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People On This Facebook Page Are Mocking Capitalism, And Here Are 40 Of Their Best Memes And Posts
Capitalism can be a complex and weighty subject. But that doesn't mean we can't approach it with a joke or two. For that, let's take a look at the content of a Facebook page called 'Memes For A Better Tomorrow.'
From the endless pursuit of profit to the ever-growing cycle of consumption, the page invites its 51,000 followers to look at serious, nuanced topics with a dash of levity, so we thought it would be interesting to join them and do the same.
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Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
Here's one for y'all. I'm a supervisor. I just had three new people hired. All three make $1 more than I do.
Iblowsheep_V3.2 2 years ago
$350k per year? Hell i'd consider doing it for my current salary, which is like 1/7 th of that . I have done it before, albeit at minimum wage and part time. just in terms of the work, It's preferable to having to deal with the c**p thrown at you in the typical office setting.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Wages would have to be reassessed across-the-board for it to be fair. I am a teacher of special needs children and my starting salary with 35K a year with a masters degree. I would have a problem with the someone flipping burgers for only $5000 less than I make
T5n 2 years ago (edited)
I’ve seen this Twitter user mentioned in a completely different BP post but I can’t remember which one. Does anyone know? Edit: a few of his Twitter post screenshots have been in other posts, notably “don’t f**k the pizzas”, “first day as bartender”, “and it’s just Garrett”, and “I’m slightly less terrified of tigers”. Did I miss any?
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Avocado toast has never been a problem for me. I sodding hate avocadoes.
Worst Cop in Britain 2 years ago
The guy who spent $5k on Starbucks last year... wouldn't have even saved enough for a DOWN PAYMENT on a house. Ain't the lattes either.
Chris Landrum 2 years ago
Companies give 3% raises despite inflation. being 7-8% and profits up. Bonuses. to management too
J Adams 2 years ago
Not the whole story though, the biggest driver for rental costs is lack of supply keeping up with demand. Ie if you are in a town with 1,000 empty properties but 500 people looking to rent the rental costs will drop because landlords will want to be the ones with tenants so they can ‘get paid’, switch it around to 500 properties but 1000 potential renters the price will rise
Chez2202 2 years ago
Avocado on toast is a culinary crime. I really don’t care what an avocado costs if you are going to treat it properly. Sliced with a vinaigrette dressing is by far the nicest way I have ever eaten one. They are not as expensive as people say. I can get an avocado for a third of the price of a small punnet of raspberries.
Under capitalism, private individuals or businesses own capital goods. At the same time, business owners (capitalists) employ workers (labor) who only receive wages; labor does not own the means of production but only uses them on behalf of the owners of the capital.
The production of goods and services is based on supply and demand in the general market—known as a market economy—rather than through central planning—known as a planned economy or command economy.
#3
ApplePie123eat 2 years ago
I sometimes wish I was a billionaire and give all my money to end world hunger as a middle finger to Elon Muskrat
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
its even more ridiculous when you consider twitter is now valued at less than $20bn but don't tell muskrat that, he'll get sad and blame the people who use it instead of his own incompetence and the fact he laid off the majority of staff that actually made this site work.
Id row 2 years ago
If you want to stick it to Musk, just stop using twitter. You'll survive without it, I promise.
Kat Min 2 years ago
I cannot understand what goes on in the minds of Musk and Bezos and the like. You cannot possibly spend that kind of money. Why not just do it like Gates and so many others and invest in bettering the life of humanity. You can fund universiites, food programs, buy brazilian rain forrest - so many options. And what do they do? the fly into space in a giant penis.
Woltax 2 years ago
Can someone help me out? What‘s the name of the law, that at one point the good and smart people step back and the stupid (e.g. Trump, Putin, Zuckerberg, Musk…) get in charge?
Just me, myself, and I 2 years ago
Wish I knew! Then we could work to overturn it.
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v 2 years ago
This is a false argument though. $6 billion won't end world hunger. $6 billion will only put a band aid on it for a few days.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
If I could be a billionaire, I'd take notes from people like Mark Cuban and Mr. Beast. People who use their money to help others, and yes, they get an endorphin rush from it, but who cares? The online pharmacy Mark Cuban started is amazing.
#4
Ace 2 years ago
Should be a lot higher. The saddest thing is that many people in the US who cannot afford proper healthcare actually still support the system because at least thee are some people worse off than they are. They honestly feel happier simply knowing that they're not at the bottom of the pile.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
Yes. It’s very much a mindset of ‘you can’t have that because I wasn’t given the same opportunity’ or ‘if you’re getting something then someone must be taking it from me ‘. Total dystopia.
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LissyPoo 2 years ago
As a non American, from a country with universal health car, I remember my utter shock the first time and American who I knew, whose husband needed a double lung transplant coating hundreds of thousands that they did not have, was bashing and opposing univeraal health care because "they didn't want someone else to make the decision for them"!?!?! Um....yeah, that's not how it works. Also I should point out that we pay the same tax rates as Americans - our government just spends less on the military.
My O My 2 years ago
Wait, they didn't want universal healthcare despite the fact that they currently needed it?
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Laura MG 2 years ago (edited)
Average cost of my needed heart surgery: $170,000. Part of this I will have to pay: 40,000+. My yearly income from Medicare: 12,000/yr. Which is why I'm not having surgery at 65, it's cheaper to die.
LittleWombat 2 years ago
This is devastating and as a very ill American, my heart breaks for you. None of us should be trapped by this system. I wish you health 💛🤍
Load More Replies... D Peterson 2 years ago
We've been taught, as a nation (USA) to blame those with a lower socioeconomic status than ourselves for all our problems. It makes absolutely no sense but it works. Instead of condemning those who are responsible for what is wrong in this country, we blame the poor or homeless or minorities. Example: North Dakota Congress just decided that that they have no responsibility to feed hungry children in their state, yet voted to raise per diem meal reimbursements for state employees traveling within the state, from $35 to $45. (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-state-senator-votes-against-free-school-lunch-says-hes-never-met-hungry-constituents_n_6411d544e4b0a3902d2e0c19)
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
And that the best way to a strong population means support from the start. Healthcare starting en utero and with the mother’s health.
J 2 years ago
Sadly, this is a point of PRIDE rather than shame, for many. My parents are like this. If you’re sick, you should’ve worked harder at a better job blah blah and you deserve what you got. Sigh.
Frank Atkinson 2 years ago
seems like they mostly still live in the Wild West, no healthcare and lots of guns
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Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Living(?) this right now. We are NOT profitable... so "F U, die quicker"
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Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Tgoody probably has rich parents and lives in a little mansion in their yard, being very proud that he finished the college they paid for and that he got a top tier job at their company.
ApplePie123eat 2 years ago
I got rich by working very hard. (Oh, and also, my parents were millionaires and owned a company they gave to me)
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Ken Beattie 2 years ago
The only way that could possibly be true is if you had so much money that 100k doesn't even make a blip on your bank account. ie: you're a multi-millionaire or billionaire.
michael Chock 2 years ago
And yet the rich are all about passive income. Free money is only bad if the person getting it has nothing.
Hutt'nKloas 2 years ago (edited)
I feel way more proud & satisfied by earning my own wage and supporting myself, even if the money cant buy the extra things I like. Getting the money for free is ofc welcome and could support more luxury items...............but I wonder if it's satisfying on the long term. Call me old fashioned but I have more respect for those that earn their money by them selves honestly than those that get it without doing anything for it, even if it means they[workers] live relatively poor.
ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 2 years ago
i’m assuming this is american dollars which is lowkey like 8mil for me??? so damn gimme the money
The purest form of capitalism is free market or laissez-faire capitalism. There, private individuals are unrestrained. They determine where to invest, what to produce or sell, and at which prices to exchange goods and services. The laissez-faire marketplace operates without checks or controls.
In reality, most countries practice a mixed capitalist system that includes some degree of government regulation of business and ownership of select industries.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
I hate Dr. Phil. It’s all staged and makes a mockery of people with real struggles.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago
I thought he and Dr Oz were both frauds. I don't mind if you want to have a medical talk show, but don't exploit people and get the stories wrong for better ratings.
