then sure. I guess I will. Not by choice mind you, but while the programs that help me (Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, etc, etc) get cut and eliminated and all hope for single payer health care or even pre-existing coverage gets wiped away in closed door meetings anyone from the 1% gets massive tax cuts and zero cuts to the loopholes and subsidies they know and love. Meanwhile we keep electing the same bunch of yahoos every bloody year (serously, how does Ted Cruz, a Senator not a House member, get reelected?). Then there's the 30 years of declining and/or stagnant wages...
What the hell else do you call it besides giving it away when we're not even making a perfunctory attempt to take it back?
Ebay's plenty big enough to absorb the occasional price match on a loss leader. Hell, even my local Fry's electronics will price match Amazon. And Ebay's goal isn't to sell product anyway, it's to get other people to sell and take 10% of the proceeds.
The Rich don't need you to buy their crap when they already own everything. Take a look at Apple, who became the most profitable company in human history by selling low volume, high margin items to the upper class (save for the occasional poor person trying to keep up with joneses).
Face it, the Rich don't need you or me. They'll claim ownership of everything and we'll give it to them because we can't bear the thought of somebody having food they didn't work all day for while we toil all day in the few jobs that are left. That's how it was for literately thousands of years of recorded history. What makes you think it won't go back to that?
than access to food, shelter and healthcare. That's not an alternative fact, it's a real one. Perception is not reality. We don't live in a world of magic, we live in one comprised of physics. There really are just some things that are true. Not because we agree they are, but because they just plain are.
The trouble is convincing those poor white southerners that reality is objective, not subjective. I'm not sure you can.
Predicted the phenomenon that is 'stigginit' or an entire class of people who would consistently vote against their own best interests. In particular he didn't forsee how easy it is for the owner class to put the working class at each other's throats. The concept of a "Welfare Queen" didn't really exist and the southern strategy was a few decades away.
WWII was started by unfair reparations that forced Germany into poverty and turned their working class fully against the Jewish merchant class (you're right about the Japanese though).
As for tech that started the World Wars, it could be argued that modern weapons and transportation made the theaters of war much, much larger. Modern farming techniques and mechanization let countries field vastly larger armies. In short, tech is what put the "World" in "World War". It extended the scope and length beyond traditional wars.
I've called an Uber and not been proud of it because I know the driver is being abused. I switched to Lift because they let me tip and found the last Lift I called I didn't have the option (no idea why).
Tipping gives me a chance to put my money where my left wing mouth is when I'm stuck patronizing evil businesses because almost every business bigger than a dog groomer is evil in some very obvious way. It's not much, but I never said I was much of a man. I'm humble enough I can't do very much more than vote in every election and maybe kick the guy that gets me to work when my car's in the shop an extra $10 bucks.
Now, I'll still vote for a world where tipping is redundant. But we'd need a proper safety net, medicare for all and a country where you aren't risking your life by going a few weeks without employment.
that the prompts were just there to make Tesla blameless and they implemented the policy after realizing that you can't be blameless when you kill people who can afford an $80k sportscar.
from Congress. It's a popular issue. He could easily shame them into putting through laws to stop the program's abuses (or better yet, the program entirely). All it would take is a few tweets. And if it's one thing we know about the Donald, he loves tweets. The fact that he doesn't shows either a) the issue isn't important enough to him and/or b) he doesn't want to act.
Low wages are always what they should be, but high prices are just the market self regulating. And God forbid you talk about poverty or (gasp) wealth inequality. Fetch me my fainting goats, I do believe I have a case of the vapours...
They're spouses of workers here are what are ostensibly temporary visas which were themselves issued for temporary labor shortages. Those 'temporary' shortages have been going on for at least 15 years. That's 3 full college classes start to finish.
Trump hasn't done anything of substance to even mildly inconvenience the wealthy, and the H1-B program (which, let's face it, is what Timmy's talking about) is no different. He made a few pointless proclamations to great fan fare but he didn't even bother rescinding Obama's executive order letting their spouses work.
