Subnostr

Right, that’s the point. It looks like a tiny pebble in an ocean, but it’s merely one symptom of the problem as a whole.

You do make less than that. That means that if you were a business, your employee would be yielding less than that from your labor.

Yet, if your farm was an S-Corp, and attempted to pay yourself (as the employee) the $6.99 you’re worth, then they would say it was tax fraud and unfair compensation.

Sure taxation is theft, but you should be able to pay yourself whatever garbage wage you want. Then, after paying yourself that garbage wage, you should pay taxes at a lower rate because you’re not worth as much.

Anything else is artificial inflation, which isn’t free. The further you get from anarcho-capitalism, the further you get from just simply letting the market decide completely on its own, the closer you are to UBI and full on socialism.

AU9913 3d ago

I get your point, but maybe it just doesn't make sense to me bc all of these freedom indexes are subjective anyway, but they are presented as an objective list.

They should publish all the raw data and just let me weight what matters to me more or less.

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AU9913 3d ago

Also, on the minimum wage thing, the federal minimum wage doesn't matter to me because my states minimum wage is higher

Jed 3d ago

Oh ok, that makes sense in context.

I just look at granular things and take them to the extreme. I guess all that was me trying to say “The extreme of minimum wage isn’t freedom, it is totalitarian facism.” (Not in the cheap antifa definition of facism, but the classical definition: federalized corporatism).. the same or less free for the average worker, but way less free for a private business owner.

Both the worker and the ceo are people, so it’s a net loss for the worker to be the same free and the owner to be less free. But ya, it’s a dumb metric for freedom lol