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Chihuahua Mama 2 years ago
Billionaires shouldn't exist, because it means at some point you've screwed someone over, either by not paying them enough or by not paying a fair share of taxes
Verena 2 years ago
And still the very rich are adored and followed by millions of people, making them even richer.
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Tams21 2 years ago
For some perspective: Jeff Bezos new yacht is estimated to cost around 500 million dollars. That's enough to to build several new hospitals and schools, enough to pay the annual salary of over 8000 teachers, 2,500 doctors or 12,500 Amazon warehouse workers... All for what he spends on what is essentially a *toy*. All while many of the aforementioned workers struggle to feed themselves.
Just me, myself, and I 2 years ago
Give to DonorsChoose.org to help offset the classroom expenses! I don't contribute to the iPad requests but I fund paper towels, pens and pencils, wiggly chairs, rugs, books, etc. There's many ways to filter options such as near you, greatest need, ending soonest, specific teacher, closest to goal. And you can choose to be anonymous or not. The kids will write (hard copy) thank you notes that are sent to you. Talk about heart-warming!
robin aldrich 2 years ago
Why is it so hard for a certain group of legislators to understand that a "the other guys" don't want to raise taxes but want to make everyone pay their fair share, because the wealthy get so many shelters and get away with not paying anything... this includes corporations...we don't have to raise taxes we just have to collect them fairly...which includes the wealthy actually PAYING THEM!
Sue from England 2 years ago
If politicians, including the Presidential staff, went into politics for just 2 or 4 years (only) they should be audited before they go in and after they come out. Should only have 1 of 2 salaries depending on their position. If anyone had made more than the salary (excepting overtime) then they should be investigated for fraud, embezzling, blackmail, or whatever else that gets them that millions of dollars when they walk away with. And the money that's in their bank accounts illegally should be seized and put on credit towards everyone's tax bills (except politicians'). I know it's 'out there' but I'm so sick of regular middle class or lower class workers struggling every day, working so hard, not seeing their kids except for an hour a day because they're working so many hours to barely make ends meet, and then seeing politicians going on vacation eleventeen times a year, and leaving office with ten million in the bank!!! It's blatant law breaking and it'll never change!
Steve Robert 2 years ago
Not only does my third grade teaching daughter make a barely livable wage, she ends up spending a small fortune on supplies. And look how much she gets to deduct? Sad and shameful
Mocha The Lion 2 years ago
real life should be like mario cart, the higher you are in line the worse stuff you get, if your in last you get the best stuff
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
And we need to have the option to blue shell them when they get to full of themselves
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Gregory McCombs 2 years ago
Being a billionaire also means you are a murderer because you have cornered so much of the earth's resources and call it your wealth that the mass of humanity suffers and dies of unnecessary hunger.
Laura Gillette 2 years ago
Teachers shouldn't have to spend money from their own pockets to buy school supplies for their students to begin with! Rrrrgggghhh
ghostFluff 2 years ago
Reminds me of the plebians and patricians in ancient Rome- plebians, who had significantly less money than patricians- had to pay more taxes, and because the plebians weren't educated as well, patricians could just change up the laws in their favor (i probably screwed up some facts but you get the idea)
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
They say it like those American suburbs with identical houses sprawling for kilometers are somehow less depressing
Royal Stray 2 years ago
They all look like nuke-towns it's terrifying. Why would anyone want to live like that?
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TeaAndWhimsy 2 years ago
This isn't left wing?! This is usually associated with fascism and communism - socialism is not the same...
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
To be fair, communism is extreme left wing. Just as fascism is extreme right wing.
Load More Replies... D Peterson 2 years ago
Calling this "Left Wing Architecture" tells me you watch Fox News, & you're not real bright.
ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 2 years ago
i think it’s gorgeous if everyone gets a home, no matter how ugly it is
#9
Rosecrucian Roeth 2 years ago
Free is never Free, you do pay for it...............you just don't notice where you pay for it.
Mental Liberals 2 years ago
In all honesty, the "free" stuff that's given out is coming out of the Middle Classes pockets!!!
Marla Singer 2 years ago
It, um, totally depends on what's being given out and who it's being given to.
Samantha Kalitzki 2 years ago
Nur reiche kriegen alles um sonst, um Werbung zu machen, für arme Leute die es sich nicht wirklich leisten können zu kaufen
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
'There's no such thing as free' yeah but if we make the ones who aren't struggling to literally have a place to live and food to eat pay for it that seems pretty good
Industrial capitalism usually benefited bigger parts of society rather than just the aristocratic class. Wages increased, helped greatly by the formation of unions. The standard of living also rose with the glut of affordable products being mass-produced. All of this led to the formation of a middle class and began to lift more and more people from the lower classes to swell its ranks.
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Paul Neff 2 years ago
The types who have the money might actually need the joke explained, since they have trouble grasping income vs cost of living issues.
Load More Replies... Ashen Raine 2 years ago
For some context: in the US it's been claimed that "no one wants to work anymore" when it's in fact due to s**t wages and long hours. This is a reverse on that argument to show how stupid the idea that "everyones just lazy" is.
Frank H 2 years ago (edited)
ok... didn't know that claim; sound like an exploiter's statement, indeed. Still, that car sales metaphor isn't the most catchy IMHO. Meanwhile we're facing a generation of 20 to 30-year-olds that have silly expectations re job conditions and wages. Heads up in the clouds with no understanding of economy (and I'm not talking about a turbo-capitalist-exploitation US economy, but a somewhat regulated, social one).
Load More Replies... Iblowsheep_V3.2 2 years ago
yeah and when you mention that fair market value on your "trade-in" is $12k, they offer you $900 for it.
Timbob 2 years ago
I don’t understand this, and therefore don’t find it funny, or ironic. If you live in a country that runs its economy through Capitalism, that’s the name of the game !
CP 2 years ago
Yeah, you clearly don't understand the comment nor capitalism, apparently. If people aren't willing to work for your shi**y wage, it isn't because they don't want to work.
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Graham Berry 2 years ago
I would love it if the dealership system went out of business. Then we could buy cars from the manufacturer for what the car actually costs instead of the massive markup the dealership sells them at.
Frank H 2 years ago (edited)
I don't get it. Does it mean car prices are too high? You can get one in India for that price. But don't expect an Audi. The costs to produce a "real" car are way higher than $5000. One reason: an OEM employs hundreds of thousands of people with a salary high enough to by one of their own models (lower range of course). Also what has the dealership to do with it? Yes they add a substantial margin to what they have to pay the OEM, to build their pretentious glass palaces, but still they won't get a car for $5000.
Some rando dude 2 years ago
I hope you planned on making payments to pay off the portion you owe?
#11
IntrovertedSloth 2 years ago
Trumpmonkey is a great name, since he throws a lot of c**p at people.
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KETGZ 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure this is about the Fox News trial and the 2020 election. The problem is that, their viewers only watch Fox News, and Fox News is not covering the trial, so their viewers have no idea it is going on, and if someone tells them about it, they just scoff about "fake news."
Anton Swanepoel 2 years ago
Fox sells outrage, and there are plenty of people in the US that are perfectly happy with that. It won't matter what revelations emerge during the Dominion lawsuit, the fact that Fox lied about "a few things" will in no way diminish their viewers craving for feeling pissed off.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
I notice that moron, "whatever" hasn't arrived to give his crazy grandad rant yet.... I bet any of you he won't be able to resist this post
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Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Waiting tables has been listed as one of (if not the, irc) most stressful skilled job out there. I can attest to that. Then throw any customer service related job after that.
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Iblowsheep_V3.2 2 years ago
mentally draining because of the negative stigma attached, and certainly taxing because of the assholism of the general public, but having done it before i have to think calling much of it skilled is stretching it a bit....although trying to navigate a cramped grill area with hot equipment and searing hot grease everywhere and barely an inch between your team mates without incident during an mad lunch rush ,.....okay i take that back, it IS skilled labor.
Devil'sAdvocate 2 years ago
You know, sometimes when I don't knowing much about a tweet or public opinion... I don't say anything like an idiot or side strongly with anyone. Maybe i search it up or ask you wonderful pandas about it.
