Guy making $8/hr: the economy is better now
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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Any day now eggs will go back to costing what they did in 1992...
I agree with this take. It's like people have the grocery prices from when they first started living on their own seared into their brains.
Don't call me out like that..
what was that? like $4?
$0.80, something like that.
Dems for decades failed to properly address social inequality, while proudly parading their politically correct talk about "communities", "affirmative action" etc. This is a feel-good talk for their white middle-class demographics, while actual people in actual "communities" felt like animals in a zoo with a bunch of aliens around them figuring out what's the best name to call them. At the same time no meaningful change ever happened.
Trump won Latino votes in Miami. Just think about how much distrust the other side must have built.
Stop blaming the voters. Look into the mirror and ask yourself how could this have happened.
What's really funny about Trump winning Latino votes in Florida is that when surveyed, they went Trump for "the economy". So... my comment stands.
But yes as a Canadian, the results of the US election and the performance of the Democratic party are things I'll personally need to "look in the mirror" about.
Alternatively, I can appreciate how dumb American voters are, as 70 million of them vote to actively make their lives much worse. <3
Just wait for the next elections to hit your country with a right-wing populism like a truck.
It's the same shit all over the developed world. Looking down on people who are upset with the current system and the democracy itself.
Don’t worry. It will trickle down any day now.
Like piss, right?
Right?
Piss trickling down on us would be an improvement
I guess it's slightly better than the old "Horse and Sparrow" name which implies "Eat shit and like it".
That's where that comes from, yes.
600,000 people diagnosed with terminal cancer each year in the US. 800 billionaires. Just saying, they will likely die before they even get sentenced. And it's entirely likely the billionaires own or supported companies that caused that cancer in the first place, or supported medical systems that didn't allow people to properly be screened or treated for cancer.
It's like if Walter White wanted to help others
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Thats the problem with Anarchy is they have resources and you don't so in open warfare they win every time.
You could try to form a large organization pooling resources for a specialized fighting force but...
Oh look, half of the USA just voted alongside the Billionaires. Looks like we're outnumbered.
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Good, these poor poor billionaires need more. I mean it's a goddamn travesty they aren't trillionares!
Geez people how fucking greedy do you need to be to accept a paycheck from these people when working for them? Can't you just be charitable for once and help them become decillionares?
I swear we're so greedy.
This is what the American people voted for. They voted to give their money away to people who don't need it.
We've been warning people of this for more than 8 years now, trying to soften the blow. At some point we gotta realize that protecting these people might not actually be helping, it might just be enabling the grift by providing convenient cover.
Maybe we ought to just step aside and let these voters suffer the full consequences of their actions. Democrats need to learn that unlike them, many people only learn about consequences by experiencing them.
Sure, many others who voted against will suffer the consequences too. What are we going to do about it? This is how democracy is designed to work.
Yup. We all vote on the meal we will eat and lots of folk don't like the week old pumpernickel so won't vote for it and for some reason lots of folks like to vote for the dogshit with ground glass mixed into it because they think its funny to watch other people eat it.
for some reason lots of folks like to vote for the dogshit with ground glass mixed into it because they think its funny to watch other people eat it.
The majority of the political videos showing up on my YouTube feed after the election was just right wingers laughing at "the left."
Their whole identity is hating others.
Interesting they all of a sudden have absolutely zero concerns that our "deep state" will roll in any second now to undo the election
Trump on election night: "MASSIVE FRAUD IN PENNSYLVANIA, POLICE INCOMING!"
He wins big: "teehee, what fraud? I never said that."
Trump is unaccountable, that's apparently his identity. It doesn't matter if he did say or didn't say anything.
Maybe we ought to just step aside and let these voters suffer the full consequences of their actions.
If we could do this without also suffering the full consequences of their actions I'd be all for it.
But at this point, in a hypothetical dystopian future, those voters would be reduced to scavenging in the slums, every public station owned by the GOP, not a Democrat in sight... and they'd still be able to get away with "blaming the liberals" for everything they directly caused right before everyone's eyes.
I've been aghast reading all these comments on like, Nextdoor, of people shaking their heads saying "The left is always the party of divisiveness and violence."
They'll believe anything at this point. They literally can't seem to comprehend the consequences of their votes.
Maybe we ought to just step aside and let these voters suffer the full consequences of their actions.
If we could do this without also suffering the full consequences of their actions I'd be all for it.
But at this point, in a hypothetical dystopian future, those voters would be reduced to scavenging in the slums, every public station owned by the GOP, not a Democrat in sight... and they'd still be able to get away with "blaming the liberals" for everything they directly caused right before everyone's eyes.
I've been aghast reading all these comments on like, Nextdoor, of people shaking their heads saying "The left is always the party of divisiveness and violence."
They'll believe anything at this point. They literally can't seem to comprehend the consequences of their votes.
It seemed really obvious, like, I had this thought before the election was called that I should start grabbing some stonks because the uncertainty dipped everything for a minute.
But I don't have money for stocks right now, I'm simply not in the position. (Okay I own like one, for my favorite (not starbucks) coffee chain lol)
And then everything jumps massively after his "win", because all the corpos are probably anticipating massive deregulation.
I probably would've been gutted on short term gains fees anyway lol.
That's how it works though isn't it? The secret is to already have a bunch of money and stock and general capital...then when it dips, it's not so bad, and when it surges, you win such a payout!
How ingeniously simple! /s
I'm waiting for it to trickle
What are you talking about? We've been getting trickled on for years now. Oh wait that's piss.
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So Musk's investment in election interference of what, a million bucks a day? towards bribing people to vote now looks like an utter pittance relative to what he made back in just one day.
Of course these guys know that investing in elections has a good ROI.
For added perspective: spending a million as a billionaire is the same as spending $1 when you have $1000 in your bank account.
It is utterly meaningless.
Especially if you did it only 45 times or so at $45 invested and got $26,500 back a day after the election
oh right. goodbye, biden's billionaire tax.
Trickle down aaaaanny day now ....
Surely, now everyone will be hiring for all kinds of jobs and competing fiercely for who pays the best and offers the sweetest benefits, across all industries... Right? :D
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$64bn so far.
Because of course it fucking did.
Thank goodness, they were having such a rough time of it
Keep pulling and the rope is gonna break, sooner or later
And this is only to begin with.
We're just being kicked while we're already down. The idiots who voted for him don't realize they're in the ground with us.
I don't see in the article what percentage of this increased 'value' was actually spent on stocks. It seems such a house of cards to say the unrealised value of retained holdings is worth anything like the figure you get if applying the most recent trade's value to all existing shares. A value beyond a percentage of the company's assets and projected yield makes for a pretty risky game of hot potato for anyone buying in at the end and the potential for ridiculously overblown paper losses for anyone who got in at the start of the pyramid scheme with knock-on effects that propagate out to the real economy through the contagion of doomsaying. Bonds are a far more transparent way of raising funds and incentivise productive endeavours with good fundamentals as the company needs to pay from profits rather than offloading rewards to the system of finding another sucker (which can happen with bonds as well if sold before maturity in the belief that the issuer will be unable to fulfill their promise).
On the stock markets (worldwide) it felt like someone held back the whole time and then started investing large sums.
I also immediatelty scrapped all my plans about buying US stock. Everything has to be reevaluated 😕
Maybe I'll have to reconsider my Taiwan investments, too.
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