coins and spent them on high end prostitutes, he’s the villain of the play?
“Nope, he’s also the hero”
“Well who’s the villain then?”
“The German merchant”
“But why?”
“Because he’s…um…hardworking?”
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Actually we had a long debate where I informed you multiple times of things you didn’t remotely understand about how immigration works in America. You still don’t understand it and your version is essentially things will be bad when white people aren’t the majority which is going to likely happen even if we full stopped immigration.
I’ve never advocated for no immigration policy on this forum. Merely pointing out idiotic statements like no more immigrants or immigration is anti American or whatever noise.
Not really. As pointed out numerous times in the other thread numerous industries are reliant on the labor. We frequently have labor shortages even with immigrants. The idea that these people are keeping Americans from finding jobs isn’t correct. And are we actually better off when farms die because no one works them? How about other industries?
As for the handful of scumbags I couldn’t agree more. And yet every time someone mentions taxing these people, letting people unionize, etc it’s something something communist Marxist globalist socialist bilderberg or whatever other nonsense these people use to describe everything.
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Sounds like you could make a BLM version of the play.
There are currently approximately 2 million manufacturing jobs available
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No you can’t because the main characters are intrepid, charming assholes, and not tiresome, semi literate race hustlers of very limited intellect peddling Marx quotes they’ve pick up from a meme.
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It’s insane right now! We can’t get people to work. If this doesn’t get turned around soon were going to see prices skyrocket and a serious shortage of goods.
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I know of dozens of manufacturing job openings in the $15-$20 dollar an hour range, just in my rather small and immediate regional manufacturing circle here in the part of America that’s fisting Canada.
My good friend advocates for an organization called “The Poor People’s Campaign” that is active all over the fist. They have a long list of demands, chiefly centered around demanding taxpayer funding for programs and policies that have a bad track record of lifting populations out of poverty. $15 an hour minimum wage is one of those policies, as is nearly every other government hand-out you can imagine.
I would be really curious to know how many job interviews the Poor People’s Campaign is arranging to fill the ever-increasing number of entry-level jobs that need filling, nearly all of which pay living wages well over $15 an hour. A number of manufacturers and logistics hubs in my area have been doing drive-by hiring events with minimal standards, struggling to find people who want to work for a decent wage. Bath Iron Works, the Wal-Mart Distribution Center, and almost every small-to-mid-size manufacturer I’ve spoken to in the last couple of years can’t find people who want to do the basic materials handling, machine operation and assembly work that it takes to learn how to take on more responsibility in a business like that…
Under normal circumstances the argument would be “tough shit, pay your people more”, but it is very hard for small and mid-sized businesses to compete against free government money with no strings attached.
Who would have ever imagined that? That’s a pair of dots nobody could have possibly connected without hindsight. I can’t understand why people would rather get sky money with no strings attached instead of working 40 hours or more per week for a few hundred dollars more.
Nobody could have made that prediction. Talk about an un-hittable curveball. Nobody’s knocking down a 7/10 split like that. Predictions like that are like a full-court shot behind two seven foot tall defenders. Walter Payton can’t return that kind of on-side kick for a touchdown. Wayne Gretzky can’t score a penalty shot against five goalies. Even Buster Douglas has a puncher’s chance against Mike Tyson, but that’s only because his ear didn’t smell as good as Evander Holyfield’s.
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I dunno if you mean something like this.
Almost no shots fired, but political framework did change, directly and indirectly, in a few countries.
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