Sue from England 2 years ago
McDonald's always used to be a High School job, or a first job for kids to get used to getting up early in the morning, working a whole day, learning responsibility and getting their first pay check. It was never meant to be a career job.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I'm with you on that. It's how we always viewed working fast food, checkout, paper delivery, etc. You'd do it in the afternoons, weekends, holidays to make extra money. Not as an adult career. I mentioned in another post that I think there is a shortage of the next tier of jobs though. So people are being forced to view McDs as a career.
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Alex Kennedy 2 years ago
Very easy test: would you rather be served by someone experienced than someone doing the job for the first time? Then it’s skilled labour.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I think how something is defined as skilled labour should be how much effort is required to teach someone to do it with a reasonable level of competence. If you can learn your job in a day or two it's not skilled. eg: Cooking at McDonalds is not skilled labour, cooking for a high end restaurant is.
Load More Replies... robin aldrich 2 years ago
Absolutely agree ...except people who work in real restaurants (no offense to fast food, fast food actually pays better) but the restaurants you go in, sit down, get served, relax and enjoy a meal... the servers are treated like c**p, paid less than minimum hourly wage and then usually cheated on a tip... and have a huge mess to clean up after you and your out-of-control kids trash their table. they have my utmost respect...
AngelWingsYT 2 years ago
Any job that effects you so much mentally that your still trying to DO that job in you SLEEP takes a while new lvl of skill
Sabrina Longo 2 years ago
Will Smith said he snapped because he was always pretending to be nice(uncle fluffy) to fans. Meanwhile workers not making millions a year, have to be nice to customers 40 hours a week. They can't afford to slap anybody.
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
landtwat and landwanker are also applicable. (that said, there are some genuinely good landlords out there, but many of them are just lazy and only care about their rent payments. :/)
Grace Note 2 years ago
There are so many bad landlords and I am so unbelievably lucky to have a landlady who is also my best friend.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
I’m sorry that you have had bad landlords/landlady‘s. I rented for 20 years before buying my house. I was blessed with good landlords and I’m still in touch with them socially and consider them friends. We had bastards is unfair and a sweeping generalization.
The expansion of the financial sector accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism. Banks had previously served as warehouses for valuables, clearinghouses for long-distance trade, or lenders to nobles and governments. But eventually, they came to serve the needs of everyday commerce and the intermediation of credit for large, long-term investment projects. By the 20th century, as stock exchanges became increasingly public and investment vehicles opened up to more individuals, some economists named a variation on the system: financial capitalism.
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Noname 2 years ago (edited)
Too true! My kid had an asthma attack, and the American hospital insisted my kid needed to be admitted because steroids were given. 3 days and $25k later ( they gave too much albuterol which made my kid's heart go into afib, so we needed a pediatric cardiologists not on on insurance, but we had no choice) my kid is alive but..... In France, 2 years later, same kid, asthma emergency, the French ER gave my kid steroids, an hour with albuterol treatment, was sent home with the advice that if the problem persisted, return to the ER. Cost €17. My child is still alive and hasn't required any more er treatment for asthma.
Load More Replies... Gwyn 2 years ago (edited)
Things Jesus never said:. Help the poor ... Unless you think they don't deserve it. Then it's ok to persecute them and watch them suffer for years until they die.
Noname 2 years ago (edited)
I know you're being facetious, but, work on the delivery. The New Testament sections of the Bible make a lotta claims about what "Jesus said", but was written centuries after his death by people who weren't alive when he supposedly made these statements. For all we know, Jesus might have said "blessed is mint as it will inherit the world", and as a gardener who's been trying to rid my yard of the scourge of mint, I think Jesus might have been giving advice to gardeners. Let the mint live as it is.
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Elvira 2 years ago
Honestly I think what keeps us thinking this really has to do with "sense" of fairness. To ever make the change will mean and entire generation (or 2 or 3) of humanity, will have to collectively decide that even though they had to struggle and work and fight to get what they have....the next generation deserves to get it for free. It's not that different than the 30 year employee who makes $20/hr, seeing an 18yo kid get hired for $22/hr, and says "I want the same, that's not fair". I'm not saying we shouldn't strive to make that change, to accept that "better for our children" means "my neighbor's children should have better than I had too". But I think this is the mental hangup we struggle to pass.
JMC5003 2 years ago
Not sure that's a "natural" line of thinking. Reading this post reminded me of being taught exactly those ideas in school (I'm a boomer). Working as a housing paralegal for legal aid the past 5 years has opened my eyes to how much we were constantly bombarded with propaganda and straight up lies in school. I'm ashamed of how many years it took for me to really examine my thoughts on a lot of subjects, only to realize so many thoughts that my brain produces are a direct result of the propaganda and lies taught to me by the school system, television and the church. Americans think we're free- we're just well controlled by- wait for it- propaganda and lies. The internet granting personal access to people from all walks of life, in every country, is changing that - when people are willing to learn. It's really hard to accept that you've been lied to by practically everything and everyone around you for your entire life. I think that's a big part of why so many boomers are close minded.
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Joshua David 2 years ago
It's been interesting to see in this fentanyl crisis just how many of the elites own children are dying from buying 👻 chat drugs. Interesting indeed. Sadly, capitalism placed most of the people shooting up on the streets. Most started with minor injuries but through over prescribing of opiates created drug addicts. Capitalism could eff up a wet dream.
ChickyChicky 2 years ago
See also: the costs of having needle exchanges and safe injection sites, vs. the cost of people ODing, or getting diseases and dying, or getting diseases that are very expensive to live with for the rest of their lives.
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Alex S 2 years ago (edited)
It's the same reasoning Americans use to justify not having universal healthcare. The US spend MORE per capita propping up its terrible system than any country with socialised medicine does, yet people still can't get past the fact that their tax dollars will be used to pay for someone else's treatment even though the exact same thing happens using private insurance, it's just your after tax dollars.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
Exactly, the same people who b***h about paying for universal healthcare are also really gungho about locking everyone up for minor offenses which costs a fortune, but heaven forbid we pay to put a roof over someone's head if "they haven't earned it"!
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Jill Rhodry 2 years ago
I had a family member who had a heart attack and did not have private health insurance - 1 week in CICU; quadruple bypass; 10 days post-op CICU; 2 weeks general ward. Allied services once discharged were: physio; nutritionist; cardio gym. He took 3 months off work; two weeks paid sick leave and the rest was covered by wage protection from mandatory employer superannuation - the cost to him after 13 weeks = $0.00.
Donglens 2 years ago
I live in the UK. The NHS is one of the best things ever contrived. It is appalling that it is mismanaged! It's not due to lack of funding, or being overburdened. It is bean counters and "managers" messing it up.
Best Behave 2 years ago
No it’s severely underfunded. The issues are caused be deliberate policy decisions by tories
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Benita Valdez 2 years ago
My dad did a month long hospital stay about 20 years ago. Bill was over $200k but thank god it was eventually realized to be tuberculosis because the department of health stepped in and offered to pay the bill as long as he allowed them to monitor him taking the meds for it and everyone living in the house had to get tested. Don't know what we would've done otherwise
Anon822209 2 years ago
Wait, my dad must have done it wrong. He went to the hospital and died there, so we had to pay the hospital bill, the ambulance bill, *and* the funeral bill. Silly Daddy.
DP Nerill 2 years ago
$131k for a heart attack - PSHAW that's nothing. Get this, it happened to me. Ten years ago I went to my family doctor with a small lump in my throat, it wasn't really bothering me, I was just concerned. Well, within 48 hours I was in surgery for a massive 12 hour operation for late stage throat cancer. After two more surgeries, one an emergency because a large blood clot was blocking my carotid artery. I was in hospital for a little over a month, much of the time on life support with all kinds of tubes and monitors sticking out of me everywhere. After I was stabilized, I was put on radiation therapy for two months. During that time I had dietary support, psyc support, social work support etc. Things were just piling up and piling up. At the time I did have a house (with a mortgage) and a bit of money in the bank but I wasn't working. Anyway, after all that, I couldn't even imagine what the over all cost that was going to be and... oh, wait a minute, I'm Canadian - Nevermind.