Trump's entire cabinet is comprised of billionaires and Goldman Sachs people. The swamp is not getting drained. Face it, we got Hilary's economics with the right wing's Health Care and social issues slants.
at a Drive in, so yeah, I'm definitely old enough. I can tell you my kid wanted a car badly. So did her boyfriend. It took me till her second year in college to scrape together the money for one that wasn't just going to fall apart. The trouble is folks can't buy new cars, so they're not selling their old ones, and that means the cost of used has sky rocketed. I looked at stuff in the $10k range and found it all pushing 6 years and 60k+ miles. Yeah, those cars have life in 'em, but they're going to need a bunch of maintenance...
It takes years of hard work to become a Fireman. It's a highly desirable job. Folks work for years as EMTs beforehand.
And what about the other jobs I cited? Should everyone be forced to do shift work, live away from their families, maintain separate residences just to provide services to a lucky, wealthy few? How bad of a quality of life are you personally willing to allow? There was just a store on the Indonesians who make Ivanka Trump's cloths (it made the news because she's been making the rounds talking about work/life balance). America could easily go that route and 'solve' the housing crisis but just not caring. After all, it's not a crisis if nobody thinks it is.
For the death of the middle class. Hear me out on this one. As Whole Foods and other over priced chains are a good indicator of a shrinking middle class. Middle Class people want to feel upscale and are willing to pay for it. They don't make enough money to source their own food stuffs like a billionaire or even a multi millionaire might, but they make enough to eat Organic (which is a fancy way of saying no pesticides in your food and no BHT in your packaging).
As these ever so slightly upscale places go tits up we're seeing the middle class go with them. There's just not enough people making good money to support them. This isn't the company being mismanaged, it's the change in 'change or die'. It just so happens that change is the American Middle Class is going away.
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then sure. I guess I will. Not by choice mind you, but while the programs that help me (Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, etc, etc) get cut and eliminated and all hope for single payer health care or even pre-existing coverage gets wiped away in closed door meetings anyone from the 1% gets massive tax cuts and zero cuts to the loopholes and subsidies they know and love. Meanwhile we keep electing the same bunch of yahoos every bloody year (serously, how does Ted Cruz, a Senator not a House member, get reelected?). Then there's the 30 years of declining and/or stagnant wages...
What the hell else do you call it besides giving it away when we're not even making a perfunctory attempt to take it back?
When you let a small group of people buy everything. It's why wealth inequality is such a problem. Money is power, and we're giving it all to .1%.
Ebay's plenty big enough to absorb the occasional price match on a loss leader. Hell, even my local Fry's electronics will price match Amazon. And Ebay's goal isn't to sell product anyway, it's to get other people to sell and take 10% of the proceeds.
The Rich don't need you to buy their crap when they already own everything. Take a look at Apple, who became the most profitable company in human history by selling low volume, high margin items to the upper class (save for the occasional poor person trying to keep up with joneses).
Face it, the Rich don't need you or me. They'll claim ownership of everything and we'll give it to them because we can't bear the thought of somebody having food they didn't work all day for while we toil all day in the few jobs that are left. That's how it was for literately thousands of years of recorded history. What makes you think it won't go back to that?
so long as those differences involve us getting cheap consumer goods.
This is America, so no change then?
I kid, kid.
than access to food, shelter and healthcare. That's not an alternative fact, it's a real one. Perception is not reality. We don't live in a world of magic, we live in one comprised of physics. There really are just some things that are true. Not because we agree they are, but because they just plain are.
The trouble is convincing those poor white southerners that reality is objective, not subjective. I'm not sure you can.
So by all accounts a failure, right?
If you enjoy the old lore they can't really take that away. Sure, you won't get any more, but it doesn't devalue what you already have.
Predicted the phenomenon that is 'stigginit' or an entire class of people who would consistently vote against their own best interests. In particular he didn't forsee how easy it is for the owner class to put the working class at each other's throats. The concept of a "Welfare Queen" didn't really exist and the southern strategy was a few decades away.
WWII was started by unfair reparations that forced Germany into poverty and turned their working class fully against the Jewish merchant class (you're right about the Japanese though).
