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Found it

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Anyone have that wage gap meme with the horses? I know I saved it, but I can't find the damn thing.

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It's a death by 1000 cuts sort of problem, but it seems to me that vaccines, diet, abuse, addiction, & social manipulation for monetary gain are at the core.

https://youtu.be/AaiicS2HXW4?si=oY0EBhOaCvih5hiR

Some of the poors really do have fun being the poors.

You should try actually engaging with the ideas & the explanation I have laid out instead of just implying that I'm evil. If you really care about helping people you have to let go of ideas that do tremendous harm first. The way to get to a place where most people have access to comfortable good paying jobs & low living costs has nothing to do with demanding that people be paid better. Underlying monetary & regulatory conditions have to be changed.

But people do take low paying jobs all the time, why do you think that is? Maybe because some money is better than no money? And the sort of people who promote economically retarded ideas always want those ideas imposed with force.

The solution to rising living costs & poor job options, is less govt spending (no more bailouts, corp subsidies, & interest rate controls) & fewer taxes & laws restricting bussiness activity. Less govt spending means less inflation, & less restriction on business activity will mean more businesses get created & have to compete for employees. More options raise pay & working conditions.

A whole bunch of wild dolphin came up all around me & a former gf while paddling a pretty good ways off the beach at Rodanthe NC. I remember thinking there were a lot more battle scars on wild dolphin than I expected. You see a lot of them around, I've even seen them playing in the surf, but seeing them super close was definitely a different experience. Whales seem like they might be a bit more nerve-racking tho 😅

I need funny/educational economics memes.

Pls help

No, absolutely not. In some sense, maybe it's a nice wish. But you can't change economic reality with laws & threats of violence.

The minimum wage is always zero.

Businesses are not charities that can hire people at a loss. Businesses give people access to productive capital & resources they otherwise might not have access to, which does make people more productive. But people still have produce more value for others than they are paid, otherwise they are an economic drain on the business, which makes everything unsustainable.

So if you set a minimum rate of pay that allows people to purchase X amount of stuff, anyone who is not productive enough to justify that amount of compensation (generally the poorest & least skilled) will be unemployable. People who cannot be employed at an economically sustainable rate of pay can not learn & gain the experience needed to earn more. Setting the lower bound for pay rates very high, is like removing all the lower rungs on the economic ladder.

Your policy built with nice sounding intentions turns life into hell for the very people you claim to want to help.

And unfortunately the govt tends to actually want a voting block trapped in poverty with just these sorts of policies so they can be easily controlled & manipulated & used as a social talking point, so there are actually people who work to encourage this ignorance.

I think it does a pretty good job of illustrating the magnitude of the ignorance in what he is saying. But if you disagree, feel free to explain how I am wrong.

They mispelled "pbththth"

When the crappiest people have the most power your society is at its end.

The people most worried about the evils of corproations are weirdly those most caught up in corporate marketing narratives. Major corporations want people to support more regulation & taxation because those are the avenues by which they employ the govt to crush their competitors & to extract money from you without providing any value in return.

Tell a statist that voting harder won't save them & some of them will damn near have a mental breakdown.

No one is coming to save you. Save yourself.

It's not defeatist to accept reality & push for change in ways that are actually effective, just the opposite.

I think we have to stop pretending votes will change anything. You can't fight criminals via the channels they set up for you to fight them.

Do you really the tyrannical puppets running Australia give a shit about Assange?

Oil & water are the building blocks of life. Oil creates life, decaying lifeforms return to oil, they do not create oil.