DP Nerill 2 years ago
Yes, this is a true story. And yes, less than 48hrs between seeing my family Dr. to surgery from a world class ENT specialist. So, all you in the US hearing about how awful and slow our healthcare is by the anti-public health right wing, it's BS. That from someone who experienced it. And I'm still getting tax funded health care despite my previous conditions. In addition to that the U.S. spends more public money on healthcare per capita than Canada. (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-healthcare-sweden-canada/) So if we and other countries can have 100% public HC at less tax money spent, what's wrong here?
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Paul Gerrard 2 years ago
Most other countries have systems where patients dont choose life or death. Obama had a idea and some called him a socialist.
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Donglens 2 years ago
And some rich douche will probably buy the image for thousands just to flex
UselessKnowledgeFont 2 years ago
Makes me think I really ought to have taken a picture of that blue corvette at the grocery store yesterday. At least it got me singing Eifel 65's "Blue"
By incentivizing entrepreneurs to reallocate away resources from unprofitable channels and into areas where consumers value them more, capitalism has proven a highly effective vehicle for economic growth.
More and better goods became cheaply accessible to wide populations again, raising standards of living in previously unthinkable ways. As a result, many political theorists and economists argue that capitalism is the most efficient and productive system of exchange.
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Noname 2 years ago (edited)
How is this strictly a Millennial and Gen a culture when this is has been our attitude in France for longer than the Millennials and Gen z have been alive???
Mary Bank 2 years ago
As a manager, I 100% push those that report to me to take sick days, mental health days, vacation time, promote all forms of health over work... work can wait a day, we are not saving lives. Now you get me and my team 9-5 Monday to Friday and no more. Period. Having someone that has your back makes you happy to work WITHIN working hours. I have had a few really crappy managers and I learned A LOT from them on what not to do.
Neil O'Connor 2 years ago
None of the Millenials where I work seem to be rejecting hustle culture, they work as hard as anyone AND most are also persuing graduate degrees. Its exhausting just thinking about that kinda hustle
Just me, myself, and I 2 years ago
Having done and suffered doing the Hustle Culture, I say stick to your guns young people!
El Howard 2 years ago
Yeah, work tons of unpaid hours, only for them to come by your cubicle Friday after noon and tell you, "You finished all the tasks assigned to you? Great, don't bother coming in Monday, you don't work here any more." And yes, that actually happened to me (new manager hated my guts).
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Joshua David 2 years ago
That would have been me. My company did an anonymous survey every year and in HR I was talked with analyzing about 100 of them and I was dead. These people aren't dumb you know.
fluffyacat 2 years ago
My HR dept stopped doing anonymous surveys. Apparently the truth wasn't exactly what they wanted to hear.
Load More Replies... D Peterson 2 years ago
Call it by any name Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, or any other form of government you can name, if it is run by the rich for the rich & the poor are kept poor, it is BAD!
Ashen Raine 2 years ago
Riiight, because immigration is so simple and cheap, isn't it? Sigh.
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Donglens 2 years ago
Sisyphus wasn't compensated though? We are compensated for our time in work with money (or other). It's the ratio of work to money that is the issue for most; especially when you take into account the cost of living
Paul Neff 2 years ago
If your compensation is not enough to get what you NEED, then it is not enough. You just added in the punishment of Tantalus as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus
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DamnBecky 2 years ago
This comment is coming off of a month period where a bunch of Tiktok & Instagram fitness/life coach influencer types tried to rebrand the Sisyphus myth as the Gods rewarding him with a repeatable action that brought him satisfaction at the end of the day then he was 'rewarded' with the ball rolling down the hill and he got to do it again. They also said part of the reward was he was in amazing shape. It was a weird month
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
So everybody was wrong for 2500 years? With something scientific, I could understand, but when somebody makes up a story they usually know what it's supposed to mean
Load More Replies...But a downside of capitalism is its ability to corrupt. Crony capitalism (sometimes called cronyism) refers to a capitalist society that is based on the close relationships between business people and the state. Instead of success being determined by a free market and the rule of law, it can depend on favoritism that is shown by the government in the form of tax breaks, grants, and other incentives.
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Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
I would hand Elon Musk some aloe vera for that burn, but I don't like him enough to mangle one of my aloe vera plants.
v 2 years ago
Take Vivian's comment and expand on it related to why Apple is worth $2.62 trillion. I can guarantee that it's not because of one of interactions like the one with Musk. Just the same as they seemingly bent Musk to their will, they have bent the will of all the people who continue to buy their products and services.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
They're worth 2tr because they are getting a 30% slice on everything on their apps store.
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jiajun xiao 2 years ago
Musk should switch places with a homeless guy and let MrBeast take his job
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
That’s so 90’s. The new downsizing strategy is to make the employees so miserable that they voluntarily quit, requiring no severance or unemployment insurance payouts.
Dave Fontana 2 years ago
It is actually from a movie called Locked Down, made about and during Covid from 2021. Not a great movie, but it is topical!
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 2 years ago
2001 I was fired for being ill (with doctor's notes). Was told I would win if I took them to court, but couldn't get legal aid to do it because I the monetary amount was too low for legal aid to be allowed to do it.
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Trond Øien 2 years ago
And forcing workers to come into an office for a job they can easily get done remotely is about the office space rental market.
JMC5003 2 years ago
I don't know why no one points out the ecological cost of people commuting to work who don't need to work on-site. I also don't understand why empty office buildings aren't being converted to housing more often. I'm aware that the retrofit from office space to apartments can be difficult, but it seems as though it would solve issues for the landlords, issues regarding the housing shortage and would have a positive environmental impact because we wouldn't need to build more structures. Our government is truly not about helping the average citizens. It's all about corporate greed.
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Lydia 2 years ago
That is probably another USA thing ? Here in Europe they may leave home at 18, but are certainly not expected to, unless they choose to do so. For study too far from home or so. If they go to study nearby, it is far more normal to stay home into their early to mid-twenties.
Blue Chambers 2 years ago
Tim is right and I would add in there was a stigma attached to living with your parents or moving back home after 18 was seen as an embarrassment but it has more or less disappeared today.
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Sherry Errera 2 years ago
Wait? What? I couldnt wait to move out when I turned 18. Had nothing to do with any push to leave home...I was ready to get out from under the iron hammer (you know, the parents). Lol!!!
R Dennis 2 years ago
Yep. My stepkids all moved out at 18 because I was a taskmaster: No "sleepovers", no drugs, if you are coming back after 11 (as opposed to staying out/somewhere else all night) give a heads up so we don't freak out when someone comes in, you have to either be in school (trade school, college, something) or working... as long as you did these things, free room and board. I was such a fascist...
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Laura Gillette 2 years ago
So you're saying by still living with my parents til I was 27 I was actually STICKING IT TO THE SYSTEM?? And.... not a pathetic loser? 🤣
April Pickett 2 years ago (edited)
I never thought of it that way, but I think you are right. If the parents really object, then out of the house, you go. You just can't push my buttons. You will pay rent, wash your own clothes, pay part of the electric bill, and contribute to the grocery money. Entertainment is your own expense and don't bring anyone home for the night.
michael Chock 2 years ago
I agree with everything except the bit about having 10 kids. 1 or 2 is fine. Better yet, adopt.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
8 Kids, 10 people = 2 parents and 8 kids. Or maybe 2 parents, 2 kids, their 2 partners and the four grandkids? In either case, I couldn't imagine living in a house like that. I would go insane having that many people living with me. And honestly, while I don't think it's necessary to kick kids out at 18 I think at some point it's better if they move out and do their own thing. Both for their sake and yours.
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I'm 34 and still living with parents. Otherwise, I'd have taken my life long, long ago. And still at risk today. They're my first and last line of sanity. I don't know how I'll endure once they're gone.