As for tech that started the World Wars, it could be argued that modern weapons and transportation made the theaters of war much, much larger. Modern farming techniques and mechanization let countries field vastly larger armies. In short, tech is what put the "World" in "World War". It extended the scope and length beyond traditional wars.
I'll be dead of a heart attack from poor genetics in just 30 years. Slacker.
I've called an Uber and not been proud of it because I know the driver is being abused. I switched to Lift because they let me tip and found the last Lift I called I didn't have the option (no idea why).
Tipping gives me a chance to put my money where my left wing mouth is when I'm stuck patronizing evil businesses because almost every business bigger than a dog groomer is evil in some very obvious way. It's not much, but I never said I was much of a man. I'm humble enough I can't do very much more than vote in every election and maybe kick the guy that gets me to work when my car's in the shop an extra $10 bucks.
Now, I'll still vote for a world where tipping is redundant. But we'd need a proper safety net, medicare for all and a country where you aren't risking your life by going a few weeks without employment.
that the prompts were just there to make Tesla blameless and they implemented the policy after realizing that you can't be blameless when you kill people who can afford an $80k sportscar.
of this.
we suck at it, but we worry about it (and a lot of other things, we tend to be neurotic).
from Congress. It's a popular issue. He could easily shame them into putting through laws to stop the program's abuses (or better yet, the program entirely). All it would take is a few tweets. And if it's one thing we know about the Donald, he loves tweets. The fact that he doesn't shows either a) the issue isn't important enough to him and/or b) he doesn't want to act.
Low wages are always what they should be, but high prices are just the market self regulating. And God forbid you talk about poverty or (gasp) wealth inequality. Fetch me my fainting goats, I do believe I have a case of the vapours...
They're spouses of workers here are what are ostensibly temporary visas which were themselves issued for temporary labor shortages. Those 'temporary' shortages have been going on for at least 15 years. That's 3 full college classes start to finish.
if it's not enforced.
Trump hasn't done anything of substance to even mildly inconvenience the wealthy, and the H1-B program (which, let's face it, is what Timmy's talking about) is no different. He made a few pointless proclamations to great fan fare but he didn't even bother rescinding Obama's executive order letting their spouses work.
Trump's entire cabinet is comprised of billionaires and Goldman Sachs people. The swamp is not getting drained. Face it, we got Hilary's economics with the right wing's Health Care and social issues slants.
Pre air conditioning. The question isn't has it always been this way but rather what are we doing to make it better?
at a Drive in, so yeah, I'm definitely old enough. I can tell you my kid wanted a car badly. So did her boyfriend. It took me till her second year in college to scrape together the money for one that wasn't just going to fall apart. The trouble is folks can't buy new cars, so they're not selling their old ones, and that means the cost of used has sky rocketed. I looked at stuff in the $10k range and found it all pushing 6 years and 60k+ miles. Yeah, those cars have life in 'em, but they're going to need a bunch of maintenance...
It takes years of hard work to become a Fireman. It's a highly desirable job. Folks work for years as EMTs beforehand.
And what about the other jobs I cited? Should everyone be forced to do shift work, live away from their families, maintain separate residences just to provide services to a lucky, wealthy few? How bad of a quality of life are you personally willing to allow? There was just a store on the Indonesians who make Ivanka Trump's cloths (it made the news because she's been making the rounds talking about work/life balance). America could easily go that route and 'solve' the housing crisis but just not caring. After all, it's not a crisis if nobody thinks it is.
For the death of the middle class. Hear me out on this one. As Whole Foods and other over priced chains are a good indicator of a shrinking middle class. Middle Class people want to feel upscale and are willing to pay for it. They don't make enough money to source their own food stuffs like a billionaire or even a multi millionaire might, but they make enough to eat Organic (which is a fancy way of saying no pesticides in your food and no BHT in your packaging).
As these ever so slightly upscale places go tits up we're seeing the middle class go with them. There's just not enough people making good money to support them. This isn't the company being mismanaged, it's the change in 'change or die'. It just so happens that change is the American Middle Class is going away.