Well it’s good complainers like me and you can just go get our own land we own and do whatever we want with no interference.
Lmao.
If you’re in a mood for humor, go read the Finnish Constitution. Just about every article reads: “A Finn has a right to X, except as separately decreed in law”. That is, it says nothing. There’s no rights to take away, you can just write an ordinary law and lo and behold, it’s ok. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.
It is true, growing your own food and/or your community food as awesome, but being poor has disadvantages in our society.
Being poor saps your IQ, because you’re worried all the time: http://phys.org/news/2013-08-poverty-cognitive-ten-iq.html
(In my opinion and experience)
Being poor and working two jobs makes you too tired to help grow food.
Being poor and working two jobs makes your just want to rest when you get home and do nothing.
(/In my opinion and experience)
As for the minimum wage, I think it’s a simple argument. The minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. That’s a problem.
The minimum wage has not kept up with the cost of living in many expensive areas, for example, the San Francisco Bay Area, much less the cost of health care and education.
More complicated arguments show how our tax money goes to welfare programs and specifically people who work and rely on jobs such as at a fast food chains. This could be alleviated with higher wages for all.
But this also shows there are other solutions, such as taxing corporations and the rich, putting this money into education and welfare programs.
At the least, raising the minimum wage is a complicated issue. As many have stated, if people working at fast food chains make as much as I do, I also deserve a raise. This is fair.
As others have stated, a distribution of wealth has already reached an extreme state where even the top 10% have orders of magnitude less money than the top 1%, and the top 1% have orders of magnitude less money than the top 0.1%.
Wealth needs to be redistributed. A complicated and long term argument is occurring over how we can do it.
Taxing corps does jack. Putting it into welfare programs even less. It alleviates immediate suffering, yes, but only prolongs the structural issues behind said suffering in the first place. Welfare programs essentially subsidize poverty, and generally what you subsidize, that you get.
Increasing the minimum wage just drops more and more bottom rungs out of the economic ladder. To illustrate, let’s set the minimum wage to $1000/hour? Supporters? Businessowners employ people if employing said people is profitable for them. The higher you drive the minimum wage and side expenses and risks of work (such as protection against dismissal, all forms of mandatory payments and so on), the less work they decide to do by using people. It’s nasty and cruel, but it’s a fact of life.
Moreover, those welfare and other programs are designed by none other than the government and the lobbyists. Exactly the people who are in bed with the biggest supercorp businessmen. You think said laws will be for the benefit of the small guy? Well, he’ll get the money, sure. And he’ll become dependent on government handouts and turn into a perfect plaything for the people who rule your country.
So, in reality: Like hell they will help the small guy. It is trivial to write a law that on the surface seems to be to the poor guy’s or the consumer’s benefit, but in the end just serves to make smalltime operations impossible and consolidate the market in the hands of the few obscenely rich. Unsurprisingly, people don’t think for themselves and vote those laws into being because they’re marketed by tugging their heartstrings and analysis like this is as cold as can be.
The one way to slowly work out of this mess is to dismantle the obstacles in the way of small, local business and flexible employment, and to be willing to GTFO from the large population centers. Where demand is high, prices go up. If everyone lives in LA, well. Small, local business has a different purpose from a megacorp - a megacorp is built to provide return on investment, a small local outift more to provide a livelihood for the owner and a few employees. They are usually content with a smaller margin because of this.
And please, if you’re in 'murica, advocate secession. The more local the rule, the better. It is relatively easy for local actors to influence local rulers, much more difficult for them to even get into Washington, let alone get their voices heard. For megacorps it’s just the opposite. A million city-states is a hell of an affair to get into your bag, but a couple bigwigs in a central location? Well, sure, that sounds good. Concentrated benefit always outweighs diffused cost (so megacorp benefit, public expense) in public decisionmaking. The more central the decisionmaking, the more this holds true.
A more fragmented array of cities/states also allows people to vote with their feet more easily.
Some reading:
So basically just re-arranging the people on top of the system. Instead of dismantling the system that is dysfunctional to begin with. Gotcha.
Tat for your tit.
Don’t ask about a hypothetical fairy tale, and expect an in depth counter.
No.
Creating a system where there is no top, as seen in the obscene wealth of 10% of the U.S. versus the rest of us.
They didn’t earn that money.
Unless you count murder, slavery, pillaging, and the like as earning.
And if you do, well, you can go fuck yourself. (I know you yourself do not).
The system is a fucking corrupt game.
Stop fucking playing, people.
Fuck’s sake.
You must be down in the ditches if you are seeking life advice from SRK.
There’s more at work in producing high crime rates than low income.
One the biggest variables that influence crime that doesn’t get talked about a lot in the media is wealth disparity. In other words, the bigger the gap between the poor and the rich the higher the crime rates. That’s why many third world countries can be dirt poor but still have a very low crime rate.
If you look across the world this is very consistent, and is theorized to be one of the reasons the US has such a higher crime rate than more impoverished nations. Apparently, people are ok with being poor together as long as their situation is relatively similar to most others around them. But when they see a wide gulf in resources they feel inadequate or entitled, and will be much more likely to step on others to acquire wealth and close that gap.
It’s an unfortunate truth that disparity between the classes is getting wider. Those with resources use that influence to secure more resources, while those with dwindling resources find it ever harder to secure their own.
Get a fucking education. Not my fault you don’t know what a condom is and have 5 kids to feed and are probably a morbidly obese piece of shit. Have some self-responsibility.
I believe every piece of shit I spout. On a side note, Oro is one dumbass nigga. Oro, holla at me when you learn to do a fireball.
It is being redistributed. The white man is taking over. Bend over and take it like a man.
The superiority complex on display by a ton of posters in this thread is akin to the house slaves looking down on the outdoor slaves as though they are somehow significantly worse than you… your still a fucking slave morons. I mean why work together to overcome the exploitation that’s running rampant when you can spend your time dragging the other crabs back into the pot?
In NYC it’s like $5 here. I rather just get a foot long from Subway.
As a house slave, I’m happy to say I haven’t stepped in or shoveled horse shit in I can’t remember how long.
(Edit: We know what it said. I wasn’t comfortable leaving it.)
My shackles are more expensive than your shackles. That means I’m better than you.
By the way, since this is a thread full of intelligent posters, why don’t you guys offer some solutions instead of just saying “do something bro, we getting raped.”
Regulate killed it, sooooo many fucking 50-70 year olds still in the work force working past retirement age plus alot of immigrants coming, whom also include people in that same age category is the reason why sooo many motherfuckers can’t even find a better job if one at all. How many SRKers have we seen talk about being unemployed for over a year and such? Talking about dudes with degrees and shit lol. It’s because the system isn’t working. Too many motherfuckers at the top hording money that should be for retirement, that should be for entry level or service related positions. Of course they make sure their unemployed as children still drive nice cars and run around wearing gucci shit while your ass is waiting on them hand and foot like a shoe shine boy, one that has the title of “manager” no less.
BS in Business Administration here, every entry level job I’ve looked for in my field in NYC wants someone with 5-7+ years of experience with multiple solid references
Plus a masters degree…
Can’t lie, the job market seems to despise young people.