In practice, this is the dominant form of capitalism worldwide, due to the powerful incentives both faced by governments to extract resources by taxing, regulating, and fostering rent-seeking activity, and capitalist businesses trying to increase profits by obtaining subsidies, limiting competition, and erecting barriers to entry. In effect, these forces represent a kind of supply and demand for government intervention in the economy, which arises from the design of the system.
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
If you never stop hustling, accept multiple jobs, go above and beyond and dedicate all your waking hours to work, then, one day, you boss might go to space!
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
That would be compensation enough for me. When should he arrive?
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
I have NO illusions about wealth by working a side gig. I am just able to call my own shots and use my "regular" money to live, side money for my own.
Ronnie Cutshall 2 years ago
A fool is soon parted from his money. That what working is, con job. Still working 54 years later
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
Me in July: YES! Paid off my car!!! Winter: Here is some record cold temps of -21. My car: 🏴☠️
Isaac Harvey 2 years ago (edited)
For me, it's usually my MRIs, which can happen anywhere from as rarely as once a year to as frequent as once every 3 months.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
God I wish I could make memes. Corporations: *sad b******t noises* People: LOGIC Corporations: *HISSS* IT BURNS
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If I ever do an AirBNB, literally all I’d ask is for people to not completely trash it and just clean up after themselves a little bit, cleaning fees are a no to me.
Joshua David 2 years ago
I've always understood the logic of staying in hotels vs. someone else's space. We know the reasons why and I'll be completely honest here and say it was hidden recording devices that spooked me and also, they ask you to communicate and explain the reason for the visit with the owner. Why? Hotels don't ask what you're doing and probably would only know if you told them or were booking under a block of reserved room like for a wedding.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
To be fair hotels have been busted with recording devices in the past. So I wouldn't rely on that thought. I don't think Airbnb asks the purpose of your visit do they? And yeah, I don't get the cleaning fee if you're expected to clean up. Kinda defeats the purpose.
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Kaseylulu 2 years ago
I stay at Airbnb's usually twice a year and the only cleaning I have ever had to do are putting the dishes in the dishwasher and running it, putting the towels and dirty linens in a pile, and take out the trash. I don't have issue with the cleaning fee because I don't consider that cleaning. It is what I would do anyway because I feel it would be disrespectful to leave a someone else's house a mess. I know other people have had other experiences, but if you read the reviews and the listing carefully you should be ok.
Lilla Ontherun 2 years ago
One of our airbnb hosts wrote us that nobody left his place as clean as we did. We were shocked, because we are cavers. I never got a compliment for being clean before.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I have stayed at AirBnbs and had mostly pleasant experiences, but I always look carefully at them when booking. There is one in Asheville NC that I stay at once a year, and they are always reasonable.
Chris Leeson 2 years ago
My Airbnb employs a cleaner for $35 per hour. She needs 3 hours to do a basic clean after anyone has stayed just to swap sheets, towels, disinfect toilets and surfaces, etc. If people aren't respectful and do their own dishes, set out their trash, and start a load of laundry, she needs 4 or 5 hours. Airbnb isn't costing you too much. You're refusing to pay an honest wage to the person who has to clean up after your lazy a*s.
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Donglens 2 years ago
Wether you are working for yourself, or someone else. Wether you are working for money or food. Work is essential. What you consider work is the problem. Even if you go back 10000 years humans had to work. They had to hunt, they had to gather, they had to build. They didn't do it for fun, it was hard work, it was long hours, it was required to live.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
"Required to live..." that's the crux of the thing right there. Not a single soul on this earth ever asked to be born
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Jeremy Bolanos 2 years ago
Painfully accurate. What was a social responsibility to pull your own weight has turned into a capitalist hellscape of living off pittance so a few could do nothing and own everything.
Demolition Lover (He/him) 2 years ago
Not always true.. I find work done together as a community or group, like a lot of volunteer work, to be enjoyable. Theres a bonding experience in it, and satisfaction in giving back to the community. But idk that's just me, and I like helping people.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago (edited)
I've never wanted to work, and even when I imagine the greatest job possible, I'd rather not. That doesn't mean I haven't worked hard and steadily, i just resented it the whole time and still do
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
so depressing. I dont mind going to work and i dont exactly have a dream job.
Monday 2 years ago
You are very much the exception friend. Working is the worst part of my life.
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Critics argue that capitalism leads to a significant loss of political, democratic and economic power for the majority of the population because it creates large concentrations of money and property in the hands of a relatively small minority (the elite or the power elite), leading, according to them, to very large and increasing wealth and income inequalities between the two groups.
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Paul Gerrard 2 years ago (edited)
US labour market makes me wonder if slavery ended. Nowhere else. Minimum wages, internships etc.
Gmaddles 2 years ago
Reward for living in society? That shouldn't be a reward; that's how humans are functionally built. Further, a true society helps those who work two jobs and still can't make rent and afford to eat. A real society would not allow hunger, homelessness... or tax breaks for the rich
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NickTheDuck 2 years ago
Lets take a break from this depressing talk about capitalism, and play mariokart instead!
Atero 2 years ago
That is exactly what capitalism wants you to do instead of fighting for your rights ;)
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Mental Liberals 2 years ago
That's not capitalism, that's corruption in a rigged system! Amerika is run by an oligarchy...
Ronnie Cutshall 2 years ago
Yet giving to poor is bad. Giving to rich, bank and corperation is good. What kind of logic is that?
Ryan C 2 years ago
Screenshot's slightly inaccurate though. In the context of capitalism, Luigi should still be in 1st place despite being rescued from the water by Lakitu for the 5th time, should still be able to acquire top-tier items (Lightning, Star Power etc.) to be able to further his lead, whilst the players in last place get the low-end items (Banana Peel, Green shell etc.)
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Reminds me of that comic where a capitalist, a worker and an immigrant are sitting at the table. Capitalist has 9 cookies, worker has one, immigrant has zero. The capitalist leans to the worker and whispers: "Watch out, that immigrant wants to steal your cookie!"
Gmaddles 2 years ago
How are people so blind to this?? Do they ever look toward the top, past all these distractions? An immigrant doesn't succeed in life by having one cookie... they are working for one chance
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Alex Martin 2 years ago
Increases competition for jobs which depresses income. Increases competition for housing which increases housing costs. Increases need for schools, hospitals, and other social services since many undocumented workers are exploited and don't make much money. It puts more cars on the road increasing commute times and impacting the environment. I'm in favor of increasing legal immigration and decreasing the wait times for legal immigration. The current system creates too many opportunities for migrants to be exploited, trafficked, and become victims of crime. Illegal drug money has turned Central and Meso America into a gang-infested hell that creates the need for people to go north looking for a better life and then exploits them when they do.
whatever 2 years ago
Wait a second...you said something that makes sense about why illegal immigration has a negative impact and you didn't get downvoted into obliteration ?
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UtanaYona 2 years ago
Here's an idea...as a Native American...all non-Native Americans that are here in America without the permission of the Indigenous people(Native Americans) go home to your family's countries of origin. I think that it is HILARIOUS!! It's kinda like...Yeah...give up your guns and let the government take care of you...look how well it worked for us.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago (edited)
America treated, and STILL treats, Native Americans absolutely horribly. It’s disgusting. Also, can I ask what nation you’re from?
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Donglens 2 years ago
It's not that simple. Illegal immigrants are often human trafficked. This has multiple implications and costs! And governments have to bare the cost of this. Human traffickers are often trafficking for drugs or criminal organisations; which has an effect on the country. Illegal immigrants are often exploited and are practically slaves. Illegal immigrants sometimes maybe doing so against their will; who will help them? Who pays for that help? Socialist countries still have issues, they just manage it better, kinder, and with more compassion
Christof Irran 2 years ago
"On Nov. 6, 1986 Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 [...] The Act’s most significant effect was that it allowed immigrants who had entered the U.S. illegally before Jan. 1, 1982 to apply for legal status, provided they paid fines and back taxes." And nobody wanted to consider amnesty for "illegal immigrants" since then because of the terrible consequences of Reagan's 1986 act: "Between 1980 and 1990 — a span that included the eight-year Reagan administration— the foreign-born population of the U.S. increased from 14.1 million to 19.8 million. This change included 4 million more Latin American-born residents and 2.4 million more Asian-born residents — and nearly 800,000 fewer European-born residents." Yes!, it's the absence of WHITE immigrants that scares your representatives in congress; the facts that immigration will change the color of the average American!
