I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts and real estate”.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
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and they like coffee and avocados.
*tongue dripping with sarcasm and planted firmly in cheek*
But I've got another thought and that is if you have a company which can't survive if you pay fair wages maybe there is no need for that company. Maybe.
Only their ex-wives care about humanity.
Reminds me of a quote of Robert Bosch:
"I'm not paying my employees well because I'm rich.
Moreover, I'm rich because I'm paying my employees well"
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* And/or receiving less of what they have paid as customers to receive.
'There are some people, Andrea, who are just horrible shits!'
Enlist those family members and friends who YOU have helped in the past, to pitch in.
I like to batch-cook on the weekends (just easy soups) to freeze.
Take it slow and easy.
That's what needs to be answered.
The MAGA cult is completely brainwashed, parroting what their orange cult leader repeatedly says and programs them with his lies.
So it must be God's fault
The bottom 90% have to live with 40% of the wealth.
Both poor and rich make bad choices, but the rich can keep making them without facing consequences. Thus, it’s not about the choice, but the wealth.
Positions should always be given to the most competent, and not based on irrelevant things like race or gender.
"And buy fewer dildo shaped personal spaceships..."
AT 71, I'm always having to choose between what gets paid & how to find a way to siphon $ to save from my less than $28,000 income. It sounds kinda macabre but I'm on a mission to have enough saved to pay for my cremation so they kids won't have to.
Yes, I said cremation NOT vacation.
Feels like I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Option 2) torches and barricades
And the other problem with today is that it is now global, and exponential!
Also historically, governments get overthrown when things get as bad as they are now for a significant number of people.
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Which does suggest that they are in fact stupid.
Farm, construction, etc are skilled jobs that don't require advanced education... Yet they have trouble paying bills.
And their relatives
The game is rigged so some kids get all the blocks.
They tell the rest: "You can't build a castle?
Use fewer blocks!"
But the problem isn't the blocks you use.
It's that some kids took all the blocks.
And they won't share.
#NotMyBlocks #FairnessMatters
There, even a child would understand that
“Because I said so now shut up”
We then need to charge the little people for everything they use sufficient to incentivise big people to make money (in a no tax/low tax jurisdiction). Borrow as much as possible to pay shareholder dividends too (see UK water companies).
The key is maintaining competition (possible in modern telecoms with regulation), I suggest not possible in other utilities.
I believe that needs to be revisited.
That mixed with the fact that the person saying it usually is wealthy themselves, or laboring under the 'embarassed millionare' delusion.
human beings are greedy, hungry for power, and greed and power are each addictive
it's a problem with humanity, not people with yachts but people wanting them and why..why people want more than they need and hoard:
fear of being without
💰 -🏩 - 🛥️ = Sad billionaire
They will NEVER be on the side of fair and equal justice for all.
They will NEVER care about middle class or the poor.
Like Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, who earned $26.9 million in total compensation in 2023, while a substantial number of his employees are on welfare. Fix that!
Rampant extreme greed & selfishness - wealth hoarding - has created extreme poverty, illness, & crime in here.
No socializing expenses and privatizating profits
So it is about the power the companies have.
Any statutory minimum wage should be above the welfare floor.
Therefore, no job creation.
They would just invest their money into something else.
Jobs are created by a company being successful in its own rights. If it can’t do that without “shareholder’s investments” they are masquerading as a successful company that is actually harming the society they exist within.
See: Walmart.
Or: any Health Insurance.
If they don't, they probably have investors. Which can include the owner/founder.
Investors also expect a return on their investment.
So, shareholder investments are absolutely necessary.
Unless you live in some fictional communist dream-world in which the state owns industry.
Or is it one of your "successful companies"?
Because Walmart has shareholders.
It is also the largest employer in the US and one of the largest in the world.
While that is mathematically true, it fosters an idea that keeping those wages as low as possible is essential to being "profitable."
And even though he died long before you were born, and we now know what he said was wrong, we still believe him.
when you are correct
you are correct
lets get organized so the rich someday will have smaller yachts @teamaoc.bsky.social
or better yet rowboats
#donalon #elonald has a 757 because they are poor #billionaires
Money for wars, untaxed churches, electoral votes from Confederate states - nothing changes…
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about families…that work(hard) yet live paycheck to paycheck….
#TaxTheRich
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news”
— Billie Holiday
Dear Andreas Parents,
We are not here to answer questions. We are here to indoctrinate. You might consider doing the same before your child faces further discipline.
Don't take logic as a weapon into a money fight.
Wait a minute, saying it out loud feels kinda scammy
You, are a worthless peasant.
Hope that clears it up!
We are all worthless peasants, and we foolishly prop up those who made us that way.
This next period is going to determine the resolve of good Americans. Be smart about it, no need to make Starbucks richer.
- Wm. Burroughs
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Otherwise, let the entire workforce vote for what the CEO deserves. 🤷
Additionally, you can't have more than $1K in the bank, so forget about saving for a deposit
Paying a UBI pulls 80% of people out of poverty and homelessness.
Poor people budget just fine. They just don't have enough funds to survive.
A college student today comes out of college with debt the size of a house mortgage.
At the top, the employees become lattes and avocado toasts and the yachts become the necessities.
We need to turn every $dollar$ topic upside down
We need Wealth Tax to right-our-ship
We are getting poorer and billionaires / millionaires are in the wealth-stratosphere (no pun intended)
We, the American people, the American worker must demand EQUITY
I’ll start now
https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/
You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you.
Got to build you a union, got to make it strong.
. . .
The Boss won't listen when one guy squares,
But he's got to listen when the Union talks!
(Pete Seeger, Talking Union)
& anyone who complains will be the next one to get the finger of blame.