Just me, myself, and I 2 years ago
Trump actually said it out loud wondering why Scandinavians don't want to move to the US!
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Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
Illegal immigration does cost the government: it costs them the health care and food stamps to subsidize a poor family who can’t get work because they are considered illegal. If we legalize immigration for everyone (w/o making them go through a ten year process!) then the government will save money and even get income tax from the workers!
Frank Miller 2 years ago (edited)
Wrong. Many of those illegal immigrants end up in social programs with back doors. Those social programs are paid for by your taxes. Your taxes also pay for the price of trying to keep them out, capturing them once they're in, housing and feeding them while they fight the system to stay in the country, and then ultimately exporting them back out of the country. Illegal immigration is not free, it's a problem and a real one.
Paul Gerrard 2 years ago
Hmmm. When they arrive and want free food housing and jobs and are exploited...the travel part isnt the problem
And while 57% of the American public continues to view capitalism favorably, that is 8 percentage points lower than in 2019 (65%), a 2022 national survey by the Pew Research Center revealed.
However, its main "competitor" isn't doing too well either. Just 36% of U.S. adults say they find socialism to be somewhat (30%) or very (6%) positive, down from 42% who viewed it positively in May 2019. (Six in ten today say they view socialism negatively, including one-third who view it very negatively.)
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Vasana Phong 2 years ago
The egg memes are in and out, it’s getting back to the normal inflation prices
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John G 2 years ago
I tip cash so that nothing needs to be reported and you actually receive 100% of your tip and this is how you choose to thank me.
Lisa H 2 years ago
I was thinking it's a regular customer who never tips since I have had multiple regular customers like this when I delivered pizza. They probably know who the person is and know they're not getting tipped.
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Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
tipping is a bizarre American underpayment ploy. Other countries pay living wages, and tipping is not thing.
Red Wyvern Emperor 2 years ago
OK, I gotta ask. What's up with tipping in US? Like we don't tip here. Everything is in the wages. Don't the US curriers get their wages or something?
Linda 2 years ago (edited)
It's a way for restaurant owners to not have to pay their employees much at all. And it sucks.
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Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
THIS is why we no longer do deliveries. The attitude and disrespect is ridiculous. Last one was delivered to wrong house, left on porch... and we were told to go find it... ( after giving 20% tip ). Done with any floor smash, or hoover deliveries.
Tams21 2 years ago
That's exactly the problem with these kinds of delivery drivers and they'll end up putting themselves and others out of a job. It's not their customers that owe them a living wage, it's their employer. They're the ones they should be going to complain.
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Tipping is out of control. I tip, and I tip well, those who are in a traditionally tipped role. Sorry not sorry, I’m not tipping you for making me a latte when I know you make more than National min wage…he’ll you make more than local min wage.
Solangelo4life!!! 2 years ago
Both of them. Someone who might not be able to afford a tip, who is struggling financially now is punished for not having money. It’s not any of their faults, it’s the tipping system.
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All you are doing is hurting the restaurant that has to refill that order for free.
Rebekah Krause 2 years ago
So we have a system where people get underpaid based on the fact that they’re going to get tips. We get people who have to tip that don’t want to.. And your concern is the fast food chain from which they ordered the pizza? Who cares. By the way that pizzas from Little Caesars. If you actually walk your a*s to the outlet, you are not expected to tip.
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Miss Mali 2 years ago
So my question with all the landlord arguments going round is, where does Air BnB come into the discussion???? What about people getting botted from their homes because landlord can make more money ripping people off for cleaning fees/deposits??? Not to mention the fact that everywhere I look somebody is pissed off because and home owner or two or four in there nice quiet neighborhood is now using home for Air bnb and there are strangers in and out of the place all the time, frequently causing trouble, or loud parties or other things they moved to a nice quiet neighborhood to avoid???
DD 2 years ago
And how to you suggest we build houses? Unless you know where you can get free labor and materials and a way to pay for the costs of future maintenance, yes, the builders build homes for profit. People that maintain the properties (landlords) do so as a business so yes, they intend to make a profit. If nobody makes any profit, just where do you think the government will get money from to do anything?
Atero 2 years ago
Oh, but what about building housing stock without the profit? You think state "can't" hire builders, architects and engineers to organize building of houses? No, it simply chooses not to. To much wasted interest which will kill such incentives in infancy. For second part - "governments" of multiple countries earn more from CONSUMPTION taxes like import/vat (as well as taxes on capital) than from profit/capital gains.
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Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Reminds me of Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel: "9 out of 10 orphans can't tell the difference"
Worst Cop in Britain 2 years ago
Ummm but that gruel literally brought my A1C down almost a whole percentage in the span of 3 months so I'll continue eating it??
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Paul Neff 2 years ago
The logic checks out, but wasn't this supposed to be stopped by democracy?
Dillon Sizemore 2 years ago
Yep, if you had a true democracy it would, but most democracies are just constitutional republics or constitutional monarchies, and in both cases it's a group selects a representative from a very small group of interconnected people who have thier own agenda and represent a too large portion of the population for the sake of generalizing votes. Same thing Lucas showed in Star Wars with the senate. Realistically it doesn't work to have one person represent a million it would work better at one to a thousand or ten thousand.
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Miss Mali 2 years ago
Wait if we are talking about the USA then 1. What do u expect from a democracy that when started held other people in bandage with no rights and no wage, 2. Only allowed white male landowners vote in that democracy, this is of some of the people, by some of the people, to benefit some of the people.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Former corporate executive HR employee. When people are screaming at employees that they're going to call corporate and how we handled it. Keep in mind we didn't have one person who solely focused on these concerns because we were being overworked doing other behind the scenes things. So anyway a complaint comes in and if I'm even half listening to the complaint because these go to the end of the pile and hardly even get addressed AT ALL. That's a fact.
Joshua David 2 years ago
So next time when or if you need to call corporate for anything keep this in mind.
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Part three: put a rabid little Bohemian corporal in the chancellor’s office with the powers to oppress dissent, but oops: then the little creep starts another world war (no worries: you won’t do any real jail time afterwards, and can rebuild the state on the same model)
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Landlords provide housing as much as scalpers provide concert tickets.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago (edited)
i had a nice landlord before we bought this place. A normal human being, we lived in a decent apartment, and he didnt try to rip us off. After we moved, the next door place has two appartments and they both have no problems with the owner. He's also a nice guy that comes as soon as theres a problem, and keeps the rent down because its a very old building. I have a friend who bought an appartment and ran into the love of her live 6 mnths later, so someone else is living in her appartement, has been the same guy for years, never a problem. Does that automatically make her a bad person?? I can go on forever with examples, i know there are bad landlords, but just saying landlords are bad is stupid. Here come the downvotes, i guess. edit: before you come at me because we own a house, it is small, has a very strange floorplan, was cheap and on the market for a while because it needed so much work, and its in a street where average people dont want to live.
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Donglens 2 years ago
Many landlords in the UK do have real jobs, and rent the property at almost the same amount as the mortgage; it is their hopes of paying it off as a nest egg or to assist when they are older. They may not have the same amount of struggles financially as some, but that does not mean they are rich or millionaires. Wealth is a sliding index for people. It is a fact that 99% of people ("middle" class included) are poor in comparison to the 1%
Adam Jeff 2 years ago
If a landlord rents the property for the same amount as their mortgage, they are not somehow being charitable: they are paying off their mortgage, after 30 years or whatever the landlord will own a house and the tenant will have nothing. It's disgusting that it's even possible to rent a house for MORE than the mortgage payments.
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Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Maybe these people are all talking about multi unit landlords. I own a three family house. I live on the first floor and I have tenants on the second and third floors. Each unit is three bedrooms and one bathroom. I bought my house so many years ago and charge $1000 a month for each of the two other units. The money that goes into a savings account over and above our mortgage and is used for repairs, taxes, tenants move without notice, etc. My husband and I both work full-time jobs. In addition to being landlords. We are not doing this to get rich. We are doing this to have retirement income.
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Koen Willaert 2 years ago
At least he's honest. Most of them want us to believe they've started from scratch and worked hard.
Miss Mali 2 years ago
Wait he only makes a little over $5,000 per property a year, that doesn't sound so good to me. Did I miss something here???
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Nope, that's probably about right. Chances are he doesn't own any of them outright. He's borrowed money to buy one, then more to buy a second leveraging the equity he's built in the first. And on and on. It wouldn't surprise me if he doesn't completely own any of the properties and is repaying the bank on all (or at least most) of them. The majority of the rent on each property is paying the interest and capital on his loans. And assuming he's not a scumbag there'd be a chunk also being used on maintenance.
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Mare Freed 2 years ago
Where does Goro live that $200K makes him wealthy? I mean, I wouldn't say no to $200K (I earn half that working 50 hours a week from a real-work job), but this post seems to be celebrating his VAST wealth for no work. Where I live, $200K is comfortable middle-class, no more. You'd still have to mind your spending.
Colin Matthews 2 years ago
200,000\37= approx 5400 per house if you conservatively estimate a purchase price of a house at 350k then he is making peanuts
Chris Leeson 2 years ago
Maybe maintaining a small, functional traditional family somehow can lead to generational wealth!? If your mom and grandmother don't know who your dad/grandfather is and you're stuck in the gig economy, blame s****y family values not capitalism. Grandparents who worked hard and made life better for their kids create parents who did the same and then you wouldn't be a leftist idiot from a broken home.
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Francis 2 years ago
a lot of hotels are offering late check out for free (or only a little fee). they just need to know it in adavance ftp plan accordingly
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Gouge your guests $200 cleaning fee, or pay minimum wage to a Somalian refugee to clean on an exhausting schedule.
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Bols 2 years ago
This should be higher, we all live in this vicious circle of constant remorse that we should be constantly productive and i f we like doing something we should do it better and for profit... It is so hard sometimes to relax without feeling guilty all the time
Isaac Harvey 2 years ago
Do I like taking pictures? Yes. Do I let friends use them for their own posts? Yes, when they ask nicely- and preferably, in advance. Do I want to be lured in with money, and then become chained to an endless cycle of contracts with zero downtime? No.
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Thom Serveaux 2 years ago
My mom says that no one who saw "Hair" in the theater gets to complain about millenials.
Philly Bobcat 2 years ago
I ran the movie "Hair" at the TLA cinema from 1979 to 1982. One of my all time favorite films!
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Yeah, “Eat the Rich” movies: the Menu, Glass Onion, etc. But how much credibility should I give a movie about billionaires made by millionaires?
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Okay, but I've read something about it and it's pretty interesting, that movie trends influence real-life fears. For example kaiju movies = fear of nuclear weaponry, slasher horrors = fear of serial killers / murder cults, zombie movies = fear of global pandemic outbreak, etc.
Jrog 2 years ago
It's actually the other way around. The Godzilla serie, the very first Kaiju movies, were influenced by the collective fear of radiation after witnessing the horrors of Hiroshima. "The Warriors", the "Dead Wish" and the "Dirty Harry" series capitalized on the fears about the crime waves fueled by social disparities of the '70, and idealized the individual "vigilantes" as an answer to perceived inefficacy of "socialized" justice (a concept strongly pushed by right-wing pundits for political interests, but that's another story).
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
The mega rich media mogul who won't let his employees report anything that makes him or his rich friends look bad who I wrote into one of my novels was in no way based on a real person and the part where he gets brutally drowned in his own hot tub was certainly not wish fulfilment in any way shape or form.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Lmao I saw a comic the other day with a dude who got a nipple transplant, so one of them was a woman’s. So he pulls up his shirt to show his buddy and half his chest has a black bar over it. Not super related but I thought it was hilarious.
Load More Replies... Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
I just answer. "i could, but the government says i'm not allowed to".
Joshua David 2 years ago
When I worked in corporate HR I would delete the NDAs for some employees. I mean we never checked into that.
Demongrrrrl 2 years ago
I was a technical writer for the federal government and the majority of my output was classified. So now I don't have any samples of past work to show when I apply for a new job.
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miameows 2 years ago
My husband and I (Gen X) bought a cheap a*s condo that we are slowly fixing up to be our forever home. It cost less than $75k 8 years ago. We both make under $50k per year. We eat avocado toast occasionally and have $1000 phones and six cats. I don't remember where I was going with other than - buy a cheap a*s property and DIY. Do I want a house with a yard like my parents? Sure, but this is what I can afford.
DD 2 years ago
Most of the people the younger generations are whining about started just as you have. My father built his own home (not had it built. He literally built it along with my mother, who was nailing shingles on the roof when she was pregnant). Dad worked two jobs to be able to do that. He, mom, my sister and older brother lived in a 30' travel trailer on the property when building. I worked 2 jobs a good portion of my younger life to be able to accrue the money that allowed me to buy property and put a home on it. The whiners want to start with a mansion and are upset because they can't afford one as a starter home.
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Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Isn't it sad that any excitement for a breakthrough new technology is immediately dampened by realization that corporations will immediately seize it and turn it into some dystopian, profit-generating BS?
Hawkmoon 2 years ago
You forgot the "military" step wich always comes first.
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John Smith 2 years ago
So your saying I should delete every mention and image of my parents before they come back from the dead to continue trying to ruin my life?
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Kristal 2 years ago
Especially for short term temporary positions!! "To whom it may concern, I really want this 3 month job during the summer because I don't get a stipend while not enrolled in classes. I strongly believe I can do simple repetitive tasks, see my graduate cv for pertinent examples" :p
Tiger Lilly 2 years ago
They're all "write an essay about how much you love and want to work for this company" and you're all "I want to buy food"
DD 2 years ago
Then don't apply. Just sit home until evicted then live in the forest and eat ants and squirrels. When you are asking somebody to risk hiring you, they deserve to know why they should take that risk. Apparently many of you don't understand what a cover letter provides a prospective employer or prospective employee. A resume is little more than a list of dates and duties. A cover letter let's you sell yourself. If you don't want to sell yourself, why would you think the employer would buy your labor? .
Kristal 2 years ago
Hahaha so you think because we don't like a cover letter we don't know what it's for? Of course we do. We recognize that for many positions, it really isn't needed. Selling oneself is having a nicely done resume with qualifying skills and then the interview is where one further sells oneself. Seriously, I've been interviewed for positions from just my resume, I have also been hired without ever needing a cover letter. For entry level, non-skilled, or temporary/seasonal positions, cover letters are simply not needed.
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Dillon Sizemore 2 years ago
Until the people with the money get the goverment to force thru a deal that the employees don't like making it illegal to continue to strike by using laws about rail infrastructure that should of been thrown out when we tore our rail infrastructure up making the interstate system .
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User# 6 2 years ago
Is 'the largest egg producer' a really big chicken? No? Then it's not a producer but a dealer.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
I’m so sorry but as soon as I saw “egg dealer” I immediately thought of some shady guy in the back alley, “hey kid wanna buy some EgGs?”
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NickTheDuck 2 years ago
thats why you raise ducks for eggs! we produce bigger and better eggs.
Enlee Jones 2 years ago
Meanwhile, the rest of us serfs are told to skip breakfast to save money….
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
This I don't understand. In any reasonable country that would lead to a sharp decrease of sales from the largest producers and most competitors taking advantage of the new landscape to increase sales and grow market share. The "entry threshold" is very low, it's not like you need large infrastructures and extensive technology to produce eggs. You can start a moderately sized egg producing operation for a relatively modest sum and just a few months, and be up and competitive at least in local scale. This scenario is practically one of the very few in which the "Invisible Hand" concept actually works. Why USA keeps having this monopoly-led shortages despite an economic system designed around this very concept?
Colin Matthews 2 years ago
because the usa doesn't enforce antitrust and anti competition laws. if you tried to start up a business the enormous corporation you are up against would ensure you went under by pressuring your suppliers and distributors etc
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detective miller's hat 2 years ago
It's amazing living next to a farm and being chummy with the owners. Lots and lots and lots of eggs just left on my doorstep when the neighbours are passing by. In exchange they occasionally get free labour out of me because their cows are lovely and I will gladly lend a hand just to hang out with them. :)
Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
Which is f****d because the industry had to purchase/raise like 80 million new hens. i bet the farmers aren't seeing this profit, just the Eggland's Best like mother f*****s.
Timbob 2 years ago
I have a relatively comfortable life. Here is a small part of the reason for that: I love hard boiled eggs. When they were $.99 a dozen, I ate them very often. When they went past $2.00 a dozen, I stopped eating them. When they passed $4.00 a dozen, I stopped even thinking about them. They are now down to $2.59 a dozen. When they go below $1.50 a dozen, I’ll start thinking about them again! I have never ordered food to be delivered, payed a food delivery fee, or tipped a food deliverer. I place an affordable value on everything. If that value becomes less, no matter if I can afford it or not, I do without. This does not apply of course, to things needed to stay alive.
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robin aldrich 2 years ago
And it's just the hospital side ....that's not including any other department's charges ....horrific!
Joshua David 2 years ago
I would say the doc has nothing to do with the bill or the decision on how much it should cost.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 2 years ago
Yes, all truly benevolent human beings who don't care what they drive.
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Boatswain Bill 2 years ago (edited)
Guarantee every one of these f*****s will be starving in the breadlines crying about why they couldn't be the Proletariat in their precious Red utopias.
#48
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
Rate hikes be like: oh no! Too many people are moving up the wealth ladder! We can’t have that, our system wasn’t designed for it! Hike the rates until they’re all miserable again and the ultra wealthy can hoard more wealth because they can afford the higher cost. There we go, aww sweet imbalance
DD 2 years ago
You seem to not understand how the economy works. When pay, in general, increases, the cost of production increases. To be able to stay in business, the business must increase their prices to their customers. You seem to be suggesting a business simply eat the increased costs of production until, well, they are no longer profitable and must close the doors.
Load More Replies... Joshua David 2 years ago
I read a whole article on "fakeflation" and I was slightly stunned. Why slightly? Because now my a$$ is used to all the f'ing that's been happening most of my adult life.
Terry Tobias 2 years ago
I receive Social Security Disability as my only income. This year we actually got a cost of living raise which rarely happens. It helps but I still live under the poverty level. If I didn't recieve other benefits I couldn't afford to live.
#49
Paul Neff 2 years ago
Communism works IF the group is small enough for everyone to know each other personally. People are often too uncomfortable to cheat people they know, as well as being overseen by their neighbors directly.
CP 2 years ago
This makes no sense. People cheat people they know all the time in this world.
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Hawkmoon 2 years ago
As a European, I find it missing: "No money? We offer you to live a life of debt by taking financial credits for your studies and your health"
Paul Neff 2 years ago
To many Americans, a lifetime of debt would be preferable to financial ruin, resulting from charges for education and healthcare.
Load More Replies... Joshua David 2 years ago
Hahaha. You're right. I hardly see signs like this anymore except during election times.
Load More Replies... Joshua David 2 years ago
I thought that's what Tinder/Grindr was for. So out of touch these companies.
Load More Replies... Timbob 2 years ago
Hey, I’m an American, and I don’t know what a Kratom is either ! (My wife is European. She doesn’t understand this post either !)
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
Hallucinogenic plant. Chewing on the leaves will get you high, but judging by the picture, I wouldn't trust whatever is being sold by the sign.
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Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Yet, Google laid off 12000 employees -6% of the workforce- with an email on 20th Jan 2023, including long-timers, specialists, people whose company was bought off by Google and the purchase agreements included a permanent position.
Jrog 2 years ago
https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/
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Joshua David 2 years ago
Eff Meta. Zuckerberg set the earth on fire with his social media invention. I often times ask myself why the very people who anonymously bully and threaten others on a daily basis can be such snowflakes these days. Like I know I just threatened to kill Dylan Mulvaney multiple times online but we need to cancel so and so because I was offended. GtFO
#54
Fenchurch 2 years ago
What's going on is you need to get a proper job and stop being a landbastard by another route
Joshua David 2 years ago
I love the word landbastard lol. I remember that my first apartment in 1998 cost me $400 per month and included all utilities except for cable and phone. I worked as a telemarketer during that time for less than 10 per hour and my boyfriend and I stayed there for 6 years. I just looked up the property and the same space is going for 1295. The median household income where I grew up is 30 k or less per year. It's still empty.
#55
Mentally Unhinged 2 years ago
How do you know it was girl? not trying to be rude just saying
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#57
Joshua David 2 years ago
People have such a convoluted understanding of unions. My partner of 10 years did until I explained that my father, a laborer, wouldn't have been able to keep his job after multiple work induced surgeries on his injuries because a non union would've given him unpaid time off or fired him. Unions are to protect the little guy from systemic corporate abuse and called lazy? Why because they need breaks and be able to leave after 8 hours of work. Go f yourselves.
Miss Mali 2 years ago
Unions are awesome . . . Of course corporate hates them . . . They force them to play by the agreed upon rules . . . U are always going to have more power when acting as a lock-step block of people!!!!
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Joe Bloe 2 years ago
I genuinly don't understand the outrage about capitalism... What's the alternative? Communism, Anarchy, Monarchy? The problem is not capitalism, it's human greed that will come up in every single economic system you make.
KAM KAM 2 years ago
Capitalism is amazingly good at satisfying desires. But our desires are pretty petty. We let capitalism TELL us what to desire. Like two inches from these words.
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Carl 2 years ago
The problem is that we need a new -ism. Capitalism rewards exploitative practices. Our technology makes such cruelty unnecessary. The amount of public service related automation that could be put into a city for the cost of a luxury yacht would be fantastic. Yet we use technology to try to sell you more junk you don't need.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
Well, being treated fairly and wok abolition, are not even in the same sport. The problem with the attempts to better our world, is that they're always hijacked by some lazy-a*s or some profiteer.
Penny Kemper 2 years ago
Yes capitalism is terrible but do any of the people complaining about decide to stop being a consumer? Do you raise your own food? Buy clothes at second hand /thrift stores? Try to buy only used products or make your own? Live off the grid? No so you can b***h about it if you are participating in it.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I go to thrift stores, use solar power, buy tons of second hand, make and repurpose a lot of stuff (am trying to grow some food) and I still have to be part of this system since I live in the U.S. I will still complain about it.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 years ago
They can afford to take a vacation here since they have 4 or 5 weeks off paid and a little disposable income because their health care and education are paid for by the government.
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Joe Bloe 2 years ago
I genuinly don't understand the outrage about capitalism... What's the alternative? Communism, Anarchy, Monarchy? The problem is not capitalism, it's human greed that will come up in every single economic system you make.
KAM KAM 2 years ago
Capitalism is amazingly good at satisfying desires. But our desires are pretty petty. We let capitalism TELL us what to desire. Like two inches from these words.
Load More Replies... Carl 2 years ago
The problem is that we need a new -ism. Capitalism rewards exploitative practices. Our technology makes such cruelty unnecessary. The amount of public service related automation that could be put into a city for the cost of a luxury yacht would be fantastic. Yet we use technology to try to sell you more junk you don't need.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
Well, being treated fairly and wok abolition, are not even in the same sport. The problem with the attempts to better our world, is that they're always hijacked by some lazy-a*s or some profiteer.
Penny Kemper 2 years ago
Yes capitalism is terrible but do any of the people complaining about decide to stop being a consumer? Do you raise your own food? Buy clothes at second hand /thrift stores? Try to buy only used products or make your own? Live off the grid? No so you can b***h about it if you are participating in it.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I go to thrift stores, use solar power, buy tons of second hand, make and repurpose a lot of stuff (am trying to grow some food) and I still have to be part of this system since I live in the U.S. I will still complain about it.
Load More Replies... LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 years ago
They can afford to take a vacation here since they have 4 or 5 weeks off paid and a little disposable income because their health care and education are paid for by the government.
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